Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine And Robert Baldwin

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Penquin
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 2253 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page) Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected citizens instead of a colonial governor. But it was during the Great Ministry of 1848 - 51 that the two politicians implemented laws that created a more equitable country. They revamped judicial institutions, created a public education system, made bilingualism official, designed a network of public roads, began a public postal system, and reformed municipal governance. Faced with opposition, and even violence, the two men - polar opposites in temperament - united behind a set of principles and programs that formed modern Canada. Writing with verve and deep conviction, Saul restores these two extraordinary Canadians to rightful prominence.

ISBN: 9780670067329