I’ve compiled a list of my articles and blogposts pertaining to the history of British North America, which you might find of interest this long weekend.

Confederation and Early Prime Ministers

• Bowden, James W.J. “Well-Earned Obscurity: Review of Barry Wilson’s Sir Mackenzie Bowell: A Prime Minister Forgotten by History.” The Dorchester Review 11, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 75-79.
• Bowden, James W.J. “Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the Kingdom of Canada,” The Dorchester Review 10, no.2 (Winter 2020): 43-58.
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee on Literature as National Identity (December 2020)
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the Vice-Royalty of Canada (July 2020)
• Bowden, James W.J. “George Brown and Canada’s Manifest Destiny.” The Dorchester Review8, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2018): 44-47.
• George Brown and Canada’s Manifest Destiny (2017)

Canada and the United States

• Manifest Destiny Hijacks the Monroe Doctrine: A Bill to Annex Canada (August 2020)
• Canada: A Shining City on a Hill for American Losers (June 2020)
• Canada’s Counter-Manifest Destiny (July 2018)
• 1774: Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of British Americans (September 2011)

Responsible Government and Canadian Political Institutions

• Bowden, James W.J. “The Senate Was Always Supposed to Be Partisan.” The Dorchester Review9, no. 2 (Winter 2019): 55-66.
• Bowden, James W.J. “1841: The Year of Responsible Government?” The Dorchester Review 6, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter 2016): 69-72.
• 1841 or 1848: When Did Responsible Government Begin? (July 2017)
• Alexander Hamilton Recommended Responsible Government in 1788 (August 2012)

Lament for a Dominion

• The Dominion of Canada in 1897 (October 2020)
• You Can Now Watch the Liberals Expunge Dominion Day from Canadian History (April 2017)
• “O Canada” and the Two Solitudes with Notes (September 2017)
• Bowden, James W.J. “‘O Canada’ and the Two Solitudes.” The Dorchester Review7, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2017): 39-44.
• Lament for a Dominion (July 2016)
• Bowden, James W.J. “‘Dominion’: A Latent.”The Dorchester Review 5, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter 2015): 58-64.
• From Dominion Day to Canada Day (July 2014)
• Confederation Day (July 2011)

The Legal-Constitutional Continuity of “Canada”, 1791-present

• “Canada’s Legal-Constitutional Continuity, 1791-1867” Published (January 2021)
• Bowden, J.W.J. “Canada’s Legal-Constitutional Continuity, 1791-1867.” Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law14, no. 3 (2020): 581-623.
• The “1867 as Year Zero” School of Canadian History Meets the War of 1812 (June 2018)
• The “1867 as Year Zero” School of Canadian History (June 2017)
• Let’s Celebrate the Incoherence of “Canada at 150” (June 2017)
• Presentation at the “Canada at 150” Conference (May 2017)
• Who Is Canada’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister? It Depends Upon When “Canada” Began ( July 2016)
• “Canada” Began in 1791: A Critique of the “Canada at 150” Campaign (July 2015)
• Bowden, James W.J. “1791: The Birth of Canada.” The Dorchester Review 5, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2015): 28-32.