Project MUSE®: The Canadian Historical Review - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Canadian Historical Review.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1920) through current issue (with gap in vol. 59)Latest Articles: The Canadian Historical ReviewTWOProject MUSE®The Canadian Historical Review1710-10930008-3755Latest articles in The Canadian Historical Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize, 2024
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988262
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The editorial board of The Canadian Historical Review congratulates Colby Gaudet for his article “‘Toutes sortes de vices’: Possession, Healing, and Religious Convergences in Early Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia.” The Canadian Historical Review prize is awarded annually to the author of the article who best demonstrates the finest qualities of advanced historical scholarship: an original and compelling argument that engages and contributes to the historiography, deep research and analysis usually engaging primary sources, and well-crafted writing. Gaudet’s article is in the volume 105, number 2, June 2024 issue.Rosalie Cottreau and Anne Doucet, two teenage Acadian girls, are at the centre of Gaudet’s captivating
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallThe Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize, 20242026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize, 20242026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®27492026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Prix du meilleur article de la Canadian Historical Review pour 2024
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988263
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Le comité de rédaction de la Canadian Historical Review félicitent Colby Gaudet pour son article intitulé « ’Toutes sortes de vices’ : Possession, Healing, and Religious Convergences in Early Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia». Le prix de la Canadian Historical Review est décerné chaque année à l’article qui témoigne le mieux les qualités de la recherche historique de pointe : un argument original et convaincant qui contribue à l’historiographie, une recherche et une analyse approfondies faisant généralement appel à des sources historiques, et une rédaction soignée. L’article de Colby Gaudet a été publié dans le volume 105, numéro 2, en juin 2024.Rosalie Cottreau et Anne Doucet, deux adolescentes acadiennes, sont au
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallPrix du meilleur article de la Canadian Historical Review pour 20242026-04-14text/htmlen-USPrix du meilleur article de la Canadian Historical Review pour 20242026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®30302026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Wishful Thinking: Extractive Ideology and Reclamation in Alberta, 1947–73
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988264
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In November 1968, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (cbc) Sunday magazine show The Way It Is aired a documentary by John Livingston on strip mining in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.1 Livingston was a naturalist and writer, best known to Canadians as the narrator of the Hinterland Who’s Who interludes that appeared on cbc television for decades.2 Livingston wanted to introduce Canadians to strip mining, a practice by then well established in Appalachia and which was beginning on a large scale in the East Kootenays and Crowsnest Pass in the late 1960s. The report generated enormous interest, prompting a follow-up in December and then another documentary in January 1970 on a different Sunday night program, The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallWishful Thinking: Extractive Ideology and Reclamation in Alberta, 1947–732026-04-14text/htmlen-USWishful Thinking: Extractive Ideology and Reclamation in Alberta, 1947–732026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1377922026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14“A German Fighting Ship Appeared in the Harbour This Morning”: The Controversial Visit of the German Cruiser Emden to Montreal, May 1936
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988265
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On 12 May 1936, the German light cruiser Emden, representing the brutal Nazi regime, docked in Montreal. A German man-of-war, itself perpetuating the name of a famously successful German First World War warship, flying a very large Swastika flag, sailed boldly into the port of Canada’s largest city and stayed for six days. Many Canadians found it remarkable, and perhaps unnerving, that so obvious a symbol of a dictatorial and increasingly hostile Germany would visit Canada. Why had the ship come? Emden’s visit to Montreal has gone completely undocumented in the historical literature on Canadian diplomacy, Canadian-German relations, the City of Montreal, the Canadian Left, German ethnic communities in Canada
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmall“A German Fighting Ship Appeared in the Harbour This Morning”: The Controversial Visit of the German Cruiser Emden to Montreal, May 19362026-04-14text/htmlen-US“A German Fighting Ship Appeared in the Harbour This Morning”: The Controversial Visit of the German Cruiser Emden to Montreal, May 19362026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1159062026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Esquimalt and Its Latin American Connection: Linking British Concerns in Pacific Latin America to the Establishment of a Naval Base on Vancouver Island
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988266
