From Arm's Length to Hands-On —— The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940

----- 从手臂的长度到动手：安大略省公共服务的形成年代，1867-1940

ISBN: 9781487599478 出版年：2019 页码：312 Hodgetts, John University of Toronto Press

Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada. Hodgetts has analysed carefully the factors that led to the gradual enlargement of the government's functions and the progressive tightening of the exercise of its authority.