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The historiography of Canada deals with the manner in which historians have depicted analyzed and debated the History of Canada. It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of those events in museums, monuments, reenactments, pageants and historic sites.
Amateur historians
Amateur historians, self-taught in the knowledge of the sources but with a limited knowledge of the historiography, dominated publications until the late 19th century.
The most influential of the amateur historians was François-Xavier Garneau (1809–1866), a self-educated poor boy who defined the essence of Quebec nationalistic history for a century with his Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu’ à nos jours (3 vol., multiple editions from 1845 onward). The first edition came under attack from Catholic Church officials for its touch of liberalism; after he revised the work the Church gave its blessing.[1] He taught the profound linkage of language, laws, and customs, and how the Catholic faith was essential to the French Canadian nationality. His ideas became dogma across Quebec, and were continued deep into the 20th century by Abbe Lionel Groulx (1878-1967), the first full-time university professor of Quebec history.[2][3][4][5]
In Anglophone Canada the most prominent amateur of his day was William Kingsford (1819 – 1898), whose History of Canada (1887-1898) was widely read by the upper middle class, as well as Anglophone teachers, despite its poor organization and pedestrian writing style. Kingsford believed that the Conquest guaranteed victory for British constitutional liberty and that it ensured material progress. He assumed the assimilation of French Canadians into a superior British culture was inevitable and desirable, for he envisioned Canada as one nation with one anglophone population.[6][7]
Lovers of the past set up local historical societies and museums preserve the documents and artifacts. Amateurs are still quite important, especially as journalists write biographies of politicians and studies of major political developments.
By far the most popular of the amateurs was the Harvard-based American Francis Parkman (1823-1893), whose nine volumes on "France and England in North America" (Boston, 1865-92) are still widely read as literary masterpieces.[8]
Organizations of professional historians
Professionalism emerged after 1890 with the founding of academic history departments at universities, and the practice of sending graduate students to Britain for advanced training in preparation for a university professorship. In 1896, George McKinnon Wrong, an Anglican clergyman, introduced modern Canadian history to the University of Toronto. He launched the Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, which was the forerunner of the Canadian Historical Review. Professionalization climaxed with the 1922 founding of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). The language became technical, and scientific, with an emphasis on gathering facts from primary sources, and avoiding grandiose patriotic claims. Women, who had been quite active in historical societies and museums, were largely excluded from professional history.[9]
The CHA has a journal and an annual convention, and gives out numerous awards For the best publications. Much of the work is done by specialized committees. For example, the Canadian Committee on Labour History, publishes its own journal Labour/Le Travail and holds an annual conference as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (the "Learneds").
Other topical interest committees include:
- Committee on Women's History
- Canadian Committee on History and Computing
- Graduate Students' Committee
- Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality
- History of Children and Youth Group
- Committee on the Second World War
- Economic Historians in Canada
- Canadian Urban History Association
- Business History Group
- Native History Study Group
- Oral History Group/Oral History Forum
- Public History Group
- Environmental History Group
- Political History Group
Political history
Much of the teaching and writing of the first generation of professional historians dealt with Canadian political history, or more exactly constitutional history. Donald Wright says:
- Neither sophisticated nor particularly interesting, English-Canadian historical writing was what it was: traditional, political, constitutional, at times sentimental, and too focused on the story of self-government, its development over time, and its ultimate achievement.... If it wasn't dry-as-dust constitutional history, it was after-dinner expressions of loyalty to Great Britain, heroic accounts of great men, and patriotic renderings of the Plains of Abraham and General Wolfe or of Queenston Heights and General Brock.[10]
The Conquest
The Conquest of New France has always been a central and contested theme of Canadian memory--as exemplified by an episode in 2009 when re-enactors were prevented from restaging the decisive 1759 battles in Quebec. . Cornelius Jaenen argues that, "The Conquest has remained a difficult subject for French-Canadian historians" as they split between a large group that see it as a highly negative economic, political and ideological disaster that threatened a way of life with materialism and Protestantism.[11] Historians of the 1950s tried to explain the economic inferiority of the French-Canadians by arguing that the Conquest:
- destroyed an integral society and decapitated the commercial class; leadership of the conquered people fell to the Church; and, because commercial activity came to be monopolized by British merchants, national survival concentrated on agriculture.[12]
At the other pole, are those Francophone historians who see the positive benefit of enabling the preservation of language, and religion and traditional customs under British rule.[13] French Canadian debates have escalated since the 1960s, as the Conquest is seen as a pivotal moment in the history of Québec's nationalism. Historian Jocelyn Létourneau suggested in the 21st century, "1759 does not belong primarily to a past that we might wish to study and understand, but, rather, to a present and a future that we might wish to shape and control."[14]
"The Monument des Braves," begun in Quebec in 1863, commemorated the Battle of Sainte-Foy the last victory won by the French in Canada during the Seven Years' War. It began a wave Of commemorations that took place across Canada between 1850 and 1930. They were designed to create memories and left out the harshness of the British conquest and bring Anglophones and Francophones closer together.[15]
Anglophone historians, in sharp contrast, typically celebrated the Conquest as a victory for British military, political and economic superiority that was a permanent benefit to the French.[13]
War of 1812
Canadian historian C.P. Stacey famously remarked that memories of the War of 1812 makes everybody happy. The Americans think they whipped the British.
