Duty to Dissent: Henri Bourassa and the First World War

by Geoff Keelan

Book Overview

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa - fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec - took centre stage in the national debates on Canada's participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada's place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa's voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassa's evolving perspective on the war's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774838833
• ISBN13: 9780774838832
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 284 Pages