Project MUSE®: British Journal of Canadian Studies - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in British Journal of Canadian Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 27 (2014) through current issueLatest Articles: British Journal of Canadian StudiesTWOProject MUSE®British Journal of Canadian Studies1757-80780269-9222Latest articles in British Journal of Canadian Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North by Tina Adcock (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987032
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Tina Adcock’s A Cold Colonialism offers a compelling re-evaluation of northern exploration by reframing it as a colonial practice embedded in broader networks of knowledge production, identity formation, and imperial ambition. Rather than treating exploration as an exceptional or heroic pursuit, Adcock situates it in the context of twentieth-century colonial modernity and examines how southern Canadians constructed authority over the Arctic and Subarctic through proximity, narrative, and institutional credibility. Her analysis resists celebratory accounts of adventure and instead foregrounds the entanglement of exploration with governance, resource extraction, and the epistemic marginalisation of Indigenous
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallA Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North by Tina Adcock (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USA Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North by Tina Adcock (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®58822026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Beyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789–1889 by Eleanor Bird (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987033
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Part of Manchester University Press’s Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century series, Eleanor Bird’s compact but impactful study persuasively illustrates how attention to print culture enriches our understanding of Canada’s history of enslavement. Comprising four chapters – ‘The Representation of Slavery in Quebec’s Newspapers, 1789–93’, ‘Canada in The Antebellum Slave Narrative, 1849–57’, ‘Thomas Jones in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: A Slave Narrative in Context, 1851–53’, and ‘Broken Shackles: A Narrative of Slavery in the United States and Canada’s First Major Book Distributor, 1889’ – this book argues compellingly for the significance of early Canadian publishing’s reprint culture, particularly for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallBeyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789–1889 by Eleanor Bird (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USBeyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789–1889 by Eleanor Bird (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®53692026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies ed. by Peter L. Biro (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987034
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This collection focuses on s. 33 of the 1982 Constitution Act, otherwise known as the ‘Notwithstanding Clause’ of the Canadian Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. This clause allows Canadian legislatures to pass legislation which can then stand for five years ‘notwithstanding’ that it conflicts with the rights contained in s. 2, and or ss. 7–15 of the Charter. Peter Biro provides both an introduction to the collection as a whole and very useful introductions to each of the five parts. There is also a very detailed index to the nineteen chapters.Part One provides insight for the different perspectives on the genesis of the clause. Part Two addresses ‘Fundamentals’, including the operation of the clause. Part
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies ed. by Peter L. Biro (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies ed. by Peter L. Biro (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50172026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02BACS at fifty
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987035
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The BACS conference that took place in Edinburgh in April 2025 – appropriately entitled ‘Canada: Past, Present, Future’ – was a truly memorable event. Most obviously, it was the largest conference in recent BACS history, rivalled only by the 2017 conference held at Canada House in London to mark the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Canadian Confederation. The Edinburgh conference was attended by some 150 Canadianists from almost twenty different countries situated across the globe. The packed programme consisted of three plenary lectures and a plenary round table on the future direction of Canadian studies, plus thirty-five panels, totalling some 120 speakers in all. The papers presented included key
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallBACS at fifty2026-04-02text/htmlen-USBACS at fifty2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®123312026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02‘Something still to find’: why Canadian studies are still relevant
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987036
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Why are we interested in studying Canada? It is often personal. It may be because of our own studies in Canada, because of a partnership with a Canadian, or because we are originally from Canada. In all cases we probably have an emotional attachment to and a passionate interest in the country. In my own case, all reasons are present. On my maternal side my aunt migrated to Canada in 1945. Half of my family ended up in Canada. I studied at the University of Edinburgh and from 1976 to 1978 was involved in the Centre of Canadian Studies. From 1978 to 1984 I was a Canadian Commonwealth scholar at the Universities of Toronto and Guelph. Last, but not least, I married a Canadian. It was during my postgraduate studies
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmall‘Something still to find’: why Canadian studies are still relevant2026-04-02text/htmlen-US‘Something still to find’: why Canadian studies are still relevant2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®318102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02It is always about freedom: the rhetoric of Canadian prime ministers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987037
