The Maritime Rights Movement, 1919-1927: A Study in Canadian RegionalismMcGill-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. |
Table des matières
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 |
238 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Maritime Rights Movement, 1919-1927: A Study in Canadian Regionalism Ernest R. Forbes Aucun aperçu disponible - 1979 |
Maritime Rights Movement/Univ Microfilm: A Study in Canadian Regionalism Ernest R. Forbes Aucun aperçu disponible - 1979 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Acadian agitation APTC Arthur Meighen Besco Board of Railway Board of Trade Borden Brunswick cabinet campaign Canada Canadian National Railways Canadian ports candidates Cape Breton cent Central Canadian coal and steel Commission on Maritime Confederation Congdon Papers Conservative Debates delegates demands Dominion economic election F. B. McCurdy farmer-labour federal government fisheries freight rates grievances H. S. Congdon Halifax and Saint Halifax Herald ibid industry Intercolonial interests issue labour leaders Liberal Logan Mackenzie King manufacturing Maritime Board Maritime Claims Maritime ports Maritime problems Maritime Provinces Maritime Rights movement markets Meighen Papers minister Moncton Montreal Morning Chronicle Nova Scotia Ontario organization Ottawa PANS party political Prairie Premier Prince Edward Island production Public Archives Quebec Railway Commissioners reduction regional Report Royal Commission Saint John Board Sclanders Sept subsidies tariff Telegraph-Journal tion Toronto union United Farmers Veniot vote W. H. Dennis Western workers