Choosing Canada's Capital: Conflict Resolution in a Parliamentary System

Dennis Blake is a high-school history teacher with the Halton Board of
Education.

A political geographer, Knight evidences a love of history and political
culture in this chronicle of the 1860 selection of Ottawa as the seat of
government for the United Provinces. In this second and expanded edition
of his work, history unfolds in a collection of documentary excerpts
from the various forums of political debate in the mid-century period.
With the addition of archive photographs and valuable author-created
maps, Knight is able to paint a series of wonderfully contextual
introductions for the historical canvas that was the Ottawa debate.

Choosing Canada’s Capital is a work for both the generalist and
specialist that records a true wealth of contemporary opinion on the
musical-chairs story of the Canadas’ seats of government. As a work of
selected readings, this book offers a wide range of possible pedagogical
applications for the lecture hall and seminar classroom. A formal
bibliography would have been welcome, but this may be a pedantic desire,
since the Index to the Documents performs this service, albeit in a
chronological manner.