LEADER 04236nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910808571403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-85053-9 010 $a9786612850530 010 $a0-7735-6071-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773560710 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713513 035 $a(OCoLC)243600750 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10175979 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11303207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477457 035 $a(PQKB)10898641 035 $a(CaPaEBR)403901 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00204557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10178230 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285053 035 $a(OCoLC)923231229 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/txz1zj 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/403901 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331581 035 $a(DE-B1597)656947 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773560710 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3248659 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713513 100 $a20790716d1979 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe maritime rights movement, 1919-1927 $ea study in Canadian regionalism /$fErnest R. Forbes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d1979 215 $a1 online resource (x, 246 pages) $cmap 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis, Queen's University, 1975. 311 0 $a0-7735-0330-7 311 0 $a0-7735-0321-8 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tDivision in Diversity -- $tThe Birth of a Region -- $tCrosscurrents: The Farmer-Labour Movement -- $tThe Impact of Depression -- $tThe Campaign Emerges -- $tA National Appeal -- $tThe Politics of Maritime Rights -- $tDefusing the Agitation -- $tRaking the Embers -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibilography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book provides the first full account of a major social and political movement of the interwar years in Canada: the campaign for "Maritime Rights" which erupted in the Atlantic provinces after World War I. Ernest R. Forbes traces the history of the movement from its origins in the decline in relative status and influence of the Maritimes that accompanied the rise of the West and the growing dominance of the Central Canadian metropolises. Maritimers saw their political influence reduced, the underpinnings of their economy - especially in the critical areas of tariffs, freight rates, and subsidies - whittled away, and Canada defined in terms that seemed to exclude them. Adopting a strategy characteristic of the progressive movements of the period, they attempted through organization and agitation to restore their position. Farmers, fishermen, manufacturers, and organized labour articulated their demands through the provincial press, boards of trade, union locals, educational conferences, and mass delegations to Ottawa. Professor Forbes challenges traditional assumptions in his emphasis upon a vigorous Maritime progressivism that transcended party affiliations. All the political parties tried to use the protest movement, but none had created it, nor had it a specific founder or leader. The agitiation was in fact a spontaneous expression of the economic and social frustrations of the Maritime people. Although their efforts were largely defeated by the conflicting interests of stronger regions, and by the King government's adoitness in defusing protest through a policy of study and delay, the author believes that the aroused Maritimers had succeeded in establishing their difficulties in the public's mind as a national problem. 606 $aRegionalism$zCanada 607 $aMaritime Provinces$xPolitics and government 615 0$aRegionalism 676 $a320.9/71 676 $a971.5/03 700 $aForbes$b Ernest R$01611303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808571403321 996 $aThe maritime rights movement, 1919-1927$93939506 997 $aUNINA