Author: Donald Akenson
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888629630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Ogle Gowan - the Irish upstart who turned Ontario Orange - was a self-seeking, treacherous scoundrel who brought his tattered reputation to the raw frontier of Upper Canada, and built the powerful Protestant machine that shaped Canadian history for more than one hundred years. Ogle Gowan was a bastard, a bigot and a brawler, yet his silver-tongued oratory and ruthless political skills made him more than a match for his enemies. Whether crossing swords with the fiery William Lyon Mackenzie or pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald he remained, always, slightly larger than life. Don Akenson draws on his talents as both an historian and a novelist to bring the brutal politics of nineteenth-century Ireland and Canada to unforgettable life. In The Orangeman he gives us an extraordinary portrait of a political parvenu whose behaviour was a scandal in his own time, and who left an indelible mark on Canadian history.
Author: Don Akenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces. Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country – the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson’s telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald. One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Author: Charles Thorp (High-Sheriff of Dublin.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament, 1823. House of Commons
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Author: Parliament proc
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the State of Ireland
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Category : Catholic emancipation
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Author: Avery Allyn
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Avery ALLYN
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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