During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitt

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In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or used Canada's Confederation in 1867 as a model to be adapted or avoided, Globalizing Confederation

Between 1849 and 1930, schooling in what is now British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. Lessons in Legitimacy examines gover