{"title":"Response to the Round Table on Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital","authors":"Alexia M. Yates","doi":"10.7202/1055332AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055332AR","url":null,"abstract":"Alexia Yates responds to comments on her award-winning book, Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital.","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122403133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert C.H. Sweeny’s Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?: Montreal, 1819–1849: A Round Table Commentary","authors":"M. Fahrni","doi":"10.7202/1055326AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055326AR","url":null,"abstract":"Readers of Robert C.H. Sweeny’s Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 1819–1849 will find old questions, interrogated with classic quantitative methods, and new questions, methods, and ways of writing history. This book is of interest for those historians who wish to understand the debate around the process of industrialization, or the impact of the arrival or industrial capitalism on a city. What is more, Sweeny’s book constitutes proof that the craft of history is an exercise in life-long learning, allowing the reader to find something new in each reading.","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114133662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Temperate Province? Evidence from Lower Canadian General Store Account Books, 1830-1857","authors":"B. Craig","doi":"10.7202/1055323AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055323AR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Alcoholic consumption was unproblematic and supposedly widespread in the Canadas in the early years of the nineteenth century, until temperance movements sought to eradicate it through moral suasion, shaming and regulations in the second quarter of the century. In Lower Canada, the 1849-1850 temperance crusade spearheaded by father Chiniquy, with the support of religious and lay authorities would have led to a rapid collapse in the importation, production and sale of alcohol and the closing of numerous taverns. Evidence from country general store account books suggest that Lower Canadians were already moderate drinkers at the beginning of the century and that their consumption was already declining before Chiniquy launched his crusade, and his success would have been due to minds already half made. On the other hand, the availability of other stimulant beverages, such as coffee or tea does not seem to have played a role.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129303503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Personal Reflection on Robert C.H. Sweeny’s Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal 1819–1849","authors":"B. Bradbury","doi":"10.7202/1055325AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1055325AR","url":null,"abstract":"This reflection on Robert C.H. Sweeny’s Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal 1819–1849 is grounded in a consideration of various historical, historiographic, and personal moments, evaluating what Sweeny’s work means in a variety of contexts. Sweeny’s book offers a complex portrait of the changing inequalities of a nineteenth-century city, and important theoretical and methodological insights and cautions.","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133906248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discours de la présidente. Confronter notre passé colonial : une réévaluation des alliances politiques au Canada à travers le XXe siècle","authors":"Joan Sangster","doi":"10.7202/1050895AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1050895AR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Cet article examine des exemples d’alliances politiques initiées par les colons avec les Premières nations du Canada au cours du XXe siècle, en les replaçant dans leurs contextes sociaux et historiques, et en évaluant leurs conceptions ainsi que leurs limites idéologiques et matérielles. Je considère quatre exemples très différents, allant des protestations contre la mainmise sur les terres et des tentatives de préserver les cultures autochtones, jusqu’à l’Indian Eskimo Association de l’après-Seconde Guerre mondiale et les projets des Jeunes Autochtones associés à la Compagnie des jeunes Canadiens. Par le passé, les efforts des colons de nouer des alliances ou de parler au nom des Peuples autochtones recouvraient de multiples intentions et idées politiques, incluant autant des efforts de plaidoyer et de partenariat qu’une reproduction paternaliste de la pensée colonialiste. L’évaluation de ces histoires complexes représente une partie importante de nos tentatives de nous confronter de manière critique à l’histoire du colonialisme au Canada.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132587550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kanata/Canada: Re-storying Canada 150 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights","authors":"Karine R. Duhamel","doi":"10.7202/1050900AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1050900AR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 “Kanata/Canada: Re-storying ‘Canada 150’ at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights” seeks to contextualize the changing role of museums and of heritage institutions within contemporary discussions about the urgent need for public education on Indigenous histories and contemporary realities. The author of this article argues that museums can become truly decolonizing spaces if they are willing to re-examine their own purpose and mandate. Through an examination of the CMHR’s own exhibition development for 2017, she maintains that undertaking grounded, reparative reconciliation that is meaningful to communities in a museum context means going beyond acknowledgement and recognition to re-storying the very foundations of Canadian nation-building, and of projects like Confederation that remain, necessarily, unfinished.