- Canadians think of it equally pridefully as a war of defense in which their brave fathers, side-by-side, turned back the massed might of the United States and saved the country from conquest. And the English are the happiest of all, because they don't even know it happened.[16]
In a 2012 poll, 25% of all Canadians ranked their victory in the War of 1812 as the second most important part of their identity after free health care (53 per cent).[17]
The Canadian government spent $28 million on three years of bicentennial events, exhibits, historic sites, re-enactments, and a new national monument.[18] The official goal was to make Canadians aware that:
- Canada would not exist had the American invasion of 1812-15 been successful.
- The end of the war laid the foundation for Confederation and the emergence of Canada as a free and independent nation.
- Under the Crown, Canada’s society retained its linguistic and ethnic diversity, in contrast to the greater conformity demanded by the American Republic.[19]
In Toronto the "1812 Great Canadian Victory Party will bring the War of 1812...to life," promised the sponsors of a festival in November 2009.[20] More specifically, Ontario celebrates the war, and Quebec largely ignores it. Nationwide in 2009, 37% of Canadians thought Canada won the war, 15% thought it was a tie. But 39% know too little about it to say, including 63% in Quebec. [21]
The memory of the war of 1812 was not especially important in the decades that followed it. A powerful oligarchy closely tied to Britain controlled Upper Canada (Ontario), and their criteria for legitimacy was loyalty to London, rather than heroic episodes in the war of 1812. As result they did not promote the memory of the war.[22]
First Nations
The War of 1812 is often celebrated in Ontario as a British victory for what would become Canada in 1867, but Canadian historians in recent decades look at it as a defeat for the First Nations of Canada, and also for the merchants of Montreal (who lost the fur trade of the Michigan-Minnesota area).[23] The British had a long-standing goal of building a "neutral" but pro-British Indian buffer state in the American Midwest.[24][25] They demanded a neutral Indian state at the peace conference in 1814 but failed to gain any of it because they had lost control of the region in the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames in 1813, where Tecumseh was killed. The British then abandoned the Indians south of the lakes. The royal elite of (what is now) Ontario gained much more power in the aftermath and used that power to repel American ideas such as democracy and republicanism, especially in those areas of Ontario settled primarily by Americans. Many of those settlers returned to the states and were replaced by immigrants from Britain who were imperial-minded.[26] W. L. Morton says the war was a "stalemate" but the Americans "did win the peace negotiations."[27] Arthur Ray says the war made "matters worse for the native people" as they lost military and political power.[28] Bumsted says the war was a stalemate but regarding the Indians "was a victory for the American expansionists."[29] Thompson and Randall say "the War of 1812's real losers were the Native peoples who had fought as Britain's ally."[30]
Economic history
Economic history was central to the new interpretations developing after 1900, in part because the economists and historians were collaborating using evidence from Canadian history.
