Interpreting Canada's Past A Post-Confederation Reader

by Bumsted, J.M.; Kuffert, Len; Ducharme, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780195427806
• ISBN10: 0195427807
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this revised and streamlined fourth edition of Interpreting Canada's Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, authentic primary documents and critical academic articles allow students to delve into this nation's fascinating history. Organized both chronologically and thematically, each chapterbegins with an introduction that offers context for the documents that follow and includes an extensive list of questions for consideration and related readings. The fourth edition includes over 35 new primary and secondary documents, a new chapter on 'marketing the nation', and an enhancedtreatment of visual history with examples from popular consumer culture and fine art throughout. This celebrated post-Confederation reader is the second volume of a two-volume set of readers that has been created to accompany J.M. Bumsted's two-volume text The Peoples of Canada and his single volumetext A History of the Canadian Peoples.

Author Biography

J. M. Bumsted (retired) was Professor of History at St John's College, University of Manitoba, for over 30 years.

Len Kuffert is Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. His current work is on radio in English Canada.

Michel Ducharme is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His current research is focussed on British North American colonies (1749-1873); Canada and the Atlantic World, the history of Quebec; and liberalism and nationalism in Canada and Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. Debating Confederation
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From 'Attorney General's Speech', Nova Scotia, House of Assembly, 'Debate on
Resolutions Relative to Repeal of the "British North America Act" in the House of Assembly of
Nova Scotia; Session 1868'
Martin Isaac Wilkins
II.
From 'Our New Provinces: British Columbia'
Lieut.-Col. Coffin
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Agrarian Commonwealth or Entrepot of the Orient? Competing Conceptions of
Canada and the BC Terms of Union Debate of 1871'
Forrest Pass
IV.
From 'Provincial Rights'
Peter Russell
2. Establishing a New Order
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From 'An Act Respecting the Administration of Justice, and for the Establishment of a Police Force in the
North West Territories'
II.
From 'Articles of a Treaty Made and Concluded near Carlton (Treaty No. 6) (1876) in Canada'
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Churches, Police Forces, and the Department of Indian Affairs'
Keith D. Smith
IV.
From 'Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives": Prohibiting Polygamy in
Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities to 1900'
Sarah Carter
3. Resisting the New Order
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From 'Memorandum of Facts and Circumstances Connected with the Active Opposition by
the French Half-breeds in this Settlement to the Prosecution of the Government Surveys'
J.S. Dennis
II.
From Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Aboriginal Title'
Tom Flanagan
IV.
From 'Nationalism and Visual Media in Canada: The Case of "Thomas Scott's Execution"'
Lyle Dick
4. Britishness at the Margins
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
'A Nation's Welcome'
Margaret G. Yarker
II.
From Canada and the Canadian Question
Goldwin Smith
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Britishness, Canadianness, Class, and Race: Winnipeg and the British
World, 1880s-1910s'
Kurt Korneski
IV.
From 'More than a Flag of Convenience: Acadian Attitudes to Britain and the British around
the Time of Queen Victoria's 1887 Jubilee'
Sheila Andrew
5. Canadians at Work
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
Stephen Leacock
II.
From The Conditions of Female Labour in Ontario
Jean Thomson Scott
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'The Boys and Their Booze: Masculinities and Public Drinking in Working-class
Hamilton, 1890-1946'
Craig Heron
IV.
From 'Constructing a Labour Gospel: Labour and Religion in Early Twentieth-Century
Ontario'
Melissa Turkstra
6. The First World War
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
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
II.
From 'Canada Will Answer the Call: Sir Robert Borden's Inspiring War-Message to
the Canadian People: Speech Delivered at Toronto, 5 December 1914'
Robert Laird Borden