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The notion of freedom, one of the underlying concepts of western culture and political systems, has recently become a subject of considerable debate around the world. For a long time, though, politicians of all stripes in Canada celebrated the nation’s long tradition of freedom from the anti-slavery movement of the late eighteenth century to the constitutional entrenchment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. It was the embrace of freedom that made possible, for instance, the expansion of greater citizen participation and of voting rights from male property owners to non-property owners, to formerly enslaved people, to women, and to those excluded by prejudice and racism. Freedom also made way for the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallIt is always about freedom: the rhetoric of Canadian prime ministers2026-04-02text/htmlen-USIt is always about freedom: the rhetoric of Canadian prime ministers2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®831592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02From leader to laggard: the Canadian climate change story
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987038
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Emissions in Canada are higher today than when this country and the world first committed to fighting climate change, more than 30 years ago. Targets and plans have come and gone, and Canada has yet to deliver on any.In Canada, public concern for and the salience of environmental issues surged dramatically during the mid- to late 1980s (Harrison 1996). In 1990 Gallup reported that 77 per cent of Canadians felt that pollution was a very serious problem. This was an all-time high. No issue was more salient than the environment to Canadians whom Gallup polled in 1989. It nudged unemployment and inflation out for top spot, an importance the pollsters at Decima Research and Environics confirmed independently in their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallFrom leader to laggard: the Canadian climate change story2026-04-02text/htmlen-USFrom leader to laggard: the Canadian climate change story2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®1281532026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Canada, nice or not?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987039
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The argument advanced in this article is that categorising Canada as a ‘middle power’ (Axworthy 1997a; Cooper 1995; Cooper et al. 1993; Keating 2002; Pratt 2014) or, alternatively, as a ‘sub-superpower’ or ‘junior imperialist’ (Gordon 2010), ‘secondary imperialist’ (Gordon and Webber 2019; Shipley 2013), or ‘middle-level imperialist’ (Gordon and We bber 2014) is analytically inaccurate. Canada, in fact, fits the category of a sub-imperialist country. This concept – first formulated in the 1960s by the Brazilian Marxist scholar Ruy Mauro Marini (1965; 2013; Marini et al. 2022) to explain Brazil’s intermediary position within the international capitalist hierarchy – aptly describes Canadian foreign policy towards
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallCanada, nice or not?2026-04-02text/htmlen-USCanada, nice or not?2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®1151362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Promoting involved fatherhood? Canadian institutions and the journey towards a more gender-equal Canada
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987040
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One of the major social evolutions of the second half of the twentieth century, as noted by numerous sociologists and scholars in gender and women’s studies, is what has been called the first phase of the transformation of gender roles (Brannen et al. 2023; Mauerer 2023), which has mainly consisted in gradually dissolving the gendered division of labour that prevailed in the public sphere. This ‘first gender revolution’ (Brannen et al. 2023: 227) has mostly promoted women’s access to employment and equal wages. One of the most notable changes in the labour market over the last century has been the significant increase in women’s labour force participation in OECD countries (Canaan et al. 2022). Public policies have
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallPromoting involved fatherhood? Canadian institutions and the journey towards a more gender-equal Canada2026-04-02text/htmlen-USPromoting involved fatherhood? Canadian institutions and the journey towards a more gender-equal Canada2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®840362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Art as a public service in the Canadian aporetic condition: the NFB, stylisation of experience, and national identity
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987041
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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) operates as a public studio with a civic mandate: to tell Canadian stories and build shared cultural understanding through documentary craft and digital experimentation. Its institutional practice emphasises public service, engagement with history and memory, and layered, open narratives that invite participation. Throughout its history, NFB films and interactive works have amplified the voices of marginalised individuals and addressed pressing social issues. This article argues that, in the contemporary period, the NFB models ‘art as a public service’ that works within Canada’s aporetic condition – durable, unresolved tensions in national identity. These tensions – among
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallArt as a public service in the Canadian aporetic condition: the NFB, stylisation of experience, and national identity2026-04-02text/htmlen-USArt as a public service in the Canadian aporetic condition: the NFB, stylisation of experience, and national identity2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®942532026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Notes on contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987042
