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Donald Simpson’s study of the black communities in Upper Canada before 1867 contributes to our understanding of how the Underground Railroad (UGRR) undermined slavery in the United States. Based on detailed research, Under the North Star – Black Communities in Upper Canada examines what happened to black refugees once they arrived in Canada. Fugitive slaves and free blacks alike fled to Canada, especially after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and in making this move, they revealed the intense resistance to slavery and racism in North America. Like the maroons, cimarones, palenque, and kilombo in the Caribbean, Hispanic America and Brazil, the black communities of Upper Canada asserted their dignity through their independence, hard work, and persistence in maintaining sanctuaries from slavery. As Simpson demonstrates, many Canadian blacks returned to the US to fight in the Civil War, demonstrating clearly a strong commitment to freedom and justice for all people.The publication of Under the North Star is possible because of the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, and is a publication of the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University.Donald G. Simpson received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in History, and subsequently was involved in Crossroads Africa, and later with the establishment of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).He was the first regional director in West Africa of the Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO). He has been Director of International Business at the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, and in that capacity helped establish the Faculty of Business Administration at Tsinghua University in China. Dr. Simpson has lived and worked in over 70 countries, and has been involved in mentoring numerous develop oriented companies and NGO’s. Since 1991 he has been director of Innovation Expedition, a virtual global network organization ... Read more

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The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious land, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. ... Read more

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Dictionary of Scottish Emigration to Canada before Confederation
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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 979 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Canada dry: temperance crusades before Confederation.
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1998
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 28Issue: 4Page: 557-8

Article Type: Book Review

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