Canada and the Canadian Question

Canada and the Canadian Question

Canada and the Canadian Question was a 1891 book written by British-Canadian author Goldwin Smith. The book analyzes 19th Century Canada, with Smith arguing that the country was a profoundly unnatural one that had no real reason to exist. He argued that it would be far more natural for the Canadian confederation and the United States to merge into a single country, as there were few significant differences between the two peoples. He also argued that the Canadian system of government was fundamentally worse than the US model, with Canada being a far more elitist ruled country. Smith's...
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Author:Goldwin Smith
Number of editions:7

Author of Canada and the Canadian Question

Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smith
August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910
Birthplace:Reading

Goldwin Smith was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada. He was born at Reading, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford....
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Additional works by Goldwin Smith
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Is Christianity Dead Or Dying?
Lectures And Essays
Three English Statesmen A Course of Lectures on the Political History of England
Cowper Fiction
False Hopes
Irish History And Irish Character Sociology
Life of Jane Austen Autobiography
England and America
Rational Christianity
The Crimes Of Christiandom - Pamphlet
In Quest of Light Philosophy
Is Religion Worthless?
The Tendencies Of Religious Thought
Guesses At The Riddle Of Existence And Other Essays On Kindred Subjects
Telepathy
Specimens of Greek Tragedy Aeschylus and Sophocles
Rational Religion And Rationalistic Objections Of The Bampton Lectures For 1858
The civil war in America
Irish History And The Irish Question
Loyalty
founder of Christendom
The United States
Oxford and her colleges
Social problems
Essays on questions of the day, political and social
trip to England
Devant le tribunal de l'histoire
reorganization of the University of Oxford
No refuge but in truth
Bay leaves
inaugural lecture
Labour and capital
plea for the abolition of tests in the University of Oxford
European crisis of 1870
selection from Goldwin Smith's correspondence
William Cowper
Quaenam fuerit mulierum apud veteres graecos conditio?
Loyalty, aristocracy and jingoism
moral crusader, William Lloyd Garrison
Lines of religious inquiry
Commonwealth or Empire
Progress or revolution
Great Britain, America and Ireland
Life of Cowper
Woman's place in the state
empire
Keeping Christmas
Temperance versus prohibition
Constitutional and Legal History of England
schism in the Anglo-Saxon race
Goldwin Smith
My memory of Gladstone
Letters from Goldwin Smith to Andrew Carnegie
political destiny of Canada
Municipal government
In the court of history
study of history
letter to a Whig member of the Southern Independence Association
Does the Bible sanction American slavery?
United Kingdom
Conservatism and female suffrage
Reminiscences
Shakespeare, the man
relations between America and England
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