Table of Contents

Introduction to the Wynford Edition
Preface: Upper Canada: The Formative Years
1: Loyalists Make a New Province
2: The Simcoe Years
3: A Frontier Province, 1796-1812
4: Invasion Repulsed, 1812-1815
5: A Briton Banished and a Union Averted
6: The Family Compact and the Alien Question
7: Settlement and Land Policy in the 1820's
8: Economic Growth in the 1820's and 1830's
9: Religion and Education in the 1820's and 1830's
10: The Rise of the Reform Movement
11: Mackenzie and the Grievances of Upper Canada
12: Conservatives and Rebels, 1836-37
13: An End and a Beginning, 1838-1841
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Maps:
The Crown and Clergy Reserves
Upper Canada about 1800
Upper Canada during the War of 1812
Upper Canada about 1841

About the Author

Gerald M. Craig (1916-1988) was a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Minnesota, where he earned his Ph.D. after serving in the Second World War. He is the author of The United States and Canada (1968) and Discontent in Upper Canada (1974), and the editor of the abridged Lord Durham's Report (1963). The Wynford edition is introduced by Jeffrey L. McNairn,
associate professor of history at Queen's University.

Reviews

"A work of first-class scholarship."

--Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science
"The author gives a remarkably clear and readable account. . . . [With] the high standard of historical writing displayed . . . [Craig] has succeeded in making the book a pleasure to read."

--W.H. Parker, Geographical Journal
"Craig's treatment of the history of Upper Canada is a work of sophisticated scholarship . . . Craig is at his best."

--John S. Galbraith, American Historical Review
"He has a keen eye for significant contemporary commentary. . . . Invaluable to Canadian historians."

--Mason Wade, Journal of American History
"A fascinating account of a rich and variegated community. . . . One of the most scholarly, most readable, and best balanced of national histories, and a testimony that Canadian historical studies compare favourably with that of any nation."

--H.S. Ferns, English Historical Review
"Craig has skilfully picked out the threads of continuity to weave a coherent narrative. . . . This is a very readable and persuasive book with carefully articulated and logically developed themes. . . . It is an excellent volume, a significant contribution."

--Donald F. Warner, Journal of Modern History