Portraits of British Americans (Vol. 1-3)
Biographical Sketches of Pre-Confederation Canadian Statesmen, Clergy, Lawyers, and Public MenBy Fennings Taylor
Length41h 14m
About this audiobook
Fennings Taylor's *Portraits of British Americans* (Vols. 1–3) is a substantial collection of biographical sketches devoted to prominent figures in nineteenth-century British North America. Combining political biography, commemorative portraiture, and cultural history, the work presents its subjects as exemplary participants in the making of colonial society. Taylor's prose is formal, admiring, and richly contextual, interweaving personal character with public achievement, institutional development, and imperial allegiance. Read within the Victorian tradition of engraved "portrait" volumes and national biography, the set offers both a gallery of individuals and a revealing account of how British American identity was narrated before and around Confederation. Taylor was himself well placed to undertake such a project. A British-born Canadian civil servant, writer, and journalist, he belonged to the educated administrative culture whose members observed—and helped shape—the political and cultural consolidation of the colonies. His professional proximity to public institutions, together with his investment in British connection and Canadian achievement, informed the book's selection of subjects and its strongly laudatory tone. The volumes therefore reflect not only their sitters but also the aspirations, hierarchies, and historical assumptions of the colonial elite that Taylor represented. This set is recommended to readers interested in Canadian political history, nineteenth-century biography, imperial culture, and the intellectual background to Confederation. Its portraits remain valuable as firsthand evidence of Victorian historical memory, while Taylor's polished style makes the work accessible as literary as well as documentary reading. Scholars will find abundant material for studying identity, reputation, and colonial nation-building; general readers will encounter an engaging cast of personalities whose careers illuminate the formation of modern Canada.
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length41 hrs 14 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
2Volume 1
3Biographical Sketches
4His Excellency the Right Honorable Viscount Monck, Governor General of Canada
5The Most Reverend Francis Fulford, D.D., The Lord Bishop of Montreal, and Metropolitan
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6The Honorable John A. MacDonald, Attorney-General for Canada West
7The Honorable Samuel Leonard Tilley, New Brunswick
8The Honorable Sir Louis Hypolite Lafontaine, Bart., Chief Justice of Lower Canada
9His Excellency Sir William Fenwick Williams, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America
10Colonel the Honorable Sir Etienne Pascal Tache, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty
11The Reverend Alexander Mathieson, D.D., of Montreal
12The Honorable John Sandfield MacDonald
13The Honorable George Moffatt
14The Honorable George Etienne Cartier, Attorney-General for Lower Canada
15J. William Dawson, Ll.D., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of McGill College, Montreal
16The Honorable James Ferrier of Montreal
17The Right Reverend Jean Jacques Lartigue, First Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal
18The Honorable William Morris
19Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell, C.B., Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
20The Honorable Edward Bowen, Chief Justice of the Superior Court for Lower Canada
21The Honorable Antoine Aimé Dorion, M.P.P., of Montreal
22The Honorable Alexander Campbell, M.L.C., of Kingston, Canada
23The Reverend William Leitch, D.D., Late Principal of Queen’s College, Kingston
24James Hodges, Esquire, Builder of the Victoria Bridge
25The Honorable Joseph Howe, of Halifax, Nova Scotia
26The Honorable Réné Edouard Caron, of Quebec
27Lieutenant Colonel Irvine, Provincial Aide-de-Camp
28The Honorable Thomas Talbot, Founder of the Talbot Settlement, Upper Canada
29Charles John Brydges, Esq., Managing Director of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
30The Right Reverend John Thomas Mullock, D.D. Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Johns, Newfoundland
31The Honorable Isaac Buchanan, Hamilton, Canada West
32The Honorable Joseph Cauchon, of Quebec
33Samuel Wentworth Monk, Esq., Late Prothonotary of the Court of Queen’s Bench, Montreal
34Volume 2
35The Honorable Thomas d'Arcy McGee of Montreal
36The Hon. Sir Narcisse Fortunat Belleau. Quebec
37Lieutenant-Colonel William Rhodes Quebec
38The Very Reverend John Bethune, D.D., Dean of Montreal
39The Honorable Adam Fergusson, of Woodhill
40His Excellency Sir John Michel, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America
41The Honorable Alexander Tilloch Galt, Minister of Finance for Canada
42The Reverend Henry Wilkes, D.D., Minister of the First Congregational Church, Montreal
43Colonel the Honorable John Hamilton Gray, Prince Edward Island
44Lieut. Colonel Joseph Bouchette, Surveyor General of Lower Canada
45Sir William Edmond Logan, Ll.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Director of the Geological Survey of Canada
46The Hon. Fred. Bowker Terrington Carter. Speaker of the House of Assembly, Newfoundland
47The Very Rev. Charles Felix Cazeau, Vicar-General, Quebec
48Colonel the Honorable John Prince, Judge of the District of Algoma
49Sir Dominick Daly, Governor-in-Chief of South Australia
50Honorable George Brown, M.P.P.
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