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JOHN W. BESSAI is an independent Canadian scholar and documentary producer–director whose interdisciplinary work links Canadian studies, political theory, media history, and cultural policy. He holds a PhD in Canadian studies from Trent University (2024), where he introduced the concept of the Canadian aporetic condition to analyse enduring tensions in governance, culture, and memory. His research focuses on art as a public service, the National Film Board of Canada, and interactive documentary, informed by a career writing and directing biographies for television. His projects examine stylisation and public code in digital storytelling and design (www.johnbessai.com).RAYMOND B. BLAKE is Professor of History at the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallNotes on contributors2026-04-02text/htmlen-USNotes on contributors2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®59862026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Sovereignty and Contestation: Practices of Pluralism in Canada and the European Union by Keith Cherry (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987043
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The aim of this book is to explain sovereigntising processes and counterprocesses, from an interdisciplinary (political, legal, economic) perspective. Cherry conceives of sovereignty not as a legal abstraction, but as a situated political practice, a type of social relation, a form of authority which has legal, political, economic, and cultural aspects. The premise of his theory of pluralism is that power was never as unitary, coherent, and ordered as sovereignty suggests. Rather, it has always been ‘multilateral, contested, negotiated, assented to, resisted, made partial, and subjected to spaces and categories of exception. Therefore the power of “the sovereign” always works in relation to the subject’ (p.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallSovereignty and Contestation: Practices of Pluralism in Canada and the European Union by Keith Cherry (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USSovereignty and Contestation: Practices of Pluralism in Canada and the European Union by Keith Cherry (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50762026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Emma LaRocque Reader: On Being Human ed. by Elaine Coburn (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987044
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‘At some point in my young life I chose to survive, and for me, survival has meant a lifelong vocation of researching and educating on Native/white relations and their social and political ramifications’ (p. 255). This is the unmistakable voice of Emma LaRocque, a selection of whose writings are for the first time gathered together in this handsomely produced Reader. Now seventy-five, LaRocque has long deserved wider recognition for her significant contributions to Native (now Indigenous) studies over fifty years. As a professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba, where she has been teaching and writing since the mid-1970s, she belongs to that pioneering generation who have worked since the late
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Emma LaRocque Reader: On Being Human ed. by Elaine Coburn (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Emma LaRocque Reader: On Being Human ed. by Elaine Coburn (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®53802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Alice Munro and the Art of Time by Laura K. Davis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987045
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Davis’s Alice Munro and the Art of Time makes a significant contribution to Munro scholarship by placing the question of temporality at the centre of its analysis. While many critics have focused on place, region, and setting in Munro’s fiction, Davis argues that time is an equally crucial but understudied dimension of her art.The book begins by situating Munro within broader debates about time in Canadian literature. Drawing on works such as Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty’s Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory and Paul Huebener’s Timing Canada, Davis emphasises how questions of temporality are embedded in cultural memory and national identity. This context allows her to position Munro’s fiction as a sustained
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallAlice Munro and the Art of Time by Laura K. Davis (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USAlice Munro and the Art of Time by Laura K. Davis (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®51692026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852 by Ross Fair (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987046
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‘He that causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before’, opined Dr James F.W. Johnston, ‘is a benefactor of his country’ (p. 1). Ross Fair, currently a lecturer in the Department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University, uses this idea to help situate Upper Canada within an improving ideology that fuelled ideas about progress throughout the Atlantic world. Fair traces agricultural societies and the spirit of improvement from the Constitutional Act of 1791 that created Upper Canada to the establishment of a Bureau of Agriculture in 1852. Fair not only examines the many and varied agricultural societies that sprang up through Upper Canada but also considers how agricultural improvers became
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallImproving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852 by Ross Fair (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USImproving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852 by Ross Fair (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®51852026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities: Where the Law Went Wrong and How We Can Fix It ed. by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert, and Nathalie Des Rosiers (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987047
