About the Book
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:
Chapter 1 ESTABLISHING A NEW ORDER?; Document 1 "Convention at Yale" from Alexander Begg, History of British Columbia from its Earliest Discovery to the Present Time (Toronto, Wm. Briggs, 1894); Document 2 "Articles of a Treaty made and concluded near Carlton (Treaty No. 6) (1876) in Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680-1890 in Two Volumes, Vol. II (Ottawa: Brown Chamberlin, [Queen's Printer], 1891); Reading 1 excerpt from: Donald Creighton, John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955); Reading 2 excerpt from Keith Walden, Visions of Order (Toronto: Butterworths, 1982); Reading 3 Jean Barman, Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900," BC Studies 115-116 (1997-98); Chapter 2 REBELS AND REACTIONARIES; Introduction; Document 1 excerpts from Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gownanlock, Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1999); Document 2 "Speech of Mr. D'Alton McCarthy, M.P., on the French Language in the North-West, 18 February 1890"; Reading 1 G.F.G. Stanley, The Birth of Western Canada (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936); Reading 2 exerpts from Chapter 6 of Thomas Flanagan, Louis 'David' Riel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979); Reading 3 Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser, Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion (Calgary: Fifth House, 1998); Chapter 3 IMPERIALISM AND ITS CRITICS; Introduction; Document 1 excerpt from Goldwin Smith, Canada and the Canadian Question (Toronto: Hunter, Rose and Company, 1891); Document 2 excerpt from George T. Denison, The Struggle for Imperial Unity (Toronto: Macmillian, 1909); Reading 1 excerpt from Carl Berger, The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970); Reading 2 Cecilia Morgan, "Of Slender Frame and Delicate Appearance": The Placing of Laura Secord in the Narratives of Canadian Loyalist History," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5 1994; Reading 3 Nancy B. Bouchier, "Idealized Middle-Class Sport for a Young Nation: Lacrosse in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Towns, 1871-1891," Journal of Canadian Studies 29(2): (1994); Chapter 4 MAKING OF THE CANADIAN WORKING CLASS; Introduction; Document 1 Edward Blake, "To Knights of Labour" [Welland, Ontario] in Dominion Election Campaign of 1886: Hon. Edward Blake's Speeches (Toronto: Hunder, Rose and Co., 1886); Document 2 exerpts from Jean Thomson Scott, The Conditions of Female Labour in Ontario (Toronto: Warwick & Sons, 1892); Reading 1; Reading 2; Reading 3 Craig Heron and Steve Penfold, "The Craftsmen's Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, the Early Years," Histoire Sociale/Social History 29(58) (1996); Chapter 5 THE AGE OF REFORM; Introduction; Document 1 Stephen Leacock, The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 1920), 124-152; Document 2; Reading 1 exerpt from Richard Allen, "Salem Bland: The Young Preacher," Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 1977 19(1-2); Reading 2 Mariana Valverde, "The Work of Allegories," in The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925 (Toronto: McClelland & Stweart, 1991); Reading 3; Chapter 6 THE FIRST WORLD WAR; Introduction; Document 1 edited version of Henri Bourassa, "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,'" Montreal, January, 1915; Document 2 Robert Laird Borden, Canada will answer the call: Sir Robert Borden's inspiring war-message to the Canadian people: speech delivered at Toronto, Dec. 5th, 1914. (Ottawa: Federal Press Agency, [1914?]); Reading 1 edited version of James W. St. G. Walker, "Race and Recruitment in World War I: Enlistment of Visible Minorities in the Canadian Expeditionary Force," Canadian Historical Review 70(1) (1989); Reading 2 edited version of Linda J. Quincey, "'Sharing the Halo':Social and Professional Tensions in the Work of World War I Canadian Volunteer Nurses," Journal of the Canadian Historial Association (1998); Reading 3 edited version of Tim Cook, "'More a Medicine Than a Beverage': 'Demon Rum' and the Canadian Trench Soldier of the First World War," Canadian Military History 9(1) (2000); Chapter 7 CANADA ON THE AIR; Introduction; Document 1 excerpts from Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting (Ottawa: King's Printer, 1929); Document 2 Frank Chamberlain, "How Radio Wins Friends and Influences People," Food for Thought 3(8) (April 1943); Reading 1 excerpts from Chapter 5 of E. Austin Weir, The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965); Reading 2 excerpt from Mary Vipond, Listening In: The First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992); Reading 3 Jeff A. Webb, "Constructing Community and Consumers: