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 ....