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In an important 2010 paper, William Davies revealed that Chicago school ‘thinking’ achieved hegemony by sternly informing competition lawyers that we are all mere consumers who always seek out the cheapest deal whatever the long-term cost. Despite recent Nobel Prize successes by behaviouralists, the term ‘deal’ still strikes a notable chord. Urbanists will therefore be intrigued to read this text focusing on cities and proving that constitutional lawyers are made of sterner stuff. A necessary caveat is that this multi-author collection was conceived in 2020 – just before COVID and fully five years before the No Kings protest heralded an astonishing centralisation of power in the USA. That said, this is in many ways
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities: Where the Law Went Wrong and How We Can Fix It ed. by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert, and Nathalie Des Rosiers (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities: Where the Law Went Wrong and How We Can Fix It ed. by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert, and Nathalie Des Rosiers (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®48472026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02By Strength We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories by Crystal Gail Fraser (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987048
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In this book, Indigenous scholar Crystal Gail Fraser focuses on the history of residential schooling in the Inuvik/Beaufort- Delta region, historically known as the Mackenzie District or the Western Arctic. Her book is informed by her own personal recollections of her childhood in Inuvik.From 1945 the federal and territorial governments made a concerted attempt to integrate Indigenous northerners into broader anglophone Canadian society. New day schools and residential schools, school policies, and curricula formed part of this agenda. Northern Canada was sparsely populated, and its Indigenous people mostly lived in widely dispersed small communities. The provision of education was concentrated in the new
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallBy Strength We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories by Crystal Gail Fraser (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USBy Strength We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories by Crystal Gail Fraser (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50732026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Canadian Parties in Transition ed. by Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanquey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987049
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In this edition of one of the most useful texts in Canadian political science, twelve of the chapters are new and eight are substantially revised. The editors argue that the Canadian party system has been in transition since the first edition in 1989, but that the speed of change has accelerated. In the first chapter Royce Koop argues that there have been four party systems since 1867 and that a fifth is emerging, where – as in the United Kingdom – ‘clear centre-right and centre-left alternatives are presented to voters’ (p. 15). The 2025 Canadian election would seem to indicate that this may be true in Canada, even as, ironically, the United Kingdom moves to a more fragmented party system. David K. Stewart
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallCanadian Parties in Transition ed. by Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanquey (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USCanadian Parties in Transition ed. by Alain-G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanquey (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50252026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary by Dalie Giroux (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987050
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The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary is an amalgam of political philosophy and personal essay, originally published in French in 2020 and translated into English by Jennifer Henderson in 2023. The book is structured into an introduction, two main sections – ‘Politics’ and ‘Narratives’ – containing thre e long-form essays in each, and a concluding section titled ‘Conclusion in Erratic Blocs’.Giroux’s central concern is the Québécois colonial imaginary, particularly the ‘maîtres chez nous’ slogan that has shaped Quebec’s post-Quiet Revolution identity. She interrogates how this slogan of mastery has been used to justify settler colonialism and marginalise Indigenous and racialised
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Eye of the Master: Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary by Dalie Giroux (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Eye of the Master: Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary by Dalie Giroux (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®55162026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Cultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century by Leila Inksetter (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987051
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This book examines the cultural change experienced by the Algonquin living in north-eastern Ontario and north-western Quebec from 1800 to 1906. Leila Inksetter notes that anthropology ‘has often viewe d cultural change experienced by Indigenous people through the lens of acculturation, framing such changes as destructive in nature and amounting to cultural loss’. She rejects this approach, arguing that the Algonquin were able to make choices and ‘accepted factors of change dynamically’ (p. 5). Despite there being virtually no written records, she argues that it is possible for an ethnohistorian to reconstitute their story using anthropological, archaeological, and available documentary evidence and she does a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallCultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century by Leila Inksetter (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USCultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century by Leila Inksetter (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50712026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada by Stéphan Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987052