Joseph R. Smallwood's Barrelman Radio Programme," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 8 (1997); Chapter 8 HER SECOND WORLD WAR; Introduction; Document 1 Mattie Rotenberg, "It's a Woman's War," broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada Network, n.d. 1944; Document 2 Lillian D. Millar, "Has This Structure of a Million Women Post-War Potentialities?" Saturday Night (8 July 1944); Reading 1 Diane G. Forestell, "The Necessity of Sacrifice for the Nation at War: Women's Labour Force Participation, 1939-1946," Social History/Histoire Sociale 22(44) (1989); Reading 2 Peter Neary and Shaun Brown, "The Veterans Charter and Canadian Women Veterans of the Second World War," British Journals of Canadian Studies 9(2) (1994); Reading 3 Magda Fahrni, "Counting The Costs of Living: Gender, Citizenship, and a Politics of Prices in 1940s Montreal," Canadian Historical Review 83 (4) (2002); Chapter 9 BRING BACK THE 1950S?; Introduction; Document 1 Margaret Ness, "Marriage Blueprints For Today's Youth," Saturday Night (26 January 1952); Document 2 edited version of John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Sim and E.W. Loosley, "Career," Chapter 6 of Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956); Reading 1 edited version of Nicole Neatby, "Student Leaders at the University of Montreal during the Early 1950s: What Did Catholics Want?" Historical Studies: Canadian Catholic Historical Association 62 (1996); Reading 2 Mona Gleason, "Disciplining Children, Disciplining Parents: The Nature and Meaning of Advice to Canadian Parents, 1945-1955," Histoire Sociale/Social History 29(57) (May 1996); Reading 3 Chris Dummitt, Finding a Place for Father: Selling the Barbecue in Postwar Canada," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 9 (1998); Chapter 10 THE WELFARE STATE; Introduction; Document 1 Harry Cassidy, section titled, "A National Programme of Social Security" in Social Security & Reconstruction in Canada (Toronto: Ryerson, 1943); Document 2 excerpt from Charlotte Whitton, The Dawn of Ampler Life (Toronto: Macmillan, 1943); Reading 1 P.G. Nixon, "The Welfare State North: Early Developments in Inuit Income Security," Journal of Canadian Studies 25(2) 1990; Chapter 11 QUEBEC 60S; Introduction; Document 1 edited version of "The Offical Languages" from Hugh R. Innis, Bilingualism and Biculturalism: An Abridged Version of the Royal Commission Report (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973); Document 2 Hubert Guindon, "Social Unrest, Social Class and Quebec's Bureaucratic Revolution," Queen's Quarterly 71(2) (Summer 1964); Reading 1; Reading 2 Ramsay Cook, "Has the Quiet Revolution Finally Ended?" Queen's Quarterly 90(2) (Summer 1983); Reading 3 edited version of David Seljak, "Why The Quiet Revolution Was "Quiet": The Catholic Church's Reaction to the Secularization of Nationalism in Quebec After 1960," Historical Studies: Canadian Catholic Historical Association 62 (1996); Chapter 12 FIRST NATIONS - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES; Introduction; Document 1 Government of Canada, "Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy 1969," [a.k.a. "The White Paper]; Document 2 excerpts from the Indian Chiefs of Alberta, "Citizens Plus" [a.k.a. "The Red Paper"]; Reading 1 edited version of Chapter 9 (Developments after the White Paper) from Sally M. Weaver, Making Canadian Indian Policy: the hidden agenda 1968-70 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981); Reading 2 Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "Oil and Lubicons Don't Mix: A Land Claim in Northern Alberta in Historical Perspective," Canadian Journal of Native Studies 12(1) 1992; Reading 3 Jean Barman, "Aboriginal Education at the Crossroads: The Legacy of Residential Schools and the Way Ahead," in Olive Patricia Dickason and David Alan Long, eds., Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues (Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1996); Chapter 13 CANADA IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD; Introduction; Document 1 edited version of Frank Peers, "Oh say, can you see?" in Ian Lumsden, ed., Close the 49th Parallel etc. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970); Document 2 Maude Barlow, "The Free Trade Agreement Fails Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies 21 (2/3) (Summer/Autumn, 1991); Reading 1 Imre Szeman, "The Rhetoric of Culture: Some Notes on Magazines, Canadian Culture and Globalization: Journal of Canadian Studies 35(3) 2000; Reading 3 Elizabeth Smythe, "Repoliticizing Globalization in Canada: From the MAI to Seattle," Journal of Canadian Studies 36(1) 2001; Reading 4 Diane Pacom, "Being French in North America: Quebec Culture and Globalization," American Review of Canadian Studies 31(3) (Autumn 2001)