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From 1859 until 1905, Esquimalt Harbour on the southern end of Vancouver Island served as a central location for the projection of British imperial authority in British Columbia and throughout the North Pacific. The base was the heart of a naval presence that proved central to both the provincial history of British Columbia and, as the home of Canada’s Pacific fleet since 1910, to the national story of Canada as well. It is typically reasoned that the development of the Esquimalt base was a result of the growing importance of the North Pacific to Great Britain. This is seemingly supported by the navy’s decision to officially name Esquimalt as the headquarters of the Pacific Station in 1865, although the fact that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallEsquimalt and Its Latin American Connection: Linking British Concerns in Pacific Latin America to the Establishment of a Naval Base on Vancouver Island2026-04-14text/htmlen-USEsquimalt and Its Latin American Connection: Linking British Concerns in Pacific Latin America to the Establishment of a Naval Base on Vancouver Island2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®975182026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14“Political Memories, Are, I Am Aware, Very Short”: Frank J.D. Barnjum, from Party Loyalist to Expendable, Ephemeral Kingmaker, 1899–1927
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988267
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Unprecedented change, uncertainty, and instability marked Canadian society during the interwar years; the standard history of the period is aptly entitled Decades of Discord, 1922–39. These years of tumult collectively marked a fundamental turning point in Canadian political history because they witnessed the fracturing of the dominion’s two-party polity. Instead of the electorate having to choose solely between Liberal and Conservative candidates, now it could vote for office seekers whose new parties – from the United Farmers of Ontario to the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation – reflected a wide range of both regional and socio-economic interests. This new political landscape presented opportunities
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmall“Political Memories, Are, I Am Aware, Very Short”: Frank J.D. Barnjum, from Party Loyalist to Expendable, Ephemeral Kingmaker, 1899–19272026-04-14text/htmlen-US“Political Memories, Are, I Am Aware, Very Short”: Frank J.D. Barnjum, from Party Loyalist to Expendable, Ephemeral Kingmaker, 1899–19272026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1250432026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14A Conversation About Generative Artificial Intelligence
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988268
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Generative artificial intelligence (gen ai) came to widespread attention in November 2022 with the public release of Open ai’s Chatgpt. Within months, it had reached more than one hundred million users and has continued to grow, and improve, rapidly. At the request of the Canadian Historical Review, William Turkel approached two dozen scholars – primarily, ones who had published on ai and/or digital history and had not worked closely with Turkel in the past. We ended up with a smaller group who met the following spring in two Zoom sessions to discuss topics, ideas, and questions. Participants expanded and edited the notes from those sessions in a Google Doc, and the notes were then given to Google Gemini so that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallA Conversation About Generative Artificial Intelligence2026-04-14text/htmlen-USA Conversation About Generative Artificial Intelligence2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®1918962026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14La diplomatie entre Français et peuples autochtones au temps de Champlain : « Jeter les fondements d’un édifice perpétuel » by Mathieu d’Avignon (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988269
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Depuis 25 ans, Mathieu d’Avignon, chercheur affilié au Groupe de recherche sur l’histoire du Québec à Chicoutimi, s’interroge sur la mémoire collective québécoise et revisite les récits fondateurs du Québec, et plus particulièrement la figure héroïque de Samuel de Champlain. En 2008, il a publié, aux Presses de l’Université Laval, Champlain et les fondateurs oubliés. En 2025, il a fait paraître, chez le même éditeur, La diplomatie entre Français et peuples autochtones au temps de Champlain. Après avoir précédemment mis en lumière les cofondateurs Pierre Dugua de Mons, François Gravé et Anadabijou, il s’efforce maintenant de montrer que les alliances franco-autochtones ont dicté la stratégie de Champlain.Dans son
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallLa diplomatie entre Français et peuples autochtones au temps de Champlain : « Jeter les fondements d’un édifice perpétuel » by Mathieu d’Avignon (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USLa diplomatie entre Français et peuples autochtones au temps de Champlain : « Jeter les fondements d’un édifice perpétuel » by Mathieu d’Avignon (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®80242026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Avanimiut: A History of Inuit Independence in Northern Labrador by Carol Brice-Bennett (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988270
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The approach and content of Avanimiut reflects its unusual provenance. Entitled “The Northlanders” (the name Moravian missionaries applied to Inuit living in northern Labrador), it was initially a confidential 1996 report to the Labrador Inuit Association (lia) in support of its land claim negotiations. Author anthropologist Carol Brice-Bennett had previously done important work for the lia – most notably, editing the key document, Our Footprints Are Everywhere: Land Use and Occupancy in Labrador in 1977. Brice-Bennett subsequently worked on revising “The Northlanders” for publication, but it was incomplete on her 2018 passing. Lena Onalik, a Nunatsiavut government archeologist and descendent of Avanimiut (people
