Kategoria BISAC: History >> Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)

Religion is usually thought inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. This book takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, it explores three important axes of religiously based contention ? Protestant vs. Catholic, conservative vs. reformer, and, more recently, minority religious practices. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, the authors show that religion still matters in shaping...

As environmental deterioration became a major social and political issue near the end of the twentieth century, activists in Nova Scotia stood together to defend the places they called home. Political radicals and conservatives alike worked to achieve legislative and social success, even as they disagreed over fundamental principles. In Defence of Home Places examines the diversity of this movement, its early accomplishments, and the disagreements that caused its eventual weakening and division. It places Nova Scotian environmental activism within national and international contexts...

Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. Using case studies from a Canadian context, the contributors to this collection reflect on the challenges in maintaining and developing museums as meaningful places of memory and learning. Discussions of museum practice and historical consciousness ? how our understanding of the past shapes our sense of the future ? consider the modern museum's narratives and pedagogical responsibilities and how museums continue to inform our sense of history.

In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of history than they reflected historical fact. These museums became important components of postwar government economic growth and employment policies. Shaped by political pressures and the need to balance education and entertainment, they reflected Canadians? struggle to establish a...

Many Canadians lament that prime ministerial power has become too concentrated since the 1970s. This book contradicts this view by demonstrating how prime ministerial power was centralized from the very beginning of Confederation and that the first three important prime ministers ? Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden ? channelled that centralizing impulse to adapt to the circumstances they faced. Using a variety of innovative approaches, Patrice Dutil focuses on the managerial philosophies of each of the prime ministers. He shows that by securing a firm grip on the instruments of governance...

When it comes to upholding human rights both at home and abroad, many Canadians believe that have always been ?on the side of the angels.? This book tells the story of Canada's contributions ? both good and bad ? to the development and advancement of international human rights law at the Commission on Human Rights from 1946 to 2006. In it, Canada's reputation is examined through its involvement in a number of contentious human rights issues ? political, civil, racial, women?s, and Indigenous. An in-depth historical overview of six decades of Canadian engagement within the UN human rights...

With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War. This book tells the story of the nearly 2,000 women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to ?do their bit? overseas and at home. Well-educated and middle-class but largely untrained, VADs were excluded from Canadian military hospitals overseas (the realm of the professional nurse) but helped solve Britain's nursing deficit. Their struggle to secure a place at their brothers? bedsides reveals much about the tensions...

This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire and of domestic Britain, published in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series, as well as his pioneering psephological study of the 1880 General Election, the essays include analyses of Anglo-Irish relations, Florence Nightingale, Canada, muckrackers, the Primrose League and...

But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow 

Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow 

’Tis I’ll be there, in sunshine or in shadow 

Oh Danny Boy, Oh Danny Boy, I love you so

In 2015, at the age of 95, Cathie Smith decided to get serious about finishing a memoir she had started years earlier about her parents’ homesteading in Alberta. Her daughter, Jean, offered to help, and the result is In Sunshine and in Shadow—a lively, informative book that records the history of two families, the...

But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow

Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow

’Tis I’ll be there, in sunshine or in shadow

Oh Danny Boy, Oh Danny Boy, I love you so

In 2015, at the age of 95, Cathie Smith decided to get serious about finishing a memoir she had started years earlier about her parents’ homesteading in Alberta. Her daughter, Jean, offered to help, and the result is In Sunshine and in Shadow—a lively, informative book that records the history of two families, the Rosses and the...

Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the...

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980.

Based on an analysis of traditional expressions in literature of group solidarity and resentment, the study screens English-Canadian novels for fictional representations of such feelings. Beginning with the English-Canadian reaction to the mass influx of immigrants into Western Canada after World War One, it examines the fiction of novelists such as Ralph Connor and Nellie McClung. The author then...