The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada

The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada
Author: Elizabeth Jane Errington
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773512047

It has generally been assumed that the political and social ideas of early Upper Canadians rested firmly on veneration of eighteenth-century British conservative values and unequivocal rejection of all things American. Jane Errington's examination of the attitudes and beliefs of the Upper Canadian elite between 1784 and 1828, as seen through their private papers, public records, and the newspapers of the time, suggests that this view is far too simplistic.