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallAvanimiut: A History of Inuit Independence in Northern Labrador by Carol Brice-Bennett (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USAvanimiut: A History of Inuit Independence in Northern Labrador by Carol Brice-Bennett (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®83832026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion by Éléna Choquette (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988271
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Land and the Liberal Project is an ambitious and timely book that takes direct aim at the enduring myth of Canada as a “peaceable kingdom.” This myth, cultivated for more than a century in both popular and scholarly discourse, has long rested on a self-congratulatory comparison with the United States. Canadians have taken comfort in imagining their nation as more rational, orderly, and compassionate than their southern neighbor – a comparison that stretches back to the choices that Indigenous peoples were forced to make between Britain, France, and, later, the revolutionary American republic. From the late eighteenth century through Confederation, Indigenous nations confronted settler projects that purported to be
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallLand and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion by Éléna Choquette (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USLand and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion by Éléna Choquette (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®88012026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election by Patrice Dutil (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988272
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This is the first monographic study of Canada’s first federal election and, as such, a valuable addition to the historical literature on Canadian politics. The 1867 election was not a referendum on British North American union – a fait accompli when the election was held – but a contest between the promoters of the Canada project and those who had opposed “confederation” as to which of them would govern the new entity.Patrice Dutil offers discrete analyses of the election as it played out in the four geopolitical components of the new “dominion of Canada”: Canada West (Ontario), Canada East (Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The meat of the work is in these four chapters, while the overlong (fifty-page)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallBallots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election by Patrice Dutil (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USBallots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election by Patrice Dutil (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®70942026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Bibliothèques et archives dans les communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire : Enjeux et devenirs by Alain Roy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988273
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Ce livre poursuit la discussion débutée en mai 2021 lors de la conférence nationale portant sur les archives et les bibliothèques dans les communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire (CLOSM). Ses autrices et auteurs cherchent à comprendre le rôle des bibliothèques et des archives pour soutenir la vitalité des CLOSM. Les contributeurs de ce recueil ont été mis au défi d’explorer trois axes transversaux : l’appui du patrimoine documentaire à la vitalité mémorielle, les politiques qui soutiendraient l’accès à ce patrimoine, et l’état actuel et le développement des collections. L’ouvrage est réparti en deux sections, l’une portant sur les bibliothèques et l’autre, sur les archives. Cette structure et ces
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallBibliothèques et archives dans les communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire : Enjeux et devenirs by Alain Roy (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USBibliothèques et archives dans les communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire : Enjeux et devenirs by Alain Roy (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®80892026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Trade by Ryan Manucha (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988274
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Sir John A. Macdonald had to accept federal union as the price of political and economic union. But his vision of national unity raises important questions. Can institutional and legal arrangements produce unity out of diversity? Can national feeling emanate from hard law? No, according to some scholars. Public policy cannot alter the fundamentally federal character of a polity. But this view has its detractors, including Ryan Manucha. To this end, he looks at Canada’s economic union, a topic that has received little scholarly attention. On the one hand, it can be dry, technical, and soulless. On the other hand, it goes directly to the character and health of Canadian federalism and national unity. For Manucha
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallBooze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Trade by Ryan Manucha (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USBooze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Trade by Ryan Manucha (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®145682026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras 1918 Campaign by William F. Stewart (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988275
