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A Life on the Line : Commander Pierre-Etienne Fortin and his Times

15 May 1997

Pierre-Étienne Fortin led a life and plied a career at the heart of Canada's early history. He was an adventurer, an amateur scientist, an early (if ambiguous) conservationist and a Conservative politician from 1867 to 1888. He was a doctor on Grosse-Île amid the horrors of the 1847 typhus epidemic, led a mounted police troop during the infamous Montreal riots of 1849 and, as commander of the armed schooner La Canadienne, policed the Gulf of St. Lawrence from 1852 to 1867, when thousands of New Englanders and Nova Scotians swarmed over the fishing grounds. His official life as magistrate and mid-level bureaucrat often exemplified tensions of early nationhood: those between elites and colonists; and those arising from the nationalistic impulse to impose law and order on the wilderness. The interests, issues and sympathies at work on Fortin in the founding period remain compelling today: job creation versus environmental protection, free trade with the U.S., the exploitation of Canadian fisheries, relations with aboriginal peoples, and the political status of Quebec within confederation.
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Authors

Brian Stewart

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
971.4/03/092
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
21
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-qu
ISBN
0886293154 9780773584877
LCCN
F1053.F67
LCCN Item number
S74 1997eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xi, 218 p.)
Published in
Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00230216 (OCoLC)767732184 (CaOOCEL)435981
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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