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{"title":"Not your regular 9–5 job: First Nations chiefs in Canada","authors":"Cora Voyageur","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, I have given a great number of talks about the First Nations community in the academic, political, and public-service realm. On numerous occasions I have been quizzed by audience members about the incompetent and corrupt chiefs. I am also asked to defend their ‘exorbitant salaries’. To counter these misinformed and inaccurate notions, in this article I will give a more accurate depiction of the First Nations chiefs and their work life. I also explore the complex and restrictive world in which they must govern their heavily regulated and closely knit communities.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous artefacts and oral stories","authors":"Arzu Sardarli","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the results of studies conducted by Canadian academics in collaboration with Sturgeon Lake and Pelican Narrows First Nations communities (Saskatchewan, Canada). The objectives of the project were: (1) developing a research ethics protocol for collecting, studying, and preserving indigenous artefacts; (2) measurements of chemical compositions of artefacts; (3) collecting oral stories of Elders. Within the project, two workshops were organized in Pelican Narrows and Sturgeon Lake. Post-secondary students were trained to work on the project. The laboratory measurements of chemical compositions of artefacts were conducted at the Scanning Electron Microscope Laboratory (University of Alberta), and the Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory (University of Saskatchewan). The carbon-dating measurements were carried out at André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (University of Ottawa). The statistical analysis of chemical compositions was conducted in order to test the provenance similarities of artefacts. The project was supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Index of Articles and Reviews in Volume 35","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformation through storytelling in Margaret Atwood's latest poetry","authors":"Carla Scarano D’antonio","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In her latest poetry, Margaret Atwood explores the passing of time in her personal life and from a global perspective. The mortal human condition is investigated in our encounter with suffering and death. The writer embarks on a voyage into the underworld, where they are transformed in a confrontation with death and acquire knowledge and wisdom. This transformation is shared in language; that is, through storytelling. Accepting the dark side is crucial to understanding the duality of our world, where good and evil coexist. The protagonist feels alive and renewed despite the difficulties of ageing and the cruelties of our world. This regeneration occurs in the imagination and offers possible alternative views in a shape-shifting mode that does not give definite answers and is continuously changing. The descent into the underworld is therefore a renewal in art–that is, in poetry and storytelling–it creates life and allows survival.Abstract:Dans ses derniers poèmes, Margaret Atwood explore le passage du temps dans sa vie personnelle et dans une perspective globale. La condition humaine mortelle est étudiée dans notre rencontre avec la souffrance et la mort. L'écrivaine entreprend un voyage dans les enfers, où elle se transforme dans une confrontation avec la mort et acquiert connaissance et sagesse. Cette transformation est partagée par le langage, c'est-à-dire par la narration. Accepter le côté obscur est crucial pour comprendre la dualité de notre monde, où le bien et le mal coexistent. Le protagoniste se sent vivant et renouvelé malgré les difficultés du vieillissement et les cruautés de notre monde. Cette régénération se produit dans l'imagination et offre des points de vue alternatifs possibles dans un mode changeant qui ne donne pas de réponses définitives et qui change continuellement. La descente aux enfers est donc un renouveau dans l'art, c'est-à-dire dans la poésie et le conte ; elle crée la vie et permet la survie.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70388699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ocean liners in Canadian literature","authors":"F. Hammill","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the idea of the ocean liner in the Canadian literary imagination, asking how it has transformed from a functional machine into a powerful symbol, and how it has become a focus for dreams and terrors. The research encompasses English Canadian and French Canadian novels and poems which represent the passenger experience on a liner. Beginning with narratives of emigration, the discussion moves on to travel writing in the context of empire and then to stories of shipwreck and of war, fictions of the voyage as rite of passage, evocations of the glamour of interwar liner travel, and finally to writing about holidays.Abstract:Cet article explore le motif du paquebot dans l'imaginaire littéraire canadien, en se demandant comment il s'est transformé d'une machine fonctionnelle en un symbole puissant, et comment il est devenu un objet de fantasme et d'inquiétude. La recherche englobe des romans et des poèmes canadiens-français et canadiens-anglais qui représentent l'expérience des passagers sur un paquebot. En commençant par les récits d'émigration, la discussion passe aux récits de voyage dans le contexte colonial du XIXe siècle, puis aux récits de naufrage et de guerre, aux fictions du voyage comme rite de passage, aux évocations du glamour des traversées en paquebot de l'entre-deux-guerres, et enfin aux écrits sur les vacances.