Political Map of the Dominion of Canada, 1897

You might find of interest this long weekend my journal articles and blogposts on the history of British North America.

Confederation and Early Prime Ministers

• Bowden, J.W.J. “The Origins of the Caretaker Convention: When Governor General Lord Aberdeen Dismissed Prime Minister Tupper in 1896.” Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 16, no. 2 (2022): 391-444.
• How Governor General Lord Aberdeen Reinforced the Caretaker Convention and Dismissed Sir Charles Tupper from Office (July 2022)
• 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 Review 8, 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)
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee on The Constitution of the Confederate States of America  (April 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. J.W.J. “Party Discipline and Its Fate: Canada’s Ironclad Controls Are Beginning to Rust.” The Dorchester Review 12, no. 2 (2022): 47-58.
• Bowden, James W.J. “The Senate Was Always Supposed to Be Partisan.” The Dorchester Review 9, 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 Law 14, 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.