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133243310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Place of Mad People and Disabled People in Canadian Historiography: Surveys, Biographies, and Specialized Fields","authors":"G. Reaume","doi":"10.7202/1050902AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1050902AR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article will consider the extent to which mad and disabled people’s histories have, or have not, been included in studies of Canada’s past, including in surveys, biographies and specialized fields. The purpose is to understand when, where and how people deemed mad or disabled have been excluded or included in broader discussions of Canadian history and how the recent growth of mad people’s history and disability history in Canada can influence historiographical developments. There will also be a discussion of how both fields are directly related since people deemed mad were and are to this day categorized under the broad scope of disability, just as are people with physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities. Consideration will also be given to how this field of inter-disciplinary research has benefited from work by researchers who do not necessarily identify as historians in either field but whose work has contributed to these areas, such as through the scholarship of medical historians. The ultimate aim of this paper is to advocate for mad and disabled people’s histories to become incorporated more widely beyond these specialized fields when interpreting Canada’s past.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133877491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weaving the Imperial Breadbasket: Nationalism, Empire and the Triumph of Canadian Wheat, 1890-1940","authors":"Nicholas Tošaj","doi":"10.7202/1050901AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1050901AR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Canadian wheat has occupied a prominent place in the global market since the late 19th century. Ideal for bread-baking, the high-protein wheat grown on the Canadian prairies was a highly valued export. The efforts undertaken to adapt wheat to Canadian agriculture, and the subsequent success of Canada’s wheat export market, contributed to building Canadian nationhood both at home and abroad. The prominence of Canadian wheat is a testament to the success of imperial agricultural developments and the connections woven by empires. Britain’s creation of an agricultural hinterland within Canada through the expansion of its empire’s food supply defined how a new nation emerged through an old-world dependency on wheat. The wheat produced by Canadian farmers flowed into both the British and French empires, filling crucial roles throughout each of these imperial structures. Divergent reactions to these imports speak to wheat’s importance both as a staple foodstuff and a bearer of cultural significance.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122376013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Deplorable Speech”: The Liberal Party vs. Anti-Catholicism during the Alexander Mackenzie Administration, 1873–1878","authors":"J. Forbes","doi":"10.7202/1050899ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1050899ar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 After decades of raising the “no popery” cry and fighting for the strict separation of church and state, Canada’s Liberal Party leaders began in the 1870s to distance themselves from their previous reputation for anti-Catholicism and from their hardline approach to church-state policy. This article examines the Alexander Mackenzie administration’s response to the Argenteuil Speech of 1875, in which Liberal cabinet minister Lucius Huntington called for all Protestants to unite with liberal Catholics to challenge the Roman Catholic Church’s rising political influence in Canada. Although several prominent Protestants applauded the speech, and Prime Minister Mackenzie himself privately admitted his agreement, the administration publicly condemned the speech as anti-Catholic and effectively crushed Huntington’s vision for the party. By forcing the party leaders to choose between their historic principles and their broader electoral appeal, Huntington’s “deplorable speech” facilitated a turning point in the Liberal Party’s approach to religious matters.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125062723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whiteness and Ambiguous Canadianization: The Boy Scouts Association and the Canadian Cadet Organization","authors":"Kevin Woodger","doi":"10.7202/1050896ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1050896ar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Between the 1920s and late 1960s, the Boy Scouts Association of Canada and the Canadian Cadet Movement proved to be ambiguous institutions for the Canadianization of certain ethnic minorities. While nationally, as agents of Anglo-conformity and settler colonialism, these movements remained rooted in a British Canadian identity, at the local level they gradually became more accommodating of particular white ethnic identities. However, this did not extend to non-white cadets and scouts, especially Aboriginal boys, who were targets for assimilation into the larger Anglo-Canadian mainstream. As such, this is in part a study of Anglo-Canadian whiteness and the ways in which shifting definitions of whiteness and national identity can be viewed through the local accommodations made by two Anglo-Canadian youth movements Aboriginal youth were subject to assimilationist programs within cadet and scout units, but, at the local level, both national movements provided greater cultural accommodation to white ethnic and religious minorities, primarily through the intervention of ethnic and religious institutions that sponsored their own Cadet or Scout units. This began during the interwar years with two of the largest white linguistic and religious minority groups, French Canadian Catholics and Jewish-Canadians, spreading to white ethnic Eastern Europeans during the postwar period.\u0000","PeriodicalId":122947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Historical Association","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116502046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}