Staples thesis
Harold Innis (1894-1952), based in the history department at the University of Toronto,[31] and William Archibald Mackintosh (1895-1970), based in the economics department at Queen's University developed the Staples thesis. They argued that the Canadian Economy ( beyond the level of subsistence farming) was primarily based on exports of a series of staples-- fish, fur, timber, wheat--that shipped to Britain and the British Empire. Industrialization came much later. The thesis explains Canadian economic development as a lateral, east-west conception of trade. Innis argued that Canada developed as it did because of the nature of its staple commodities: raw materials, such as fish, fur, lumber, agricultural products and minerals. This trading link cemented Canada's cultural links to Britain. The search for and exploitation of these staples led to the creation of institutions that defined the political culture of the nation and its regions. Innis, Influenced by the Frontier thesis of American historian Frederick Jackson Turner,[32] added a sociological dimension. Innis argued that different staples led to the emergence of regional economies (and societies) within Canada. For instance, the staple commodity in Atlantic Canada was cod fishing. This industry was very decentralized, but also very co-operative. In western Canada the central staple was wheat. Wheat farming was a very independent venture, which led to a history of distrust of government and corporations in that part of the country. (Also important, however, were the shocks caused by volatility in the market for wheat and by the weather itself on the growing season.) In Central Canada, the main staple was fur, and the fur trade dominated the economy for many years. This fur trade was controlled by large firms, such as the Hudson's Bay Company and thus produced the much more centralized, business-oriented society that today characterizes Montreal and Toronto.
Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was a leading historian who built upon the Staples thesis in his The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence: 1760-1850 (1937). His Laurentian thesis showed how the English merchant class Came to dominate Canadian business through their control of the export of staples via the St-Lawrence River. They made Montreal economic, business and financial capital of Canada.[33][34] In his enormously influential biography of John A. McDonald, Creighton argued that McDonald had built upon and extended the Laurentian model by his creation of the transcontinental railway. More than that, Creighton transformed Canadian political history. For years scholars had complained about the old-fashioned, narrow, constitutional approach. They hoped Creighton could modernize the field and he came through, by adding not just biography, but also social, cultural, and especially long-term economic patterns as the matrix on which Canadian politics was played out.[35]
Core-periphery model
Innis depicted the relationship between regions of Canada as one of "heartland" to "hinterland":The periphery, or hinterland, is dominated by the core, or heartland. Because the heartland was dependent upon the search for and accumulation of staples (which were located in the hinterland) to perpetuate the economy, it sought to gain economic and political power by exploiting the hinterland.[36] Historians continue to use elements of the Innis model, applying it for example to British Columbia. That provinces economic structure exemplifies the "core-periphery" structure of intra-regional relationships. The core is metropolitan Vancouver, with its concentration of corporate management and transportation functions and manufacturing growth. It dominates an underdeveloped periphery that depends on production and export of staple commodities.[37]
Keynesian version
In the 1950s, Mackintosh revised the staples theory to position it inside the framework of Keynesian analysis. He Argued that government expenditures on infrastructure for staple exports were a special case of Keynesian counter cyclical fiscal policy. It amounted to priming of the economic pump to induce private sector investment.At the University of Saskatchewan, a team of economists led by George Britnell, Mabel Timlin, Kenneth Buckley and Vernon Fowke, Were followers of Innis and developed this approach into a "Saskatchewan school" of economic history. Fowke's published dissertation, Canadian Agricultural Policy: The Historical Pattern (1966), showed that agriculture was promoted as an "investment frontier," the profits from which were to go to interests other than agriculture. Canadian policy was never to develop agriculture so as to improve the conditions of those who cultivated the soil but to aid imperial military and political goals and provide profits for commercial interests. Vernon Fowke's published dissertation, Canadian Agricultural Policy: The Historical Pattern (1966), showed that agriculture was promoted as an "investment frontier," the profits from which were to go to interests other than agriculture. Canadian policy was never to develop agriculture so as to improve the conditions of those who cultivated the soil but to aid imperial military and political goals and provide profits for commercial interests. Vernon Fowke, Canadian Agricultural Policy: The Historical Pattern (1966) argued that Canadian agriculture was promoted as an "investment frontier" structured so that the profits went not to the farmers but to commercial interests.[38]
