Recently added articles from Journal of Canadian Studies:
Locating Family: Asian Canadian Historical Revisioning in Linda Ohama's Obaachan's Garden and Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay analyzes the family portrait documentary projects of two Asian Canadian filmmakers, Linda Ohama's Obaachan's Garden (2001) and Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003) as projects that make family stories important sources for Asian Canadian historical revisioning ....
The British Columbia View of Cartoonist J.B. Fitzmaurice, 1908-1909
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay is both an introduction to and an examination of the early political and social affairs cartoons of Vancouver Province newspaper cartoonist James B. Fitzmaurice (1875-1926), who used the tools of visual rhetoric to create an imagined consensus in British Columbia. In the years ...
Cultural Authority and Canadian Public Broadcasting in the 1930s: Hector Charlesworth and the CRBC
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), created as Canada's first public broadcaster in 1932, struggled throughout its short existence to establish its legitimacy and authority as a cultural and social force in a North American environment dominated by entertainment-oriented ...
The Woods Gordon Report, Accountability, and the Postwar Reconstruction of the National Film Board of Canada
Jan 01, 2008; ... Historical accounts of the postwar National Film Board (NFB) typically begin with the purges of NFB staff against the backdrop of the Red Scare. This article revisits this period by situating the Film Board within a context of postwar economic reconstruction. It focusses on an administrative ...
Making Sober Citizens: The Legacy of Indigenous Alcohol Regulation in Canada, 1777-1985
Jan 01, 2008; ... From the late eighteenth century on, the British tried to regulate the sale of alcohol to Aboriginal peoples. Once colonial Canadians acquired responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, they promoted assimilation. Aboriginal peoples would become citizens, but they had to demonstrate sobriety first ....
A Comforting Past: Skirting Conflict and Complexity at Montgomery's Inn
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay explores the history of Montgomery's Inn, a nineteenth-century tavern redeveloped in the 1960s as a community museum in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke. The inn becomes an interesting microcosm for the nature of 1960s commemorations: the weakness of the site lies not in its selection ...
Out of Step or Leading the Parade? Public Opinion about Income Support Policy in Alberta, 1995 and 2004
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay examines changing public opinion on a contentious political topic in the province of Alberta, namely, the two waves of "welfare reform" initiated by the Conservative government from the mid-1990s onwards. Province-wide public opinion data collected in 1995 and 2004 are compared to ...
A Mixed Record: Gender and Saskatchewan Social Democracy
Jan 01, 2008; ... By examining the case of Saskatchewan, this article contributes to the debate over whether social democratic governments increase women's representation in legislatures and enact policies that are favourable to women. Despite initial openness to women's concerns in early agrarian protest ...
The Lay of the Land: Four New Books in Canadian Rural History
Jan 01, 2008; ... James Murton Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement. By Rusty Bittermann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii, 372 pp., maps, tables. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-802-00439-1. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 0-802-07229-1. The Other ...
Crossing Borders, Changing Worlds: Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia's Atlantic Connections
Jan 01, 2008; ... Jeffers Lennox From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People 1604-1755. By N.E.S. Griffiths. Canadian Institute for Research on Public Policy and Public Administration, Université de Moncton. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. 633 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN ...
Written on the Landscape: Health and Region in Canada
Oct 01, 2007; ... Canada's health-care system is a cornerstone of the welfare state and, equally, a cornerstone in the country's national identity. Whether discussing access to services, the politics of providing particular kinds of services such as abortion, the distribution of health-care providers, the care ...
Building the System: Churches, Missionary Organizations, the Federal State, and Health Care in Southern Alberta Treaty 7 Communities, 1890-1930
Oct 01, 2007; ... This essay looks at the evolution of institutional structures of western health care in First Nations communities in southern Alberta from 1880 to 1930. During the 1890s various churches and their missionary organizations built cottage hospitals, school infirmaries, and dispensaries in ...
Land of the Living Sky with Diamonds: A Place for Radical Psychiatry?
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dr. Humphry Osmond first published the term "psychedelic" in 1957 as a result of an extensive set of clinical investigations with d-lysergic acid diethylmide (LSD) that took place in Saskatchewan in the 1950s. In the post-World War Two period, Saskatchewan became an attractive destination for ...
La Grande Séduction? The Immigration of Foreign-Trained Physicians to Canada, c. 1954-76
Oct 01, 2007; ... Over the course of its history, Canada has always welcomed a steady number of foreign-born and foreign-trained doctors; however, the period 1954-1976 witnessed a unique event in twentieth-century Canadian medical and immigration history. In the context of a "national doctor shortage," many ...
On the Road to Medicare: Newfoundland in the 1960s
Oct 01, 2007; ... Although historians have debated the social, political, and economic consequences of Newfoundland's decision to join Canada in 1949, very little attention has been devoted to the repercussions of such a change for the new province's health care system. This essay explores post-war policy debates ...
"The Dene Way of Life": Perspectives on Health From Canada's North
Oct 01, 2007; ... The health and wellness of Canada's Aboriginal peoples is often measured in narrow biomedical terms with little consideration given to how health is conceptualized in Aboriginal communities. This study attempts to address this gap by providing a perspective on health and wellness developed in ...
Big Persons, Small Voices: On Governance, Obesity, and the Narrative of the Failed Citizen
Oct 01, 2007; ... This essay probes the connection between obesity and citizenship in Canada, outlining the ways in which the fat body or "failed body project" is equally positioned as that of the "failed citizen." It examines how the personal body has been connected to that of the citizen, and traces the ...
Local and Selective Appropriation: Circulation of New Diagnostic Categories in Speech Therapy in Quebec's Clinical Practice, 1985-2002
Oct 01, 2007; ... This essay is about the development, transmission, and use of new categories of diagnosis among speech therapists in Quebec's hospitals and rehabilitation centres. From the viewpoint of the history of professions, the author emphasizes the driving role of clinicians' local initiatives and ...
Reflections on "Region" in Recent Writings on the History of Health and Medicine in Canada
Oct 01, 2007; ... Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia. By Megan J. Davies. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. 264 pp. $75.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780773525023. $29.95 (paper) ISBN 9780773526457. Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, ...
Ethical Imagination or Ethical Reasoning?
Oct 01, 2007; ... Ethical Imagination or Ethical Reasoning? Christine Overall The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit. By Margaret Somerville. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2006. 270 pp. $18.95 (paper) ISBN 0887847471. There is no literature on the ethics of ethicists-they are simply ...