Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride's British Columbia - Hardcover

Roy, Patricia E.

9780774823883: Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride's British Columbia

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ISBN 10: 0774823887 ISBN 13: 9780774823883

Publisher: UBC Press, 2012

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Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association.

Devout imperialist, loyal Canadian, and dedicated British Columbian, Richard McBride served as British Columbia's premier from 1903 to 1915. During this period of great economic growth, McBride brought order to the legislature, encouraged the development of natural resources by facilitating new railways, championed the province in its quarrels with Ottawa, and promoted Canada’s links with the British Empire. His vision of a modern, industrialized, and wealthy province helped shape its institutions and its place in the British world. Boundless Optimism brings McBride’s political career into focus, chronicling his many accomplishments and putting his activities into historical context without neglecting the downsides of optimism.

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Boundless Optimism sheds new light on important aspects of British Columbia’s past. In telling the story of Richard McBride, a compelling personality and one of the longest-serving premiers, it offers valuable new insights into British Columbia’s history and into the origins of party politics in the province. Author: David J. Mitchell, President and CEO, Canada’s Public Policy Forum

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Patricia E. Roy, professor emerita of history at the University of Victoria, is the author of many books on the history of British Columbia, including The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67; The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41; and A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914.

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