Confederation
There is extensive scholarly debate on the role of political ideas in Canadian Confederation. Traditionally, historians regarded Canadian Confederation an exercise in political pragmatism that was essentially non-ideological. In the 1960s, historian Peter Waite derided the references to political philosophers in the legislative debates on Confederation as "hot air". In Waite's view, Confederation was driven by pragmatic brokerage politics and competing interest groups.[39]
In 1987, political scientist Peter J. Smith challenged the view that Canadian Confederation was non-ideological. Smith argued that Confederation was motivated by new political ideologies as much as the American and French Revolutions and that Canadian Confederation was driven by a Court Party ideology. Smith traces the origins of this ideology to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain, where political life was polarized between defenders of classical republican values of the Country Party and proponents of a new pro-capitalist ideology of the Court Party, which believed in centralizing political power. In British North America in the 1860s, the Court Party tradition was represented by the supporters of Confederation, whereas the anti-capitalist and agrarian Country Party tradition was embodied by the Anti-Confederates.[40]
In a 2000 journal article, historian Ian McKay argued that Canadian Confederation was motivated by the ideology of liberalism and the belief in the supremacy of individual rights. McKay described Confederation as part of the classical liberal project of creating a "liberal order" in northern North America.[41] Many Canadian historians have adopted McKay's liberal order framework as a paradigm for understanding Canadian history.[42]
In 2008, historian Andrew Smith advanced a very different view of Confederation’s ideological origins. He argues that in the four original Canadian provinces, the politics of taxation were a central issue in the debate about Confederation. Taxation was also central to the debate in Newfoundland, the tax-averse colony that rejected it. Smith argued Confederation was supported by many colonists who were sympathetic to a relatively interventionist, or statist, approach to capitalist development. Most classical liberals, who believed in free trade and low taxes, opposed Confederation because they feared that it would result in Big Government. The struggle over Confederation involved a battle between a staunchly individualist economic philosophy and a comparatively collectivist view of the state’s proper role in the economy. According to Smith, the victory of the statist supporters of Confederation over their anti-statist opponents prepared the way for Sir John A. Macdonald’s government to enact the protectionist National Policy and to subsidize major infrastructure projects such the Intercolonial and Pacific Railways.[43]
In 2007, political scientist Janet Ajzenstat connected Canadian Confederation to the individualist ideology of John Locke. She argued that the union of the British North American colonies was motivated by a desire to protect individual rights, especially the rights to life, liberty, and property. She contends that the Fathers of Confederation were motivated by the values of the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She argues that their intellectual debts to Locke are most evident when one looks at the 1865 debates in the Province of Canada’s legislature on whether or not union with the other British North American colonies would be desirable.[44]
Ethnic history
Roberto Perin looks at the historiography of Canadian ethnic history and finds two alternative methodologies. One is more static and emphasizes how closely immigrant cultures replicate the Old World. This approach tends to be filiopietistic. The alternative approach has been influenced by the recent historiography on labor, urban, and family history. It sees the immigrant community as an essentially North American phenomenon and integrates it into the mainstream of Canadian culture.[45]
Historians change their perspective
Since the 1980s, historians have sharply revise their approach to Canadian history. Political history had been the dominant mode. The flagship Canadian Historical Review was heavily weighted toward political history, giving priority to macro themes such as elite politicians and statesmen, public institutions, and national issues. By 2000, however, the same journal gave two-thirds of its space to social history. Furthermore micro topics with a narrow geographical and chronological focus have largely replaced wide-lens macro themes. Glassford argues that:
- The Big Questions are now seen to be societally based, and emanate from a cultural interpretation of such fundamental concepts as social class, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, and sexual orientation. Micro-analysis has at least as much validity in the new model as macro.[46]
A backlash erupted from conservative historians, typified by political and military specialist Jack Granatstein who charged that social historians had "killed" Canadian history by displacing the traditional Whig narrative of upward political, diplomatic, and military progress with microscopic studies of the underclass, the trivial, and the inconsequential.".[47][48] Granatstein recalls the backlash:
