Uppermost Canada the Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850
- List Price: $44.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/2002
The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory aristocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District, with its close interpersonal and commercial links at the easiest crossing in the Great Lakes system, endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.
Uppermost Canada will be invaluable to students of regional and Great Lakes history, international relations, and American and Canadian studies.
