Canadian History: Post-Confederation – 2nd Edition was written by John Douglas Belshaw. This book is a part of the B.C. Open Textbook Project. This book is the second in a two-part collection by this author; also see Canadian History: Pre-Confederation – 2nd Edition (also in its second edition).

Starting in March 2020, various edits were made to the textbook. These stop well short of an overhaul. This is not a revised edition so much as a corrected edition. The changes are recorded throughout the Pressbooks document and can be provided on request. Possibly the most significant and wide-reaching change recognizes that the term “Indigenous” has superseded “Aboriginal.” I would like to acknowledge the contributions to this process made by Bonnie Huskins, Alan Gordon, Howard Hisdal, Susan Ladner, Christine Mould, Benjamin Vaughan, and Sébastien Ragache.

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