Interpreting Canada's Past A Post-Confederation Reader

by Bumsted, J. M.; Kuffert, Len

• ISBN13: 9780195420180
• ISBN10: 0195420187
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Designed to accompany J.M. Bumsted's introductory history texts (the two-volume Peoples of Canada and the single-volume History of the Canadian Peoples), Interpreting Canada's Past is a collection of readings that now includes primary documents as well as previously published scholarly articles.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
0NE ESTABLISHING A NEW ORDER?	1	(36)
Introduction	1	(1)
Primary documents
1 'Convention at Yale'
ALEXANDER BEGG	2	(2)
2 'Articles of a Treaty made and concluded near Carlton...' (Treaty No. 6, 1876)	4	(5)
Historical interpretations
3 From John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain
DONALD CREIGHTON	9	(3)
4 From Visions of Order
KEITH WALDEN	12	(9)
5 From 'Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900'
JEAN BARMAN	21	(16)
TWO REBELS AND REACTIONARIES	37	(40)
Introduction	37	(1)
Primary documents
1 From Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
THERESA DELANEY AND THERESA GOWANLOCK	38	(9)
2 'Speech of Mr. D'Alton McCarthy, M.P., on the French Language in the North-West, 18 February 1890'	47	(6)
Historical interpretations
3 From The Birth of Western Canada
G.F.G. STANLEY	53	(4)
4 From Louis 'David' Riel
THOMAS FLANAGAN	57	(8)
5 From Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
BLAIR STONECHILD and BILL WAISER	65	(12)
THREE IMPERIALISM AND ITS CRITICS	77	(48)
Introduction	77	(1)
Primary documents
1 From Canada and the Canadian Question
GOLDWIN SMITH	78	(8)
2 From The Struggle for Imperial Unity
GEORGE T. DENISON	86	(4)
Historical interpretations
3 From The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914
CARL BERGER	90	(10)
4 From "Of Slender Frame and Delicate Appearance": The Placing of Laura Secord in the Narratives of Canadian Loyalist History'
CECILIA MORGAN	100	(10)
5 From 'Idealized Middle-Class Sport for a Young Nation: Lacrosse in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Towns, 1871-1891'
NANCY B. BOUCHIER	110	(15)
F0UR THE MAKING OF THE CANADIAN WORKING CLASS	125	(58)
Introduction	125	(1)
Primary documents
1 To Knights of Labour' [Welland, Ontario], in Dominion Election Campaign of 1886: Hon. Edward Blake's Speeches
EDWARD BLAKE	126	(3)
2 From The Conditions of Female Labour in Ontario
JEAN THOMSON SCOTT	129	(8)
Historical interpretations
3 From 'The National Policy, the Workingman, and Proletarian Ideas in Victorian Canada'
F.W. WATT	137	(13)
4 From 'Joe Beef of Montreal: Working-Class Culture and the Tavern, 1869-1889'
PETER DELOTTINVILLE	150	(13)
5 From 'The Craftmen's Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, the Early Years'
CRAIG HERON AND STEVE PENFOLD	163	(20)
FIVE THE AGE OF REFORM	183	(42)
Introduction	183	(1)
Primary documents
1 From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
STEPHEN LEACOCK	184	(7)
2 From The Black Candle
EMILY MURPHY	191	(5)
Historical interpretations
3 From 'Salem Bland: The Young Preacher'
RICHARD ALLEN	196	(10)
4 From The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925
MARIANA VALVERDE	206	(5)
5 From 'Unmaking Manly Smokes: Church, State, Governance, and the First Anti-Smoking Campaigns in Montreal, 1892-1914'
JARETT RUDY	211	(14)
SIX WORLD WAR I	225	(50)
Introduction	225	(1)
Primary documents
1 From 'The duty of Canada at the present hour: An address meant to be delivered at Ottawa in November and December 1914, but twice suppressed in the name of "Loyalty and Patriotism"'
HENRI BOURASSA	226	(7)
2 'Canada will answer the call: Sir Robert Borden's inspiring war-message to the Canadian people: speech delivered at Toronto, Dec. 5th, 1914'
ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN	233	(4)
Historical interpretations
3 From 'Race and Recruitment in World War I: Enlistment of Visible Minorities in the Canadian Expeditionary Force'
JAMES W. ST G. WALKER	237	(17)
4 From -Sharing the Halo": Social and Professional Tensions in the Work of World War I Canadian Volunteer Nurses'
LINDA J. QUINEY	254	(11)
5 From "'More a Medicine Than a Beverage": "Demon Rum" and the Canadian Trench Soldier of the First World War'
TIM COOK	265	(10)
SEVEN CANADA ON THE AIR	275	(38)
Introduction	275	(1)
Primary documents
1 From Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting	276	(8)
2 From 'How Radio Wins Friends and Influences People'
FRANK CHAMBERLAIN	284	(1)
Historical interpretations
3 From The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada
E. AUSTIN WEIR	285	(7)
4 From Listening In: The First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting
MARY VIPOND	292	(8)
5 From 'Constructing Community and Consumers: Joseph R. Smallwood's Barrelman Radio Program'
JEFF A. WEBB	300	(13)
EIGHT THE WELFARE STATE	313	(44)
Introduction	313	(2)
Primary documents
1 From Social Security and Reconstruction in Canada
HARRY CASSIDY	315	(7)
2 From The Dawn of Ampler Life
CHARLOTTE WHITTON	322	(8)
Historical interpretations
3 From 'The Welfare State North: Early Developments in Inuit Income Security'
P.G. NIXON	330	(7)
4 From 'We who have wallowed in the mud of Flanders: First World War Veterans, Unemployment, and the Development of Social Welfare in Canada, 1929-1939'
LARA CAMPBELL	337	(13)
5 From 'The Endangered Family'
NANCY CHRISTIE	350	(7)
NINE HER SECOND WORLD WAR	357	(42)
Introduction	357	(1)
Primary documents
1 'It's a Woman's War'
MATTIE ROTENBERG	358	(3)
2 'Has This Structure of a Million Women Post-War Potentialities?'
