This site is one of 27 chapters of the Canadian history project, "A Country by Consent / Un pacte, un pays", a project conceived and executed by Bill Dunn and Linda West of Artistic Productions Limited. Using audiovisuals, film and interactivity, while remaining rich in content, this project covers the history of Canada from the 1500s to the present with particular emphasis on our constitutional evolution.

As the introduction to the original project begins:

"Canada is not a country based on ethnic uniformity like most European or Asian countries. It is not a country forged by the fires of civil war or wars of unification. It is a country which has evolved and been held together by the agreement and will of the various groups who have helped build it over the years. It is a country by consent."

This digital collection was produced with support from Canada's Digital Collections Initiative, Industry Canada.

The Internet conversion team:

Team leader: Sebastian Dunn

Team Members:

Kelsey Andrews
Mandy Chabot
Martin Webb


CREDITS for the original project:

Writer: Linda West

Director: Bill Dunn

Producer: Artistic Productions Limited T/A West/Dunn Productions

Software and Technical Director: Bob Monaghan

Programming and Production: Bill Dunn, Linda West
and Bob Monaghan

Graphics: Bill Dunn/Bob Monaghan

Maps: Bob Monaghan

Digital Audio Mixing: Bill Dunn

Copy Editor: Bette Laderoute

Content Specialist: Dr. Peter Baskerville, Chair of History, University of Victoria

Narrator: Roger Tallentire

Resources:

National Archives of Canada:

Roanne Mokhtar, Sheila Mendonca, Sylvia Gervais,

Edna Rodriguez, Caroline Forcier

Additional Photography: Bill Dunn

Video production by: Artistic Productions Ltd.


FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA:

C 733 Charlottetown Conference, September 1864

C 2728 George-Etienne Cartier by W. Notman

C 6166 George-Etienne Cartier in 1867, photo Notman Studios

C 6350 Delegates to the Quebec Conference 1864, Jules I. Livernois

C 6507 Making a splice at Irish end for Atlantic cable 1866

C 6513 Portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald

C 6799 Fathers of Confederation in London, 1866

C 7366 Joseph Howe speaking

C 11334 George Brown

C 11508 Opening of the first parliament of Canada in 1867

C 11711 Confederation conference

C 13943 Painting of the Fathers of Confederation 1867, by C.W. Simpson

C 18737 Fenians defeated at the Battle of Ridgeway 1866

C 21421 Room in which Charlottetown Conference was held, 1864

C 48815 Leonard Tilley, Canadian Illustrated News

C 66507 Landing the transatlantic cable in Heart’s Content, Nfld., 1866

C 70353 Alexander Galt, C.W. Jeffreys

C 70354 George Brown

C 70468 Archibald Lampman

C 73666 Joseph Howe speaking

C 73723 George Brown

C 84799 Macdonald and Cartier in an unidentified group 1860

C 116813 Charles Tupper, portrait photo by Victor A. Long, 1896

From other sources:

Tomb of the Black Prince in England, Photo William Dunn

Bliss Carman, photo by Frances Johnston, Munsey’s Magazine, vol XIII, 1895

Charles G.D. Roberts, photo by Rice, Windsor of Nova Scotia, Munsey’s Magazine

Isabella Valancy Crawford