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Robert George Cruise

Canada’s Unfinished Century

Canada’s Unfinished Century

Eight volumes tracing how Canada modernised—from Laurier’s long afternoon through war, recovery, language politics, and constitutional fights. Kindle-first, with paperbacks to follow.

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The Eight Volumes

Volume I cover — Laurier’s Long Afternoon (1896–1914)
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Volume I

Laurier’s Long Afternoon

1896–1914

A country in motion: wheat and wire, immigration queues and railway timetables, tariff deals and school controversies. Laurier’s Canada expands at a breathtaking pace, but settlement leaves fractures—over language, labour, race, and land. This opening volume follows the machinery of growth and its costs, from prairie surveys to Parliament’s uneasy compromises.

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Volume II cover — War & Aftermath (1914–1920)
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Volume II

War & Aftermath

1914–1920

Mobilisation flips the switch on an entire economy. Censorship, conscription, convoy lists, and casualty telegrams reach every kitchen and factory. The Armistice ends the shooting but not the strain—Spanish flu, strikes, and a hard peace test the new powers Ottawa claimed in war.

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Volume III cover — Strike & Settlement (1919–1929)
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Volume III

Strike & Settlement

1919–1929

Winnipeg walks out and the country watches. Between Section 98 and the Wheat Pool, Canada argues over who commands the shop floor and the price of grain. Prosperity returns unevenly, masked by credit and radio glow, while the settlement after war hardens into a politics of order.

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Volume IV cover — Hard Years (1929–1939)
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Volume IV

Hard Years

1929–1939

Relief lines, prairie dust, Bennett buggies, and constitutional wrangles over who pays the bill. The Depression redraws family budgets and federal powers, and Canadians experiment—from co-operatives to new parties—to survive a decade that tests every institution.

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Volume V cover — Total War (1939–1945)
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Volume V

Total War

1939–1945

From convoy duty to the home front, ration books to Victory bonds, Canada fights an industrial war. Internment and conscription reopen old wounds; mass production and scientific planning build a different postwar country in the making.

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Volume VI cover — Cold War & the Welfare State (1945–1963)
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Volume VI

Cold War & the Welfare State

1945–1963

Radar lines in the Arctic, mortgages in the suburbs, baby bonuses and hospital insurance: prosperity meets paranoia. Canada learns superpower diplomacy while building a welfare state that will define citizenship for a generation.

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Volume VII cover — Country in Question (1963–1972)
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Volume VII

Country in Question

1963–1972

The Quiet Revolution, a new flag, and the October Crisis. Federalism is stress-tested as Québec’s demands and Canada’s ambitions collide, forcing reforms in language, rights, and the very symbols of the state.

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Volume VIII cover — Languages, Sovereignty, & Constitutional Wars (1972–2000)
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Volume VIII

Languages, Sovereignty, & Constitutional Wars

1972–2000

From the Charter to referendums, patriation to mega-accords, Canada argues the rules of belonging. Courtrooms and kitchen tables become the twin arenas where language policy, Indigenous rights, and national sovereignty are hammered out.

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About Robert George Cruise

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Robert George Cruise is a Canadian writer and researcher based in Ontario with a background in History and Political Science at Lakehead University. His work blends narrative drive with close attention to the machinery of policy, industry, and law—how decisions in Parliament echo through kitchens, farms, and factories.

Canada’s Unfinished Century is an eight-volume, Kindle-first history of Canada from 1896 to 2000. The series follows the long arc from Laurier’s expansion through wartime mobilisation, labour conflict, the building of a welfare state, and the language and constitutional battles that reshaped the late twentieth century.