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This chapter sets out a brief historical contextualization to the lives of contemporary Canadian Orangemen. The selective account of strands of Orange history serves to situate and contextualize the findings in the subsequent chapters and to give a coherent account of the principal dynamics informing Orangeism in contemporary Canada. This chapter begins with an account of early Orange immigration in Canada and conflicts with the Americans, the French, and the Roman Catholics.This chapter continues with a description of the cultural, political, economic, and religious development of Orangeism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This chapter concludes with an analysis of the post-war decline of Orangeism, based upon the growth of English Canadian nationalism, ethnic diversity, secularism, and the Welfare State.
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McAuley, J.W., Nesbitt-Larking, P. (2018). The Historical Setting. In: Contemporary Orangeism in Canada. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61842-5_2
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