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The major problem with this book is that it takes such a broad definition of what the authors call the ‘far-right universe’ in Canada (p. 168). Does it really make sense to include international terrorist organisations, domestic terrorist organisations like the FLQ (which is not usually seen as ‘right-wing’), and what the authors call ‘lone wolves’ who commit acts of violence which have no ideological motivation within the same ‘universe’ as populist organisations promoting a far-right agenda who do not advocate violence? The second problem is that the conclusions about what motivates those defined as members of the far right is based on a rather narrow range of sources. The authors began their fieldwork in 2014
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada by Stéphan Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada by Stéphan Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®52482026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse by Alan MacEachern (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987053
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In about 1901 L.M. Montgomery, recently returned to her family home in Cavendish, PEI, after some years away studying and teaching, became friends with her third cousin, Myrtle Macneill. Myrtle had come to live with her great-aunt and great-uncle in their farmhouse, a place that Montgomery had loved since childhood. She named the beautiful path through its woodlands ‘Lover’s Lane’. Myrtle married Ernest Webb and, in 1909, the couple took ownership of the farm. This was just a year after the publication of Anne of Green Gables, and the property was soon attracting Anne fans eager to see the ‘Lover’s Lane’ that features in the novel. Their main place of pilgrimage, however, was Montgomery’s childhood home, just down
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallBecoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse by Alan MacEachern (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USBecoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse by Alan MacEachern (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50632026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History by Daniel Macfarlane (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987054
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Daniel Macfarlane’s The Lives of Lake Ontario is a sweeping environmental history of a large and prominent body of freshwater whose part in shaping the natural and human history of North America’s Great Lakes basin is on full display. Macfarlane sees the living history of Lake Ontario as emblematic of the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration – two concepts used by environmental historians to describe and interpret the historical and contemporary impacts of human activity on the natural world. The former refers to any period in recorded history with evidence of climate change or environmental degradation, and the latter refers specifically to the decades since the mid-twentieth century when the impacts of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History by Daniel Macfarlane (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History by Daniel Macfarlane (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®53332026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism ed. by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987055
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Right from the very start of this research, the authors make it perfectly clear that the history of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, throughout the twentieth century will be mainly analysed from the perspective of industrialisation versus deindustrialisation and its aftermath. The book has eleven chapters which deal with a multitude of topics – from the coal beginnings of the island and its affiliation with cricket, through the problematic relationships with the minorities, going through Mi’kmaw women, to the postwar situation, Gaelic traditions, and tourist culture. The text is a comprehensive and evocative journey across space and time for Cape Bretoners and Canadians as well. Within this multifaceted thematic scope
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallCape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism ed. by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USCape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism ed. by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50212026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Good Medicine Stories: Literary and Critical Explorations of Settler-Colonial Trauma, the Canadian TRC, and Indigenous Resurgence by Francesca Mussi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987056
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Mussi’s Good Medicine Stories provides a rigorous examination of the way in which Indigenous literature engages with Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Before her work, David Gaertner’s The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (2020) has already demonstrated how Indigenous and non-Indigenous literature interrogates the TRC’s notion of reconciliation. What sets Mussi’s work apart, however, is its focus on Indigenous texts produced during and after the TRC’s mandate, and an intersectional critical framework that combines the examination of the TRC with various settler colonial legacies, including the residential-school system, the Sixties Scoop
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallGood Medicine Stories: Literary and Critical Explorations of Settler-Colonial Trauma, the Canadian TRC, and Indigenous Resurgence by Francesca Mussi (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USGood Medicine Stories: Literary and Critical Explorations of Settler-Colonial Trauma, the Canadian TRC, and Indigenous Resurgence by Francesca Mussi (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®56502026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02The Canadian Environment in Political Context by Andrea Olive and Heather Millar (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987057
