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.

Canada--Relations--Great Britain.

Canada.

Great Britain--Relations--Canada.

Great Britain.

Canada--Civilization--British influences.

Canada--History--19th century.

Canada--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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. Candid and ambitious, Canada and the British World is recommended reading for historians and scholars of colonialism and nationalism, as well as anyone interested in what it really means to be Canadian.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Information Wanted: Women Emigrants in a Transatlantic World""; ""2 Self-Reflection in the Consolidation of Scottish Identity: A Case Study in Family Correspondence, 1805-50""; ""3 Entering the Christian World: Indigenous Missionaries in Rupert's Land""; ""4 Law and British Culture in the Creation of British North America""; ""5 New Brunswick Women Travelers and the British Connection, 1845-1905""

""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""""7 Canada's Boys An Imperial or National Asset? Response to Baden-Powell's Boy Scout Movement in Pre-War Canada""; ""8 Part of the British Empire, Too: French Canada and Colonization Propaganda""; ""9 Competing Visions: Canada, Britain, and the Writing of the First World War""; ""10 Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memoralization""

""11 Scrutinizing the Submerged Tenth: Salvation Army Immigrants and Their Reception in Canada""""12 Enigmas in Hebridean Emigration: Crofter Colonists in Western Canada""; ""13 Nation-Building in Saskatchewan: Teachers from the British Isles in Saskatchewan Rural Schools in the 1920's""; ""14 Brushes, Budgets, and Butter: Canadian Culture and Identity at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25""; ""15 Instructor to Empire: Canada and the Rhodes Scholarship, 1902-39""

""16 The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in the 1930's: How Canada's First Public Broadcaster Negotiated Britishness""""17 Canadian Labour Politics and the British Model, 1920-50""; ""18 Historical Perspective on Britain: The Ideas of Canadian Historians Frank H. Underhill and Arthur R.M. Lower""; ""19 The Monarchy, the Mounties, and Ye Olde English Fayre: Identity at All Saints Anglican, Edmonton, 1875-1990s""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"";

Notes:

Limited edition of 400 copies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74100-4

9786612741005

0-7748-5504-5

OCLC:

923445375