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The Tragedy of the 1880s
From: Colonialism and Capitalism Canada's Origins 1500-1890
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This chapter discusses the state of Canada in the 1880s. Though still a British colony, the country had emerged as a powerful industrial capitalist state yet was deeply fragmented along economic, racial, political and cultural lines. The promise of the working class Great Upheaval of 1886 was not realized as anti-colonial and anti-capitalist forces failed to unite, ensuring the colonial and capitalist forces that underpinned the country’s beginnings continued into the twentieth century.
Contributors
Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left. Among his many books are Canada’s 1960s and the co-authored, Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History. He lives in Warkworth, Ontario.
