Interpreting Canada's Past

Preface
Introduction Primary and Secondary Sources
1. Debating Confederation
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From, "Attorney General's speech," Nova Scotia, House of Assembly, Debates on the Resolutions Relative to Repeal of the "British North America Act," in the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1868 by Martin Isaac Wilkins
2. From, "Our New Provinces: British Columbia," by Lieutenant-Colonel Coffin
Historical Interpretations
3. From, "Agrarian Commonwealth or Entrepôt of the Orient? Competing Conceptions of Canada and the BC Terms of Union Debate of 1871" by Forrest D. Pass
4. From "Confederation Defeated: The Newfoundland Election of 1869" by James K. Hiller [NEW]
2. Establishing a New Order
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From, "An Act Respecting the Administration of Justice, and for the Establishment of a Police Force in the North West Territories," Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, 1873
2. "Articles of a Treaty Made and Concluded Near Carlton ..." (Treaty No. 6, 1876)
Historical Interpretations
3. From "Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76," in Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by James Daschuk. [NEW]
4. From, "Creating 'Semi-Widows' and 'Supernumerary Wives': Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada's Aboriginal Communities to 1900," by Sarah A. Carter
3. Resisting the New Order
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. "St. Laurent Petition, 16 December 1884"
2. From Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear by Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock
3. Photographs
· Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear)
· Big Bear and Poundmaker in Detention
· Gabriel Dumont
· Louis Riel, c. 16 May 1885, Batoche. Saskatchewan
· Louis Riel's Trial
Historical Interpretations
4. From "The North-West Rebellion," in Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada, 3rd edition by J.R. Miller (New)
5. From "'Eskimo' Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance" by Laurie Bertram. [NEW]
4. Canadians At Work
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From The Conditions of Female Labour in Ontario by Jean Thomson Scott
2. From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Stephen Leacock
Historical Interpretations
3. "Sunday in Quebec, 1907-1937" by Paul Laverdure
4. From, "Constructing a Labour Gospel: Labour and Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario" by Melissa Turkstra
5. The First World War
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. 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'" by Henri Bourassa
2. From, "Canada Will Answer the Call: Sir Robert Borden's Inspiring War-Message to the Canadian People: Speech Delivered at Toronto, Dec. 5th, 1914" by Robert Laird Borden
Historical Interpretations
3. From "'He Was Determined to Go': Underage Soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force" by Tim Cook
4. From "Uncovering the Enemy Within: British Columbians and the German Menace" by Peter Moogk
6. Life During the Great Depression [NEW]
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From, The Wretched of Canada: Letters to R. B. Bennett, 1930-1935 [NEW]
2. From "Ella Liscombe Diary, 1935" [NEW]
Historical Interpretations
3. From, "If You Had No Money, You Had No Trouble, Did You?" by Denyse Baillargeon
4. From "Canada's 'Gulag': Project #51 Lac Seul (A Tale from the Great Depression)" by Laurel Sefton MacDowell [NEW]
7. Discrimination and World War Two [NEW]
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. Images from "Photographs of a Japanese Canadian Internment Camp: Mourning Loss and Invoking a Future" by Kirsten McCallister [NEW]
· Tashme Internment Camp
· Kindergarten Class, Tashme Internment Camp
· Kurita Cooking Class, Tashme Internment Camp
· Tashme Internment Camp, Exterior
· Tashme Internment Camp, Exterior
· Tashme Internment Camp, Winter
· Men at Tashme Internment Camp
· Tashme Internment Camp, c. 1943
- Women Skating, Tashme Internment Camp
2. Letter of F.C Blair, Director of the Immigration Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources, to the Commissioner of the Saint John Board of Trade, F. Maclure Sclanders [NEW)
Historical Interpretatons
3. From "The Long Wet Summer of 1942: The Ontario Farm Service Force, Small-Town Ontario, and the Nisei" by Stephanie Bangarth [NEW]
4. From "Uneasy Neighbours: Internment and Hamilton's Italians" by Enrico Carlson Cumbo [NEW]
8. The Rise of the Welfare State
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From Report on Social Security for Canada by Leonard Marsh
2. From The Dawn of Ampler Life by Charlotte Whitton
Historical Interpretations
3. From Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History by Alvin Finkel
4. From "'I Ask You, Mr. Mitchell, Is the Emergency Over?': Debating Day Nurseries in the Second World War" by Lisa Pasolli [NEW]
9. Cold War Canada
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From "Letter to My Son" by Farley Mowat
2. Five Caricatures Related to Canada and the Cold War
· The World We Live In by John Collins
· RCMP Dilemma: Report to Ottawa or Washington? by A.C. Kaufman
· Watch Dog by Merle Tingley
· ...And Now a Word from the Chopping Block by Merle Tingey
- Missile Cruise Tests Over Alberta by Aislin (alias Terry Mosher)
Historical Interpretations
3. From "The Queer Career of Homosexual Security Vetting in Cold War Canada" by Daniel J. Robinson and David Kimmel
4. From "A 'Half-Hearted Response'? Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962" by Asa McKercher
10. Settler Canadians, the Environment, and Conceptions of the North [NEW]
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From "The Flu Epidemic"
2. From "Letter to the Minister," in Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland: The Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, Volume 1 by Thomas Berger [NEW]
Historical Interpretations
3. From "The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North," by Andrew Stuhl [NEW]
4. From "The Cold War on Canadian Soil: Militarizing a Northern Environment" by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Matthew Farish
11. Rising Canadian and Québécois Nationalism
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From "FLQ Manifesto 1970"
2. From, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism by George Grant [NEW]
Historical Interpretations
3. From "Québécoises deboutte! Nationalism and Feminism in Quebec, 1969-1975" by Sean Mills
4. From "'Legislated Radio': Industry, Identity, and Canadian Content Regulations" in Canuck Rock: A History of Canadian Popular Music by Ryan Edwardson [NEW]
12. Immigration and Multiculturalism
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada by Neil Bissoondath
2. From "Mapping Africadia's Imaginary Geography: An Interview with George Elliot Clarke" by Maureen Moynagh [NEW]
Historical Interpretations
3. From "The Roots of Multiculturalism: Ukrainian-Canadian Involvement in the Multiculturalism Discussion of the 1960s an as Examples of the Position of the 'Third Force'" by Julia Lalande
4. From "'Slotting' Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947-1967" by Laura Madokoro [NEW]
13. The Residential School System [NEW]
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. Images from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archives [NEW]
· École de l'Immaculée-Conception, Standoff, Alberta
· St Philip's Indian Residential School, Fort George, Quebec
· Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, Nova Scotia
· Shingwauk Student Residence, Sault Ste Marie District, Ontario
· Brandon Indian Residential School, Manitoba
· Old Sun Residential School, Gleichen, Alberta
· St Peter's Indian Residential School, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta
· St John's Indian Residential School, Chapleau, Ontario
· École du Sacré-Coeur, Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
- Shingwauk Indian Residential School, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
2. From Out of the Depths by Isabelle Knockwood [NEW]
Historical Interpretations
3. From "Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952" by Ian Mosby [NEW]
4. From "'Part of That Whole System': Maritime Day and Residential Schooling and Federal Culpability" by Martha Walls [NEW]
14. Canada in a Globalizing World
Introduction
Primary Documents
1. From "The Free Trade Agreement Fails Canada" by Maude Barlow
2. Five Caricatures Related to the 1988 Free Trade Agreement and Subsequent Federal Election
· What's Really Scary Is ... by Brian Gable
· Against Free Trade, For Free Trade by Aislin (alias Terry Mosher)
· Free Trade by Aislin (alias Terry Mosher)
· Free Trade by Serge Chapleau
Historical Interpretations
- Free Trade by Aislin (alias Terry Mosher)
3. From "Building a 'New Nova Scotia': State Intervention, the Auto Industry and the Case of Volvo in Halifax, 1963-1998" by Dimitry Anastakis
4. From "The Domestic Politics of Quebec's Quest for External Distinctiveness" by Louis Bélanger

