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Becoming Prominent: Regional Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841
ISBN: 9780773561571
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Ontario -- History -- 1791–1841 -- Biography; Ontario -- Biography; Politicians -- Ontario -- Biography;

Political, social and economic advancement in Upper Canada were often linked to characteristics other than merit. Through a collective biographical study of the social and economic background of the 283 men who were elected to the House of Assembly of Up

J.K. Johnson (1930-2018) was a professor emeritus of history at Carleton University and the author of Becoming Prominent: Regional Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841.J.K. Johnson (1930-2018) was a professor emeritus of history at Carleton University and the author of In Duty Bound: Men, Women, and the State in Upper Canada, 1783-1841.