Canada, a people's history. Set 3 Taking the west (1873 to 1896)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Added Author).

Summary: The 1870s and 1880s are a time of trial for the young Dominion of Canada. The country's first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, faces economic depression in the factories of the east and a new revolt in the west, led by his old nemesis, Louis Riel. The suppression of the Northwest Rebellion and Macdonald's single-minded insistence that the French-speaking Catholic Riel must hang for treason threatens to tear apart the fragile bond between Quebec and English Canada. During this same era, debates over provincial powers and the Manitoba Schools Question rage, and a dream is realized: the Canadian Pacific Railway links the country and opens the prairies to new floods of immigration.

Record details

ISBN: 9781552599549
Physical Description: videorecording
videorecording
videocassette
4 videodiscs (480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Widescreen letterbox format.
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, c2000-2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Taking the West (1873 to 1896), The great transformation (1896 to 1913), Ordeal by Fire (1915 to 1929), Hard Times (1929 to 1940). Catalogued from container.
System Details Note:	VHS.
Language Note:	Closed-captioned.