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In the first quarter of our current century, probably every Canadian high school student knows something about the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which was a component of the First Battle of Arras in 1917. It would be equally safe to wager that very few Canadians have any familiarity with the Second Battle of Arras (26 August – 3 September 1918). This wrinkle in popular memory is ironic because, arguably, the Second Battle of Arras had a much more immediate and significant strategic impact on the course of the war than its 1917 predecessor.There is little doubt that disparities in Canadian popular memory of First World War battles and campaigns have much to do with the fact that Canada’s national memorial on the Western
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallThe Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras 1918 Campaign by William F. Stewart (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps and the Arras 1918 Campaign by William F. Stewart (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®71582026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood by Richard White (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988276
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Richard White kicks off The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood with a simple premise: this neighbourhood works. White argues that the Beaches, a neighbourhood of about twenty-one thousand people on the shore of Lake Ontario – about seven kilometres from Toronto’s downtown core – has emerged with a distinct human-scale built character, has a walkable commercial high street, and has streets filled with comfortable one- and two-storey houses. The Beaches has not suffered from blight, and while it has transformed into a more affluent neighbourhood over the last forty years, it has not been overwhelmed by development.So, what makes the Beaches work? White’s key argument is that the Beaches owes its character
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallThe Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood by Richard White (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood by Richard White (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®73442026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14With a Unity of Purpose: How the First World War Changed Newfoundland by Michael R. Westcott (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988277
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Michael Westcott’s engrossing central premise is that the First World War “caused the reordering of liberal governance” (213) in Newfoundland, then an independent British dominion, which entered the conflict with Britian’s declaration of war on 8 August 1914. Newfoundland would raise and fund its own regiment not through a military department but, rather, through the volunteer Newfoundland Patriotic Association: an unusual setup that Westcott deftly contextualizes. This had repercussions to how the regiment was manned and funded, which Westcott considers along with several broader notable social, political, and economic aspects. As he notes, “to appreciate the power of war to transform societies, one must
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallWith a Unity of Purpose: How the First World War Changed Newfoundland by Michael R. Westcott (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USWith a Unity of Purpose: How the First World War Changed Newfoundland by Michael R. Westcott (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®77882026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Transforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada by Shannon Stunden Bower (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988278
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In Transforming the Prairies, Shannon Stunden Bower explores the history of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (pfra), a Canadian federal government agency run by the Department of Agriculture, which operated between 1935 and 2009 with ambitions that far exceeded what it ever accomplished. According to Stunden Bower, throughout these years, there existed a consistent mismatch between the pfra’s focus on “improving the stability and profitability of prairie agriculture to secure an acceptable quality of life for those the agency served” (34) and its leaders’ claims that it worked to rehabilitate or fix the perceived problems of earlier generations of prairie settlement and agricultural activity. Instead
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallTransforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada by Shannon Stunden Bower (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USTransforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada by Shannon Stunden Bower (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®83342026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King ed. by Patrice Dutil (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988279
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In 2024, Canadians observed, or, more probably, ignored, the sesquicentenary of the birth of William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), prime minister for nearly twenty-two years. But this book is not in memory of King. Instead, it is an informal festschrift in honour of J.L. Granatstein, dean of King’s historians, to whom it is dedicated and who contributes the concluding historiographical essay. The model is Patrice Dutil’s The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent: Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada (ubc Press, 2021), a series of essays on King’s bespoke successor as prime minister. The present work comprises nineteen state-of-the-art essays, including two by the editor, who also contributes a substantive
