The Maritime Rights Movement, 1919-1927: A Study in Canadian Regionalism

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1979 - 246 pages
Maritimers saw their political influence reduced, the underpinnings of their economy - especially in the critical areas of tariffs, freight rates, and subsidies - whittled away, and Canada defined in terms that seemed to exclude them. Adopting a strategy characteristic of the progressive movements of the period, they attempted through organization and agitation to restore their position. Farmers, fishermen, manufacturers, and organized labour articulated their demands through the provincial press, boards of trade, union locals, educational conferences, and mass delegations to Ottawa. Professor Forbes challenges traditional assumptions in his emphasis upon a vigorous Maritime progressivism that transcended party affiliations. All the political parties tried to use the protest movement, but none had created it, nor had it a specific founder or leader. The agitiation was in fact a spontaneous expression of the economic and social frustrations of the Maritime people. Although their efforts were largely defeated by the conflicting interests of stronger regions, and by the King government's adoitness in defusing protest through a policy of study and delay, the author believes that the aroused Maritimers had succeeded in establishing their difficulties in the public's mind as a national problem.
 

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Division in Diversity
1
The Birth of a Region
13
The FarmerLabour Movement
38
FOUR
49
FIVE
55
The Campaign Emerges
73
SEVEN
102
Defusing the Agitation
158
NINE
182
Abbreviations
193
Bibliography
215
Index
238
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