Historical Interpretations
III.
From '"He Was Determined to Go": Underage Soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force'
Tim Cook
IV.
From 'Divided by the Ballot Box: The Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 Election'
Tarah Brookfield
7. Marketing the Nation
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
Exhibition of Pictures Given by Canadian Artists in Aid of the Patriotic Fund (1914)
J.E.H. MacDonald
II.
The Empire needs Men! (. . .) Enlist Now (1914-18)
Arthur Wardle
III.
Jack Pine (1916-17)
Tom Thomson
IV.
Canadian Information (c. 1920)
Anonymous
V.
Trans-Canada Limited (1924)
G.Y. Kaufmann
VI.
Little Haven, Nova Scotia (1930)
Arthur Lismer
Historical Interpretations
VII.
From 'Branding Canada: Consumer Culture and the Development of Popular Nationalism in
the Early Twentieth Century'
Paula Hastings
VIII.
From 'The Group of Seven and the Tourist Landscape in Western Canada, or the More Things
Change . . .'
Lynda Jessup
8. Racism in Canada
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From The Black Candle
Emily Murphy
II.
From An Act Respecting Chinese Immigration
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Drawing Different Lines of Color: The Mainstream English Canadian Labour Movement's
Approach to Blacks and the Chinese, 1880-1914'
David Goutor
IV.
From 'Deporting "Ah Sin" to Save the White Race: Moral Panic, Racialization, and the
Extension of Canadian Drug Laws in the 1920s'
Catherine Carstairs
9. Fighting from Home
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From 'It's a Woman's War'
Mattie Rotenberg
II.
From 'Now Is the Time for Volunteer Workers to Chart the Future'
Anne Frances
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Counting the Costs of Living: Gender, Citizenship, and a Politics of Prices in
1940s Montreal'
Magda Fahrni
IV.
From Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec
Serge Durflinger
10. Rise of the Welfare State
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From Report on Social Security for Canada 1943
Leonard Marsh
II.
From The Dawn of Ampler Life
Charlotte Whitton
Historical Interpretations
III.
From Contributing Citizens: Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare
State, 1920-1966
Shirley Tillotson
IV.
From 'The Medicare Debate, 1945-1980'
Alvin Finkel
11. : The Quiet Revolution
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From Les insolences du Frere Untel [The Impertinences of Brother Anonymous]
Jean-Paul Desbiens
II.
From An Option for Quebec
Rene Levesque
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Why the Quiet Revolution Was "Quiet": The Catholic Church's Reaction to the
Secularization of Nationalism in Quebec after 1960'
David Seljak
IV.
From 'The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis'
Eric Bedard
12. Immigration and Multiculturalism
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From 'Cultural Democracy'
W.M. Haugan
II.
From 'Announcement of Implementation of Policy of Multiculturalism within Bilingual
Framework'
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Robert L. Stanfield, David Lewis, and Real Caouette
Historical Interpretations
III.
From '"We Are Not Asking You to Open Wide the Gates for Chinese Immigration":
The Committee for the Repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act and Early Human Rights
Activism in Canada'
Stephanie D. Bangarth
IV.
From 'The Roots of Multiculturalism: Ukrainian-Canadian Involvement in the
Multiculturalism Discussion of the 1960s as an Example of
the Position of the "Third Force"'
Julie Lalande
13. First Nations-Contemporary Issues
Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
'Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy 1969'
II.
'Citizens Plus'
Indian Chiefs of Alberta
Historical Interpretations
III.
From 'Making Aboriginal People "Immigrants Too": A Comparison of
Citizenship Programs for Newcomers and Indigenous Peoples in Postwar Canada, 1940s-1960s'
Heidi Bohaker and Franca Iacovetta
IV.
From '"Our City Indians": Negotiating the Meaning of First Nations Urbanization in Canada,
1945-1975'
Evelyn Peters
14. Canada in a Globalizing World Introduction
Questions for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Primary Documents
I.
From 'The Free Trade Agreement Fails Canada'
Maude Barlow
II.
From 'Myopia Could Wreck Global Trade Dream'
David Crane
Historical Interpretation
III.
From 'Building a New Nova Scotia: State Intervention. The Auto Industry and the Case of
Volvo in Halifax, 1963-1998'
Dimitry Anastakis
IV.
From 'Being French in North America: Quebec Culture and Globalization'
Diane Pacom