LILLIAN D. MILLAR	361	(3)
Historical interpretations
3 From 'The Necessity of Sacrifice for the Nation at War: Women's Labour Force Participation, 1939-1946'
DIANE G. FORESTELL	364	(7)
4 From 'The Veterans Charter and Canadian Women Veterans of the Second World War'
PETER NEARY AND SHAUN BROWN	371	(15)
5 From 'Counting the Costs of Living: Gender, Citizenship, and a Politics of Prices in 1940s Montreal'
MAGDA FAHRNI	386	(13)
TEN BRING BACK THE 1950's?	399	(48)
Introduction	399	(1)
Primary documents
1 'Marriage Blueprints for Today's Youth'
MARGARET NESS	400	(4)
2 From Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life
JOHN R. SEELEY, R. ALEXANDER SIM, and E.W. LOOSLEY	404	(11)
Historical interpretations
3 From 'Student Leaders at the University of Montreal during the Early 1950's: What Did Catholics Want?'
NICOLE NEATBY	415	(9)
4 From 'Disciplining Children, Disciplining Parents: The Nature and Meaning of Advice to Canadian Parents, 1945-1955'
MONA GLEASON	424	(12)
5 From 'Finding a Place for Father: Selling the Barbecue in Post-war Canada'
CHRIS DUMMITT	436	(11)
ELEVEN QUEBEC AND THE 1960's	447	(44)
Introduction	447	(2)
Primary documents
1 From Bilingualism and Biculturalism: An Abridged Version of the Royal Commission Report
HUGH R. INNIS	449	(7)
2 'Social Unrest, Social Class and Quebec's Bureaucratic Revolution'
HUBERT GUINDON	456	(7)
Historical interpretations
3 From The Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec
SUSAN MANN TROFIMENKOFF	463	(9)
4 'Has the Quiet Revolution Finally Ended?'
RAMSAY COOK	472	(7)
5 'Why The Quiet Revolution Was "Quiet": The Catholic Church's Reaction to the Secularization of Nationalism in Quebec After 1960'
DAVID SELJAK	479	(12)
TWELVE FIRST NATIONS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES	491	(48)
Introduction	491	(2)
Primary documents
1 From Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy, 1969	493	(7)
2 From Citizens Plus
THE INDIAN CHIEFS OF ALBERTA	500	(4)
Historical interpretations
3 From Making Canadian Indian Policy: The Hidden Agenda 1968-70
SALLY M. WEAVER	504	(7)
4 From 'Oil and Lubicons Don't Mix: A Land Claim in Northern Alberta in Historical Perspective'
DARLENE ABREU FERREIRA	511	(16)
5 From 'Aboriginal Education at the Crossroads: The Legacy of Residential Schools and the Way Ahead'
JEAN BARMAN	527	(12)
THIRTEEN CANADA IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD	539
Introduction	539	(2)
Primary documents
1 From 'Oh Say, Can You See?'
FRANK PEERS	541	(11)
2 'The Free Trade Agreement Fails Canada'
MAUDE BARLOW	552	(3)
Historical interpretations
3 'The Rhetoric of Culture: Some Notes on Magazines, Canadian Culture and Globalization'
IMRE SZEMAN	555	(12)
4 From 'Repoliticizing Globalization in Canada: From the MAI to Seattle'
ELIZABETH SMYTHE	567	(13)
5 From 'Being French in North America: Quebec Culture and Globalization'
DIANE PACOM	580