Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 (Great Lakes Books Series)

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Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian element of the Detroit River community within the first half of the nineteenth century. The phrase “Uppermost Canada,” denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (brand new Ontario), used to be applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River right through the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District used to be one of the most in part-judicial, in part-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province used to be divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District used to be potentially probably the most unstable. Regardless of all then again, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.

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