Lisa Rose Mar
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199733132
- eISBN:
- 9780199866533
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733132.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, World Medieval History
This work traces several generations of Chinese “brokers,” ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. At the time, most Chinese could not vote and many ...
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This work traces several generations of Chinese “brokers,” ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. At the time, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Brokers’ work reveals the changing boundaries between Chinese and Anglo worlds and how tensions among Chinese shaped them. By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics, this book alters common understandings of how legally “alien” groups helped create modern immigrant nations. Over several generations, brokers deeply embedded Chinese immigrants in the larger Canadian, U.S., and Chinese politics of their time. On the nineteenth-century Western frontier, Chinese businessmen competed with each other to represent their community. By the early 1920s, a new generation of brokers based in social movements challenged traditional brokers, shifting the power dynamic within the Chinese community. During the Second World War, social movements helped reconfigure both brokerage and race relations. Based on new Chinese language evidence, this book recounts history from the “middle,” a view that is neither bottom up nor top down. Through brokerage, Chinese wielded considerable influence, navigating a period of anti-Asian sentiment and exclusion throughout society. Consequently, Chinese immigrants became significant players in race relations, influencing policies that affected all Canadians and Americans.Less
This work traces several generations of Chinese “brokers,” ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. At the time, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Brokers’ work reveals the changing boundaries between Chinese and Anglo worlds and how tensions among Chinese shaped them. By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics, this book alters common understandings of how legally “alien” groups helped create modern immigrant nations. Over several generations, brokers deeply embedded Chinese immigrants in the larger Canadian, U.S., and Chinese politics of their time. On the nineteenth-century Western frontier, Chinese businessmen competed with each other to represent their community. By the early 1920s, a new generation of brokers based in social movements challenged traditional brokers, shifting the power dynamic within the Chinese community. During the Second World War, social movements helped reconfigure both brokerage and race relations. Based on new Chinese language evidence, this book recounts history from the “middle,” a view that is neither bottom up nor top down. Through brokerage, Chinese wielded considerable influence, navigating a period of anti-Asian sentiment and exclusion throughout society. Consequently, Chinese immigrants became significant players in race relations, influencing policies that affected all Canadians and Americans.
Phillip Buckner
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199563746
- eISBN:
- 9780191701900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563746.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the historical relationship of Canada to the British Empire. The main argument of this book is that Canada has been a ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the historical relationship of Canada to the British Empire. The main argument of this book is that Canada has been a predominantly British nation for nearly two centuries and that the Canadians were not unenthusiastic imperialists. It also examines the extent to which Canada was influenced and shaped by its association with the British Empire.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the historical relationship of Canada to the British Empire. The main argument of this book is that Canada has been a predominantly British nation for nearly two centuries and that the Canadians were not unenthusiastic imperialists. It also examines the extent to which Canada was influenced and shaped by its association with the British Empire.
John Herd Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199563746
- eISBN:
- 9780191701900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563746.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter examines relations between Canada and the British Empire during the period from 1901 to 1939. Canada's formal constitutional ties to Britain were slim and for all practical purposes ...
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This chapter examines relations between Canada and the British Empire during the period from 1901 to 1939. Canada's formal constitutional ties to Britain were slim and for all practical purposes Canada governed itself domestically. Though Britain theoretically controlled Canada's external affairs, Canada made its own decisions about the extent to which it would participate in British international initiatives. The most obvious connection with Britain was with the Crown, and this was with the mourning of Canadian of the death of Queen Victoria.Less
This chapter examines relations between Canada and the British Empire during the period from 1901 to 1939. Canada's formal constitutional ties to Britain were slim and for all practical purposes Canada governed itself domestically. Though Britain theoretically controlled Canada's external affairs, Canada made its own decisions about the extent to which it would participate in British international initiatives. The most obvious connection with Britain was with the Crown, and this was with the mourning of Canadian of the death of Queen Victoria.
Brian C. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042706
- eISBN:
- 9780252051562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042706.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Music in Canada during World War I illuminates the country’s history and cultural identity. In some ways it paralleled music in Britain: for the public, initial enthusiasm was followed by ...
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Music in Canada during World War I illuminates the country’s history and cultural identity. In some ways it paralleled music in Britain: for the public, initial enthusiasm was followed by disillusionment and resistance to conscription; for soldiers, music was a diversion and an inspiration. The interplay between French- and English-speaking cultures, however, was unique to Canada. Le Passe-temps (Montreal) published many scores and articles that reflected Francophone concerns; and the Anglophone public and troops united in publishing various soldiers’ songbooks, some associated with specific regiments. Little memorial music was composed, but the war poem “In Flanders’ Fields” by Canadian John McCrae became a lasting and universal contribution to remembrance.Less
Music in Canada during World War I illuminates the country’s history and cultural identity. In some ways it paralleled music in Britain: for the public, initial enthusiasm was followed by disillusionment and resistance to conscription; for soldiers, music was a diversion and an inspiration. The interplay between French- and English-speaking cultures, however, was unique to Canada. Le Passe-temps (Montreal) published many scores and articles that reflected Francophone concerns; and the Anglophone public and troops united in publishing various soldiers’ songbooks, some associated with specific regiments. Little memorial music was composed, but the war poem “In Flanders’ Fields” by Canadian John McCrae became a lasting and universal contribution to remembrance.