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44037473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The politics of command: The Nova Scotia experience, 1914–1916","authors":"B. Tennyson","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:When Canada went to war in August 1914 the Department of Militia and Defence mobilised and quickly sent seventeen infantry battalions to England, a figure that had risen to 260 battalions by 1916. Almost all of them were commanded by civilians who had little or no military experience other than having been active in the militia, but were prominent men in their communities. Building on Professor Matthew Barrett's 2017 article in the British Journal of Canadian Studies, '\"Natural Leaders of a Democratic Army\": Parliament Goes to War', this article is a case study of the men who were given command of Nova Scotia's ten infantry battalions, examining their qualifications and their political connections, and their success as commanding officers.Abstract:Lorsque le Canada entre en guerre en août 1914, le ministère de la Milice et de la Défense se mobilise et envoie rapidement dix-sept bataillons d'infanterie en Angleterre, chiffre qui passe à 260 bataillons en 1916. La quasi-totalité d'entre eux étaient commandés par des civils qui n'avaient que peu ou pas d'expérience militaire autre que celle d'avoir été actifs dans la milice, mais qui étaient des hommes éminents dans leurs communautés. S'appuyant sur l'article du professeur Matthew Barrett publié en 2017 dans le British Journal of Canadian Studies, '\"Natural Leaders of a Democratic Army\" : Parliament Goes to War', cet article est une étude de cas des hommes qui ont reçu le commandement des dix bataillons d'infanterie de la Nouvelle-Écosse, examinant leurs qualifications, leurs connexions politiques et leur succès en tant que commandants","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45564925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clothing in Alice Munro's 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage'","authors":"Zhongfeng Huang","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Alice Munro devotes great attention to clothing in her short stories, which finds ample evidence in the substantial description and lavish detail accorded to the characters' clothes. In her story 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', the compelling depiction of the major characters' clothing fulfills myriad functions. First, Mrs Willets's coat serves as an 'objective correlative' invested with symbolic values, which endows Johanna with power and strength as well as connecting her to the past. Moreover, McCauley's three-piece suit becomes the external indicator of his financial and social viability as well as of his authoritative power over the disadvantaged. What is more, the changes of Sabitha's dress code are suggestive of her social upgrading, her increasing distance from her bygone friendship with Edith, and her striking detachment from her past. In short, as the specific product of cultural, social and gender contexts, clothing not only plays a significant role in revealing the characters' personality, identity reconstruction and psychology, but also enriches and enlarges readers' understanding of the story as a whole. Ultimately, clothing can be read as a multilayered literary trope that casts light on the complexity of characterisation and the ambiguities in Munro's stories as well as her superb narrative art and vision.Abstract:Alice Munro accorde une grande attention aux vêtements dans ses nouvelles, ce qui trouve de nombreuses preuves dans la description substantielle et les détails somptueux accordés aux vêtements des personnages. Dans son histoire 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', la représentation fascinante des vêtements des personnages principaux remplit une myriade de fonctions. Premièrement, le manteau de Mme Willets sert de « corrélatif objectif » investi de valeurs symboliques, qui confère à Johanna du pouvoir et de la force et la relie au passé. De plus, le costume trois pièces de McCauley devient l'indicateur externe de sa viabilité financière et sociale ainsi que de son pouvoir autoritaire sur les défavorisés. En outre, les changements de code vestimentaire de Sabitha suggèrent son ascension sociale, son éloignement croissant de son amitié passée avec Edith et son détachement frappant de son passé. En bref, en tant que produit spécifique des contextes culturels, sociaux et de genre, les vêtements jouent non seulement un rôle important dans la révélation de la personnalité, de la reconstruction identitaire et de la psychologie des personnages, mais ils enrichissent et élargissent également la compréhension des lecteurs de l'histoire dans son ensemble. En fin de compte, les vêtements peuvent être lus comme un trope littéraire à plusieurs niveaux qui met en lumière la complexité de la caractérisation et les ambiguïtés des histoires de Munro ainsi que son superbe art narratif et sa vision.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45210502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135185325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The limits of the law: Aboriginal rights in the Canadian constitution","authors":"T. Scott","doi":"10.3828/bjcs.2022.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2022.9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:It has been forty years since Aboriginal rights were enshrined in the Canadian constitution. We have seen the recognition of First Nations claims to unceded land, the negotiation of self-government agreements, and the rise of Indigenous leadership across Canada. We have also seen communities without clean water, the arrests of First Nation activists protesting pipeline developments, and the continued social and economic struggles of First Nation peoples across the country. It seems, therefore, that this might be an appropriate moment for a reflection on the last forty years of Aboriginal rights in the Canadian constitution. As such, this article examines the key legal judgements in Canadian jurisprudence to reflect on how the entrenchment of Aboriginal rights has legally affected First Nations in Canada, and question whether we have reached the limits of these decisions. The article is followed by a bibliography of key literature on First Nations rights and the constitution.Abstract:Cela fait quarante ans que les droits des Autochtones sont inscrits dans la Constitution canadienne. Nous avons vu la reconnaissance des revendications des Premières Nations sur des terres non cédées, la négociation d'ententes d'autonomie gouvernementale et la montée du leadership Autochtone partout au Canada. Nous avons également vu des communautés sans eau potable, les arrestations de militants des Premières Nations qui protestaient contre le développement du pipeline et les luttes sociales et économiques continues des peuples des Premières Nations à travers le pays. Il semble donc que ce soit le moment opportun pour une réflexion sur les quarante dernières années de droits Autochtones dans la Constitution canadienne. À ce titre, cet article examine les principaux jugements juridiques de la jurisprudence canadienne afin de réfléchir à la manière dont l'enchâssement des droits Autochtones a légalement affecté les Premières Nations au Canada et de se demander si nous avons atteint les limites de la loi pour parvenir à la réconciliation. L'article est suivi d'une bibliographie de la littérature clé sur les droits des Premières Nations et la constitution.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46421946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}