Canada And the British World: Culture, Migration, And Identity

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
1 “Information Wanted”: Women Emigrants in a Transatlantic World......Page 19
2 Self-Reflection in the Consolidation of Scottish Identity: A Case Study in Family Correspondence, 1805-50......Page 38
3 Entering the Christian World: Indigenous Missionaries in Rupert’s Land......Page 54
4 Law and British Culture in the Creation of British North America......Page 73
5 New Brunswick Women Travellers and the British Connection, 1845-1905......Page 85
6 “Our Glorious Anglo-Saxon Race Shall Ever Fill Earth’s Highest Place”: The Anglo-Saxon and the Construction of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada......Page 101
7 Canada’s Boys – An Imperial or National Asset? Response to Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout Movement in Pre-War Canada......Page 120
8 Part of the British Empire, Too: French Canada and Colonization Propaganda......Page 138
9 Competing Visions: Canada, Britain, and the Writing of the First World War......Page 151
10 Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memoralization......Page 166
11 Scrutinizing the “Submerged Tenth”: Salvation Army Immigrants and Their Reception in Canada......Page 183
12 Enigmas in Hebridean Emigration: Crofter Colonists in Western Canada......Page 207
13 Nation-Building in Saskatchewan: Teachers from the British Isles in Saskatchewan Rural Schools in the 1920s......Page 224
14 Brushes, Budgets, and Butter: Canadian Culture and Identity at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25......Page 243
15 Instructor to Empire: Canada and the Rhodes Scholarship, 1902-39......Page 259
16 The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in the 1930s: How Canada’s First Public Broadcaster Negotiated “Britishness”......Page 279
17 Canadian Labour Politics and the British Model, 1920-50......Page 297
18 Historical Perspective on Britain: The Ideas of Canadian Historians Frank H. Underhill and Arthur R.M. Lower......Page 318
19 The Monarchy, the Mounties, and Ye Olde English Fayre: Identity at All Saints’ Anglican, Edmonton, 1875-1990s......Page 331
Contributors......Page 348
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