Robert T. Handy
- Published in print:
- 1976
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269106
- eISBN:
- 9780191683572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269106.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter describes the quite different history of the churches in Canada. During the 18th century, the struggle between Catholic France and Protestant Britain for political control of Canada was ...
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This chapter describes the quite different history of the churches in Canada. During the 18th century, the struggle between Catholic France and Protestant Britain for political control of Canada was decisively settled in favour of the latter. The dramatic events of the period 1720–1800 are of decisive importance for understanding Canadian religious history. The problems of a colonial Catholic establishment are first introduced. It then explores the French Catholicism under the British. In addition, description on the growth of Protestantism in the Maritime Provinces, and Protestant beginnings in Quebec and Ontario is provided.Less
This chapter describes the quite different history of the churches in Canada. During the 18th century, the struggle between Catholic France and Protestant Britain for political control of Canada was decisively settled in favour of the latter. The dramatic events of the period 1720–1800 are of decisive importance for understanding Canadian religious history. The problems of a colonial Catholic establishment are first introduced. It then explores the French Catholicism under the British. In addition, description on the growth of Protestantism in the Maritime Provinces, and Protestant beginnings in Quebec and Ontario is provided.
Lewis R. Fischer
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780969588580
- eISBN:
- 9781786944856
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780969588580.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
This chapter surveys the trends and topics in literature surrounding Canadian naval history published in the past twenty years. Topics explored in the essay are merchant shipping; shipping companies; ...
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This chapter surveys the trends and topics in literature surrounding Canadian naval history published in the past twenty years. Topics explored in the essay are merchant shipping; shipping companies; shipbuilding; ports; fishing; maritime labour; and naval history.Less
This chapter surveys the trends and topics in literature surrounding Canadian naval history published in the past twenty years. Topics explored in the essay are merchant shipping; shipping companies; shipbuilding; ports; fishing; maritime labour; and naval history.
Katie Trumpener
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637744
- eISBN:
- 9780748652143
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter reviews Scotland's most complex nineteenth-century colonial novel, John Galt's half-forgotten 1831 Bogle Corbet, or the Emigrants, against Alice Munro's fiction. Galt and Munro inhabit ...
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This chapter reviews Scotland's most complex nineteenth-century colonial novel, John Galt's half-forgotten 1831 Bogle Corbet, or the Emigrants, against Alice Munro's fiction. Galt and Munro inhabit very different temporal, political and literary moments, yet describe the same area, in present-day Ontario, while sharing an interest in the local texture of historical experience, using annalistic accretion to ground new forms of historical fiction. In Bogle Corbet, most ambitiously, Scotland appears as part of a worldwide imperial-industrial circuit. Bogle Corbet echoes the template of cultural encounter that Columbus established and Shakespeare allegorised. Munro grapples not with Galt's content but with his formal innovations, not with his ignorance, pre-emptory dismissal or suppression of Canadian history, but with the myriad possibilities his novels open up — for local history, a corrective, complex historiography, new forms of fictional meditation.Less
This chapter reviews Scotland's most complex nineteenth-century colonial novel, John Galt's half-forgotten 1831 Bogle Corbet, or the Emigrants, against Alice Munro's fiction. Galt and Munro inhabit very different temporal, political and literary moments, yet describe the same area, in present-day Ontario, while sharing an interest in the local texture of historical experience, using annalistic accretion to ground new forms of historical fiction. In Bogle Corbet, most ambitiously, Scotland appears as part of a worldwide imperial-industrial circuit. Bogle Corbet echoes the template of cultural encounter that Columbus established and Shakespeare allegorised. Munro grapples not with Galt's content but with his formal innovations, not with his ignorance, pre-emptory dismissal or suppression of Canadian history, but with the myriad possibilities his novels open up — for local history, a corrective, complex historiography, new forms of fictional meditation.
Donald Wright and Christopher Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199533091
- eISBN:
- 9780191804359
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199533091.003.0020
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses that while there are striking similarities between the historiographies of Canada and South Africa, there are also significant differences. In Canada, the writing of Canadian ...
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This chapter discusses that while there are striking similarities between the historiographies of Canada and South Africa, there are also significant differences. In Canada, the writing of Canadian history from 1800 to 1945 was characterized not simply by the effort to explain the past, but by the imperative to transform the present from a question into an answer and narrate a purpose or even a mission. This chapter further mentions that like in Canada, many historians in South Africa wrote of the past as if indigenous people had no significant history of their own, and all historical writing remained Eurocentric. But unlike in Canada the central theme of historical writing on South Africa was how whites had interacted with the black majority.Less
This chapter discusses that while there are striking similarities between the historiographies of Canada and South Africa, there are also significant differences. In Canada, the writing of Canadian history from 1800 to 1945 was characterized not simply by the effort to explain the past, but by the imperative to transform the present from a question into an answer and narrate a purpose or even a mission. This chapter further mentions that like in Canada, many historians in South Africa wrote of the past as if indigenous people had no significant history of their own, and all historical writing remained Eurocentric. But unlike in Canada the central theme of historical writing on South Africa was how whites had interacted with the black majority.
