The Canadian Crucible
Manitoba's Role in Canada's Great Divide
By Frances Russell

Canada's great divide? One guess ­ language. Anglophone political journalist Frances Russell explores the roots of this rift and how this single issue has defined the Canada and Canadian identity. Manitoba's repeated repudiation of its original bilingual-bicultural status - in 1870-72, in 1890, in 1916 and during the language crisis of 1983-84 - changed the course of Canadian history. Stopping westward migration from Quebec in its tracks, it left a wound that has never healed between French and English Canadians, between East and West, between the Old Canada and the New. A passionate expose, with two insightful chapters on Louis Riel to forever clear up this confusing time in history.

Softcover
548 pp
6 x 9
softcover: $19.95   ISBN: 1-896150-28-4

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