- As the old white males rallied themselves and fought back, the resulting war produced heavy casualties, much bloodshed, and vast expenditures of time and effort. The political historians believed that narrative was important, that chronology mattered, and that the study of the past could not neglect the personalities of the leaders and the nations they lead. The social historians had no interest in the history of the "elites" and almost none in political history, except to denounce repressiveness of Canadian governments and business....Blame had to be allocated. Canada was guilty of genocide against the Indians, the bombing of Germany, the ecological rape of the landscape, and so on. Their aim was to use history, or their version of it, to cure white males of their sense of superiority.[49]
Women
The woman's history movement began in the 1970s and grew rapidly across Canadian universities, attracting support from history departments and other disciplines as well. The Canadian Committee on Women's History (CCWH) was founded in 1975. Franca Iacovetta reported in 2007:
- Although the most prestigious awards and endowed chairs still go mostly to men, and men still outnumber women at the full professor rank, the greater influence of feminist historians within the wider profession is evident in their increased presence as journal and book series editors, the many scholarly prizes, the strong presence of women's and gender history on conference programs, and the growing number of their students who are in full-time positions.[50]
Quebec
The history of women in Québec was generally neglected before 1980.[51][52] The advent of the feminist movement, combined with the "New social history" that featured the study of ordinary people, created a new demand for a historiography of women. The first studies, emerged from a feminist perspective, and stressed their role as the terms who had been reduced to inferiority in a world controlled by men. Feminists sought the family itself as the centerpiece of the patriarchal system where fathers and husbands oppressed and alienated women. The second stage came when historians presented a more positive and balanced view.[53] Research has often been interdisciplinary, using insights from feminist theory, literature, anthropology and sociology to study gender relations, socialization, reproduction, sexuality, and unpaid work. Labour and family history have proved particularly open to these themes.[54]
Environmental history
Canadian historians have always paid close attention to geography, but until the 1980s they largely ignored the Canadian environment, except to point how cold the northerly nation is. More recently, explorers have ventured into new areas, but no overarching or major reinterpretation has swept the field. Two of the most widely noted books are Tina Loo, States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century (2006), and John Sandlos, Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories (2007).[55][56][57]
Publications
Scholarly articles and in-depth reviews of new historical studies appear in these journals:
- Acadiensis, covers Atlantic Canada
- Alberta history[58]
- American Review of Canadian Studies[59]
- British Columbia History[60]
- Canada's History, Formerly The Beaver (1920 – 2010)
- Canadian Historical Review, the major scholarly journal
- Histoire sociale/Social History, focus on Canada[61]
- Labour/Le Travail
- London Journal of Canadian Studies[62]
- Manitoba History[63]
- Ontario History[64]
- Quebec Studies[65]
- Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française focus on Quebec[66]
- Saskatchewan History
- Urban History Review - Revue d'histoire urbaine[67]
See also
- Canada Vignettes
- Canadian identity
- Heritage Minutes
- List of Canadian historians
- List of museums in Canada
- National Historic Sites of Canada
- War of 1812 Bicentennial
Notes
- ↑ Saint-Martin,, Louis-Ph. (1954). "L’histoire du Canada de F.-X. Garneau et la critique". Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 8 (3): 380–394. doi:10.7202/301665ar.
- ↑ Martin Brook Taylor; Doug Owram (1994). Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation. p. 117.]
- ↑ Pierre Savard and Paul Wyczynski, "GARNEAU, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER, in Dictionary of Canadian Biography vol. 9, December 15, 2015
- ↑ Serge Gagnon, Quebec and Its Historians: 1840 To 1920 (1981)
- ↑ The influence of Garneau and Groulx extends well into the 21st century in Québec's school textbooks. Olivier Lemieux and Catherine Côté. "Étude des programmes et des manuels d’histoire du Québec de 1967 à 2012." Bulletin d'histoire politique 22#3 (2014): 145-157. abstract
- ↑ M. Brook Taylor, "KINGSFORD, WILLIAM," Dictionary of Canadian Biography vol. 12, (2003), accessed December 15, 2015.
- ↑ James K. McConica, "Kingsford and Whiggery in Canadian History." Canadian Historical Review 40#2 (1959): 108-120.
- ↑ Daniel R. Woolf (1998). A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. p. 696.
- ↑ Donald Wright, The Professionalization of History in English Canada (U. of Toronto Press, 2005); 1999 PhD dissertation version
- ↑ Donald Wright (2015). Donald Creighton: A Life in History. p. 162.
- ↑ Cornelius J. Jaenen, "Canada during the French regime," in D.A. Muise, ed. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: 1: Beginnings to Confederation (1982) p 40
- ↑ Carl Berger (1986). The writing of Canadian history: aspects of English-Canadian historical writing since 1900. U of Toronto Press. pp. 185–86.