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The Environmental Performance Index ranked Canada twenty-eighth out of 180 countries in 2024 in terms of mitigating climate change and environmental health, spotlighting that Canada still has a way to go if it is to lead its Group of Eleven developed-country peers. The first edition was published in 2016, the second in 2019; in this third edition, lead author Olive is joined by Millar, an expert in risk governance, energy politics, and climate policy. This book has changed significantly in terms of chapter order, with updated content, a streamlined focus on environmental policy, and a new concluding chapter. This is welcome given the major shifts geopolitics and international environmental law, such as the 2021
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThe Canadian Environment in Political Context by Andrea Olive and Heather Millar (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThe Canadian Environment in Political Context by Andrea Olive and Heather Millar (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®50892026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Silent Partners: The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military–Industrial Complex ed. by Alex Souchen and Matthew S. Wiseman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987058
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This book contains a number of interesting articles about the history of Canada’s defence and munitions industries. In the first chapter, Alex Souchen shows how Canada became a major supplier of munitions during the Second World War. Much of this story is already well known but Souchen adds some fascinating new details, particularly about the negative environmental impact of this vast expansion. Munitions factories reshaped in a number ways – particularly because of their demand for vast amounts of water – the ecological history of many regions of Canada. As Brandon Davis points out in chapter 2, one of the continuing needs of the military and defence industries during and after the war was vast amounts of land;
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallSilent Partners: The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military–Industrial Complex ed. by Alex Souchen and Matthew S. Wiseman (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USSilent Partners: The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military–Industrial Complex ed. by Alex Souchen and Matthew S. Wiseman (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®51042026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Thank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro’s Works III ed. by J.R. (Tim) Struthers (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987059
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This volume, the third instalment in a series of critical reflections on Alice Munro’s oeuvre, offers a compelling and richly textured tribute to one of Canada’s most esteemed literary figures. Thank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro’s Works III extends the editorial vision inaugurated in Alice Munro Country and Alice Munro Everlasting. The collection gathers twenty-five contributions from scholars, editors, and fellow writers, whose diverse perspectives coalesce into an expansive portrait of Munro’s literary legacy, particularly poignant following her death in 2024.Struthers’s introductory essay, ‘Celebrating Alice Munro’, is both critical and commemorative, offering personal reflections interwoven with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallThank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro’s Works III ed. by J.R. (Tim) Struthers (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USThank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro’s Works III ed. by J.R. (Tim) Struthers (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®56382026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Stalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada ed. by Balász Venkovits (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987060
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The nine chapters of this volume provide an excellent starting point for scholars interested in Central and Eastern European migration to Canada, a hitherto largely neglected subject. Utilising a transnational and ‘inter-American approach’ (p. 1), the contributions examine the experiences of migrants from eight countries and their roles in building a multi-ethnic Canada from the late nineteenth century through the Cold War. The authors hail from several countries and are grounded in a variety of disciplines, resulting in a heterogeny of perspectives and lenses.The book’s particularly compelling chapters most closely address the tension reflected in the title: at what times and under what circumstances were Central
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallStalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada ed. by Balász Venkovits (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USStalwart Peasants, Undesirables, Refugees: Central and Eastern European Immigration to Canada ed. by Balász Venkovits (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®52002026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes by Harvey Amani Whitfield (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987061
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Harvey Amani Whitfield is Centennial Carnegie Chair in the History of Slavery in Canada at the University of King’s College and a prolific scholar of Black people in Canadian history. The Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes builds on Whitfield’s expertise and offers 1,465 ‘brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people in the Maritimes, making it the first scholarly attempt to collect and make concrete individual lives of enslaved Black people who lived in this region’ (p. xxii). In presenting this collection of entries about enslaved Black people in the Maritimes, Whitfield ‘seeks to unearth the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/637/image/coversmallBiographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes by Harvey Amani Whitfield (review)2026-04-02text/htmlen-USBiographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes by Harvey Amani Whitfield (review)2026-04-022026TWOProject MUSE®49982026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-02