ABSTRACT This article recovers a long-forgotten tradition of Canadian political thought – a Liberal idea of nation-building premised on the expansion and consolidation of an Upper Canadian empire. Combining a staunch imperial ‘Britishness’ with visions of western expansion and colonisation, Liberal politicians and intellectuals from the province of Ontario conceived Canada’s vast North-West territory as an Upper Canadian colony – an Anglo-Saxon settler empire that linked Ontario and its metropolis, Toronto, by rail and settlement to the Prairie West, British Columbia, and beyond to Britain’s Pacific empire. Between 1860 and 1914, this vision of western expansion underpinned Canada’s political and economic development, bringing ‘greater Ontario’ Liberals into contact with a series of racial others who were either incorporated into the Dominion or else disenfranchised and excluded.

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上加拿大帝国：1860 年代至 1914 年英属北美的自由主义、种族和西方扩张

摘要本文恢复了加拿大政治思想的一个长期被遗忘的传统——一种以上加拿大帝国的扩张和巩固为前提的自由主义国家建设思想。安大略省的自由派政治家和知识分子将坚定的帝国“英国性”与西方扩张和殖民化的愿景相结合，将加拿大广阔的西北地区视为上加拿大殖民地——一个连接安大略及其大都市的盎格鲁-撒克逊定居者帝国，多伦多，通过铁路和定居点到达草原西部、不列颠哥伦比亚省，以及更远的英国太平洋帝国。1860 年至 1914 年间，这种西部扩张的愿景支撑了加拿大的政治和经济发展，