Fight for Canada: 400 Years of Resistance to American Expansion

by David Orchard

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773755691
• ISBN13: 9780773755697
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Stoddart Pub
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 5.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Required Reading

All Canadians should read this book. It will give you a whole new respect for this country and its amazing history. This book is a page turner from the first chapter onward. Most Canadians are likely not aware of many of the seminal events detailed in this important work. History, often a dull subject, is brought to life in this volume. Highly recommended!

Downright inspiring, touching and heartfelt

Mr. Orchard eloquently achieves in this book what is most needed in this nation - he writes about who we are, what we have been through, how close we have come on how many countless occasions to assimilation, and most importantly how with vision and luck, we have survived despite all odds and expectations to the contrary. The Fight for Canada borrows from the rich traditions, perspectives and styles of American works such as JFK's Profiles in Courage and the most honoured of history textbooks available in the English language (indeed, I would argue that Orchard writing about Canada could put Howard Zinn writing about America to shame any day of the week and twice on Sundays). Orchard's range is spectatular for at times it is impossible for the coldest heart not to feel a swell of pride and yet, he can turn around with such ease as to give the most patriotic idealistic heart pains for the tragedies that are Canadian history. We have hanged heroes - make no mistake about it. We have hanged honourable men, we have long forgotten genuine patriots and we have vilified statesmen (among whose ranks I count David Orchard himself) who, in any other country, would be imortalized and bestowed with honours and posthumous recognition such that every elementary school child would know their names and heroic acts. With the Fight for Canada being written in such an easy conversational and yet insightful tone and the subject-matter of which being of the gravest of importance to Canada's future, in my mind it is inexcusable to have not read this book and still count oneself amongst the citizenry of Canada.