Online Primary Source Library:
- Features 60 canonical and lesser-known primary sources for both Pre- and Post-Confederation
- Each source is accompanied by an introduction offering students a contextual and social perspective

Amy Shaw is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Lethbridge.

Corey Slumkoski is an associate professor in the History Department at Mount Saint Vincent University.

The late J.M. Bumsted was a retired professor of the University of Manitoba.

Special Features

• Comprehensive collection of historical documents and current scholarship presents students with an extensive look at Canada's political, economic, and social post-Confederation history.
• - Primary source documents showcase participant voices from the past to help students relate to Canadians living after Confederation.
• - Secondary source documents offer historical interpretations of key topics such as race and ethnicity, immigration and colonialism, Indigenous perspectives, environmental history, Canadian and Quebecois nationalism, and the Residential School System.
• Contributions from leading Canadian historians offer a broad range of perspectives on political, economic, and social concerns that have shaped the lives of Canadians since Confederation.
• Thoughtful chapter introductions give students the contextual framework needed to understand the documents that follow.
• Questions for consideration encourage students to think critically about chapter material and suggestions for further reading promote active learning.

• Four brand new chapters cover life during the Great Depression (Ch. 6), discrimination during World War II (Ch. 7), Euro-Canadian imperialism, the environment, and conceptions of the North (Ch. 10), and the Residential School system (Ch. 13).
• Expanded coverage of Indigenous histories and perspectives reflect current historiographical and methodological developments in the fields of Indigenous and Canadian history.
• 20 new readings and more than 20 new historical photos offer students insight into various topics of interest, including immigration and colonialism after Confederation, Canadian and Québécois nationalism, and much more.
• Revised and updated throughout, including 10 revised chapter introductions to help students understand the readings that follow.