Three Weeks in Quebec City pdf

Christopher Moore è l'autore di quindici romanzi, tra cui i bestseller internazionali Lamb, A Dirty Job e You Suck. Il suo ultimo romanzo, Secondhand Souls, uscirà nell'agosto 2015.

Chris è nato a Toledo, Ohio, ed è cresciuto a Mansfield, Ohio. Suo padre era un poliziotto autostradale e sua madre vendeva grandi elettrodomestici in un grande magazzino. Ha frequentato la Ohio State University e il Brooks Institute of Photography a Santa Barbara. Si è trasferito in California all'età di 19 anni e ha vissuto sulla costa centrale fino al 2003, quando si è trasferito alle Hawaii.

Prima di pubblicare il suo primo romanzo, Practical Demonkeeping nel 1992, ha lavorato come roofer, un impiegato di drogheria, un revisore dei conti di un hotel e un broker assicurativo, un cameriere, un fotografo e un DJ rock and roll. Chris ha attinto a tutte queste esperienze lavorative per creare i personaggi dei suoi libri. Quando non scrive, Chris ama il kayak oceanico, le immersioni subacquee, la fotografia e la pittura con acrilici e oli. Vive a San Francisco.

Three Weeks in Quebec City pdf da Christopher Moore

In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and steamships spurred visions of a continent-spanning new nation.  

Federation, in principle, had been agreed on at the Charlottetown conference, but now it was time to debate the difficult issues of how a new nation would be formed. The delegates included John A. Macdonald, George Etienne-Cartier, and George Brown. Historian Christopher Moore demonstrates that Macdonald, the future prime minister, surprisingly was not the most significant player here, and Canada could have become a very different place.

 

The significance of this conference is played out in Canadian news each day. The main point of contention at the time was the issue of power—a strong federal body versus stronger provincial rights. Because of this conference, we have an elected House of Commons, an appointed Senate, a federal Parliament, and provincial legislatures. We have what amounts to a Canadian system of checks and balances. Did it work then, and does it work now?