LEADER 03500nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910790441303321 005 20230421053805.0 010 $a1-283-53116-X 010 $a9786613843616 010 $a0-7735-8487-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773584877 035 $a(CKB)2670000000148898 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000742323 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11418398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742323 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10745126 035 $a(PQKB)10625518 035 $a(CEL)435981 035 $a(OCoLC)767732184 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00230216 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332380 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10577966 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL384361 035 $a(OCoLC)923237211 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/kqdmhb 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332380 035 $a(DE-B1597)655600 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773584877 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000148898 100 $a20120719d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA life on the line$b[electronic resource] $eCommander Pierre-E?tienne Fortin and his times /$fW. Brian Stewart 210 $a[Ottawa, Ont.?] $cCarleton University Press$d1997 215 $axi, 218 p. $cill., port 225 1 $aCarleton library series ;$vv. 188 311 0 $a0-88629-315-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aI The Commander and La Canadienne - II Fortins Ancestors and his Youth -- III Fighting Plagues and Mobs -- IV The Commander and His Domain -- V Sellout of the Gulf -- VI Magistrate and Policeman -- VII A Company Man? -- VIII The War of the Candle Snuffers -- IX Naturalist and Conservationist -- X Conservation versus Jobs -- XI "Our Rivers Taken from Us" -- XII Fighting with the Bureaucrats -- XIII Fortin, the Conservatives, and Confederation -- XIV A Constituency Man -- XV Final Days. 330 $aPierre-Étienne Fortin led a life and plied a career at the heart of Canada's early history. He was an adventurer, an amateur scientist, an early (if ambiguous) conservationist and a Conservative politician from 1867 to 1888. He was a doctor on Grosse-Île amid the horrors of the 1847 typhus epidemic, led a mounted police troop during the infamous Montreal riots of 1849 and, as commander of the armed schooner La Canadienne, policed the Gulf of St. Lawrence from 1852 to 1867, when thousands of New Englanders and Nova Scotians swarmed over the fishing grounds. His official life as magistrate and mid-level bureaucrat often exemplified tensions of early nationhood: those between elites and colonists; and those arising from the nationalistic impulse to impose law and order on the wilderness. The interests, issues and sympathies at work on Fortin in the founding period remain compelling today: job creation versus environmental protection, free trade with the U.S., the exploitation of Canadian fisheries, relations with aboriginal peoples, and the political status of Quebec within confederation. 410 0$aCarleton library series ;$v188. 606 $aPoliticians$zQuebec (Province)$vBiography 607 $aQue?bec (Province)$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPoliticians 676 $a971.4/03/092 700 $aStewart$b W. Brian$01488859 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790441303321 996 $aA life on the line$93709269 997 $aUNINA