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The birth of western Canada: A history of the Riel Rebellions

Stanley, George Francis Gilman: 1907-2002. Born in Calgary; educated at University of Alberta; Rhodes scholar; doctoral thesis at Oxford, "The Second Riel Rebellion in Canada, 1870-1886"; professor of history at Mount Allison, 1936-1946 (including leave as Army officer); first chair of Canadian history at University of British Columbia, 1947; at Royal Military College, Kingston, 1949-1969; professor of Canadian studies, Mount Allison University, 1969-1975; retired to write full time. // First published June, 1936. Also published, 2nd edition, with maps by Courtney C.J. Bond, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1970 & 1975 (xiv, 475p.); with new introduction by Thomas Flanagan, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992 (xxviii, 475p.). A scholarly and objective study of two controversial events in Canada's political history. Considered notable because Stanley saw events as a cultural, rather than a racial or linguistic conflict.

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