- 1 2 Jaenen, "Canada during the French regime," (1982) p 40
- ↑ Phillip Buckner and John G. Reid, eds., Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory (U of Toronto Press, 2012) p 279
- ↑ Patrice Groulx, "La Commemoration de la Bataille de Sainte-Foy: du discours de la Loyaute a la 'Fusion des Races," ["Commemoration of the Battle of Sainte-Foy: from the discourse of loyalty to the "fusion of the races"] Revue d'histoire de L'Amerique francaise (2001) 55#1 pp 45-83.
- ↑ Michael Lucas; Julie M Schablitsky (2014). Archaeology of the War of 1812. Left Coast Press. p. 33.
- ↑ Jasper Trautsch, "Review of Whose War of 1812? Competing Memories of the Anglo-American Conflict," Reviews in History (review no. 1387) 2013; Revise 2014, accessed: 10 December, 2015
- ↑ Trautsch, "Review of Whose War of 1812? Competing Memories of the Anglo-American Conflict,"
- ↑ Government of Canada, "The War of 1812, Historical Overview, Did You Know?"
- ↑ There is no mention of the historians in the announcement of "Great 1812 Canadian Victory Party"
- ↑ Jack Jedwab, "Most Canadians say we won the War of 1812; But Quebecers uncertain," Association for Canadian Studies December 6, 2009
- ↑ Martin Brook Taylor (1989). Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-century English Canada. p. 137.
- ↑ "The Indians and the fur merchants of Montreal had lost in the end," says Randall White, Ontario: 1610-1985 p. 75
- ↑ Dwight L. Smith, "A North American Neutral Indian Zone: Persistence of a British Idea" Northwest Ohio Quarterly 1989 61(2-4): 46-63
- ↑ Francis M. Carroll (2001). A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842. U of Toronto Press. p. 24.
- ↑ Fred Landon, Western Ontario and the American Frontier (1941) p. 44; see also Gerald M. Craig, Upper Canada: The Formative Years, 1784-1841 (1963)
- ↑ Morton, Kingdom of Canada 1969 pp 206-7
- ↑ Arthur Ray in Craig Brown ed. Illustrated History of Canada (2000) p 102.
- ↑ J. M. Bumsted, Peoples of Canada (2003) 1:244-45
- ↑ John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall, Canada and the United States (2008) p. 23
- ↑ Carl Berger, "The Writing of Canadian History (1976) pp. 85–111.
- ↑ Morris Zaslow, "The Frontier Thesis in Recent Historiography", Canadian Historical Review (1948) 29#1 pp 153-67.
- ↑ Donald Wright (2015). Donald Creighton: A Life in History. p. 358.
- ↑ Donald A. Wright, "Review of 'The Empire of the St.Lawrence: A Study in Commerce and Politicsm'" in Canadian Historical Review (2004) 85#3 pp. 555-558
- ↑ Wright (2015). Donald Creighton. p. 211.
- ↑ "Staples Theory" in Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan, from Library and Archives Canada
- ↑ Thomas A. Hutton, "The Innisian core-periphery revisited: Vancouver's changing relationships with British Columbia's staple economy." BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 113 (1997): 69-100. online
- ↑ Robin Neill, "Economiic Historiography in the 1950s: The Saskatchewan School," Journal of Canadian Studies (1999) online
- ↑ See Introduction by Ged Martin in Peter B. Waite, The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865 A Selection (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
- ↑ Peter J. Smith, "The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation", Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne De Science Politique (1987) 20#1: 3–29.
- ↑ I. Mckay, "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History". Canadian Historical Review (2000) 81: 617–645.
- ↑ Michel Ducharme and Jean-François Constant, Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
- ↑ Andrew Smith, "Toryism, Classical Liberalism, and Capitalism: The Politics of Taxation and the Struggle for Canadian Confederation". Canadian Historical Review (2008) 89#1 : 1–25.