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallThe Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King ed. by Patrice Dutil (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King ed. by Patrice Dutil (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®71312026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar: Creating the Youth Market in Mid-Century Canada by Katharine Rollwagen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988280
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In 1939, Jack Brockie, the influential director of merchandise display and public relations at the Eaton’s Department Store in Toronto, eavesdropped on a debate between a mother and her teenaged daughter. Standing in the children’s section, the mother urged a coat on her daughter, who wanted something more grown up. Brockie had discovered the teenager, somewhere between child and adult. As a category, the teenager grew from many sources – school regulations to psychology – but consumer practice was one of its defining features. Brockie helped nudge the iconic department store into several projects to define and capture the teenage market.These efforts are the subject of Katharine Rollwagen’s excellent book. She
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallThe Scramble for the Teenage Dollar: Creating the Youth Market in Mid-Century Canada by Katharine Rollwagen (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Scramble for the Teenage Dollar: Creating the Youth Market in Mid-Century Canada by Katharine Rollwagen (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®65062026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Strike, 1958 by Elizabeth Quinlan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988281
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The storied union Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ (mmsw) has captivated popular and academic audiences for decades. From director Herbert J. Biberman’s 1954 labour cinema classic Salt of the Earth (1954) to historian Ron Verzuh’s Smelter Wars (University of Toronto Press, 2022), the mmsw’s myriad confrontations with mining companies and hostile rival unions are well documented. Elizabeth Quinlan’s Standing Up to Big Nickel marks a riveting and thoughtful entry in this history, centring on the union’s 1958 strike against the International Nickel Company (Inco) in Sudbury, Ontario.The 1958 strike was a remarkable moment in Canadian labour history. To historians familiar with the period, the strike stands out as a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallStanding Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Strike, 1958 by Elizabeth Quinlan (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USStanding Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Strike, 1958 by Elizabeth Quinlan (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®83762026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Fatal Confession A Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton Case by Carolyn Strange (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988282
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At first glance, you might think that this is a book for fans of true crime stories. It does recount what happened one night in 1956 in Toronto to Linda Lampkin, a thirteen-year-old girl, and to Robert Fitton, a twenty-one-year-old postman and family man who had sex with her and then killed her, but it is much more than a true crime story. The book has much to offer students of twentieth-century Canadian social and political history, providing numerous insights into Canadian society and the politics of sex crimes and capital punishment. The book examines the law as it relates to the admissibility of a confession, the treatment that the victim and accused received in the courts and how the press portrayed a lively
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Amid a challenging period in the Canadian-American relationship, Matthew Paul Trudgen offers a history of how the bilateral relationship can work even when there is not complete agreement between the two countries’ political, diplomatic, and military leaders. Trudgen’s book focuses primarily on the political and diplomatic aspects of the bilateral relationship during the early Cold War period that resulted in the development of the continental air defence system that peaked in 1957 with the creation of the North American Air Defence Command (norad). Trudgen convincingly argues that Canada and the United States cooperated to develop the system in a way that met the needs of both countries. He does this by detailing
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Whatever purpose Jim Coutts thought his diaries would serve, on his death in 2013 he left them open for all to see in the archives of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Ron Graham has done a great service to readers in this edited volume. It covers the important events in the years from 1973 to 1981 that changed our country in significant ways. Through the sometimes trivial details of the days (and nights) that Coutts records, we view the Quebec crisis, patriation, the National Energy Program, electoral defeat, and the restoration to government. His work was that of the ultimate insider, Pierre Trudeau’s principal secretary. It is fascinating.For those of us who served in the wider reaches of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/248/image/coversmallThe Coutts Diaries: Power, Politics, and Pierre Trudeau 1973–1981 ed. by Ron Graham (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USThe Coutts Diaries: Power, Politics, and Pierre Trudeau 1973–1981 ed. by Ron Graham (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®75332026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14