Canada and the British world : culture, migration, and identity / edited by Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckner, Phillip A. (Phillip Alfred), 1942-

Francis, R. D. (R. Douglas), 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Canada--History.

Nationalism.

Relations.

History.

Canada--History--19th century.

Canada.

Canada--History--20th century.

Canada--Relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Relations--Canada.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vi, 356 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2006]

Summary:

In the decades following the Second World War, a revolutionary change took place in the Canadian national identity. The English-Canadian majority entered this period identifying themselves as British and emerged from it with a new, independent sense of themselves as purely Canadian. Assured of their unique place in the world, Canadians can now reflect on the legacies and lessons of their British colonial past.

Canada and the British World surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Canadian identity over more than a century, the complex and evolving relationship between Canada and the larger British World is revealed. Examining the transition from the strong belief of nineteenth-century Canadians in the British character of their country to the realities of modern multicultural Canada, this book eschews nostalgia in its endeavour to understand the dynamic and complicated society in which Canadians did and do live.

Contents:

1 "Information Wanted": Women Emigrants in a Transatlantic World / Elizabeth Jane Errington 10

2 Self-Reflection in the Consolidation of Scottish Identity: A Case Study in Family Correspondence, 1805-50 / Sarah Katherine Gibson 29

3 Entering the Christian World: Indigenous Missionaries in Rupert's Land / Andy A. den Otter 45

4 Law and British Culture in the Creation of British North America / David Murray 64

5 New Brunswick Women Travellers and the British Connection, 1845-1905 / Gail G. Campbell 76

6 "Our Glorious Anglo-Saxon Race Shall Ever Fill Earth's Highest Place": The Anglo-Saxon and the Construction of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada / Paula Hastings 92

7 Canada's Boys - An Imperial or National Asset? Response to Baden-Powell's Boy Scout Movement in Pre-War Canada / Patricia Dirks 111

8 Part of the British Empire, Too: French Canada and Colonization Propaganda / Serge Courville 129

9 Competing Visions: Canada, Britain, and the Writing of the First World War / Wesley C. Gustavson 142

10 Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memoralization / Katie Pickles 157

11 Scrutinizing the "Submerged Tenth": Salvation Army Immigrants and Their Reception in Canada / Myra Rutherdale 174

12 Enigmas in Hebridean Emigration: Crofter Colonists in Western Canada / Marjory Harper 198

13 Nation-Building in Saskatchewan: Teachers from the British Isles in Saskatchewan Rural Schools in the 1920s / Marilyn Barber 215

14 Brushes, Budgets, and Butter: Canadian Culture and Identity at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25 / Christopher Tait 234

15 Instructor to Empire: Canada and the Rhodes Scholarship, 1902-39 / David E. Torrance 250

16 The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in the 1930s: How Canada's First Public Broadcaster Negotiated "Britishness" / Mary Vipond 270

17 Canadian Labour Politics and the British Model, 1920-50 / James Naylor 288

18 Historical Perspective on Britain: The Ideas of Canadian Historians Frank H. Underhill and Arthur R.M. Lower / R. Douglas Francis 309

19 The Monarchy, the Mounties, and Ye Olde English Fayre: Identity at All Saints' Anglican, Edmonton, 1875-1990s / Frances Swyripa 322.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0774813059

OCLC:

70777651

Publisher Number:

9780774813051