Minor in Canadian Studies - Patriots, Rebels, Refugees: Canada’s roots in the Age of Revolution, 1763 to 1860 CANA 2208   Patriots, Rebels, Refugees: Canada’s roots in the Age of Revolution, 1763 to 1860
CREDIT HOURS: 3
As empires continued their international contest and Britain fought to maintain colonies within North America, old and new inhabitants of what would become Canada also wrestled with questions concerning who would exercise power within their communities and governing bodies. In the process they gave new and, at times, conflicting answers to old questions: what did it mean to be a patriot? who and what were they willing to defend? who and what were they prepared to resist? Immigrants, exiles and the refugees of European and North American wars shaped new homelands, even as the First Nations peoples became refugees within their own lands. In this course we explore the related questions of loyalty and conscience through the diaries and letters of men and women defining their place in a new order.
CROSS-LISTING: HIST 2208.03