- ↑ Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007)
- ↑ Roberto Perin, "Clio as Ethnic: The Third Force in Canadian Historiography," Canadian Historical Review, (1983) 64#4: 441-467
- ↑ Larry A. Glassford, "The Evolution of 'New Political History' in English-Canadian Historiography: From Cliometrics to Cliodiversity," American Review of Canadian Studies (2002) 32#3 online
- ↑ J. L. Granatstein, Who Killed Canadian History (1st ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2007) pp 53-78
- ↑ Franca Iacovetta, "Gendering Trans/National Historiographies: Feminists Rewriting Canadian History." Journal of Women's History (2007) p 210
- ↑ Granatstein, Who Killed Canadian History p 59 quoted in Peter Farrugia, ed. (2005). The River of History: Trans-national and Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past. U of Calgary Press. p. 9.
- ↑ Franca Iacovetta, "Gendering Trans/National Historiographies: Feminists Rewriting Canadian History." Journal of Women's History (2007) 19#1 pp 206-213.
- ↑
- Lévesque, Andrée. "Historiography: History of Women in Québec Since 1985." Quebec Studies 12 (1991): 83-91.
- ↑ Clio Collective, Micheline Dumont and Michele Jean, Quebec Women: A History (1987)
- ↑ Fernand Ouellet, "The Social Condition of Women and the Women's Movement," in Ouellet, Economy, Class, and Nation in Québec: Interpretive Essays (1991) pp 265-89
- ↑ Andrée Lévesque, "Reflexions sur l'histoire des Femmes sans l'histoire du Quebec," [Reflections on the history of women in the history of Quebec] Revue d'histoire de L'Amerique francaise (1997) 51#2 pp 271-284
- ↑ Sverker Sörlin, "The Historiography of the Enigmatic North" Canadian Historical Review (2014) 95#4 pp 555-566.
- ↑ the first efforts appear in Chad Gaffield and Pam Gaffield, eds., Consuming Canada: Readings in environmental history (1995)
- ↑ 3 David Freeland Duke, ed., Canadian Environmental History: Essential Readings (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2006)
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Further reading
- Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. (1990). 156 pp.
- Berger, Carl. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900 (2nd ed. 1986), 364pp evaluates ther work of most of the leading 20th century historians of Canada.
- Berger, Carl, ed. Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing (1987)
- Bliss, Michael. "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (Winter 1991-92): 5-17
- Brandt, Gail Cuthbert. "National Unity and the Politics of Political History," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 3 (1992): 3-11
- Buckner, Phillip and John G. Reid, eds. Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory (U of Toronto Press, 2012)
- Careless, J. M. S. "Canadian Nationalism — Immature or Obsolete?" Report of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association / Rapports annuels de la Société historique du Canada (1954) 33#1 pp: 12-19. online
- Conrad, Margaret et al. Canadians and Their Pasts (University of Toronto Press, 2013) Uses telephone surveys with 3,419 respondents in 2007 to ask how they “use history to situate themselves in the present and plan for the future”
- Dick, Lyle. "A Growing Necessity for Canada: W. L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80," Canadian Historical Review 82#2 (2001), 223-252.
- Edwards, Justin D.l and Douglas Ivison. Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (2005)
- Frenette, Yves. "Conscripting Canada’s Past: The Harper Government and the Politics of Memory" Canadian Journal of History (2014) 49#2: 49–65
- Fulford, Robert, David Godfrey, and Abraham Rotstein. Read Canadian: a book about Canadian books (1972) 275pp; topical chapters that comment on the best historical and current studies
- Gagnon, Serge. Quebec and its Historians: 1840 to 1920 (English ed. 1982; French ed. 1978)
- Gagnon, Serge. Quebec and its Historians: The Twentieth Century (English ed. 1985)
- Glassford, Larry A. "The Evolution of 'New Political History' in English-Canadian Historiography: From Cliometrics to Cliodiversity." American Review of Canadian Studies. 32#3 (2002).
- Granatstein, J. L. Who Killed Canadian History? (2000)
- Granatstein, J. L. and Paul Stevens, eds. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
- Greer, Allan. "National, Transnational, and Hypernational Historiographies: New France Meets Early American History." Canadian Historical Review 91#4 (2010): 695-724. online
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External links
- Historiography in English - The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Historiography of Canada (Quebec History) - Marianopolis College
- "Economic history," from Canadian Encyclopedia
- "Oral History" from Canadian Encyclopedia
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