Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from June 1998

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from June 1998

John O'Connor: Communal politician.
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME John O'Connor was a classic example of a nineteenth century communal politician, representing as he did the interests of the Catholic Irish of Ontario. During his brief political career in John A. Macdonald's cabinet in the...

Ethnic persistence among Dutch-Canadian Catholics and Calvinists.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME The purpose of this paper is to report research findings from a study examining intra-ethnic differences in ethnic persistence or identity retention among first- and second-generation Dutch-Canadian Catholics and...

Do visible minority students of Chinese and South Asian ancestry want teaching as a career?: Perceptions of some secondary school students in Vancouver, B.C.
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME While education, training and employment are prominent concerns in Canada, scant attention has been paid to the educational attainments, career aspirations and employment of minority Canadian secondary school students. The...

"Cci voli sorti macari a frijiri l'ova" (1) The notion of fate in Sicilian popular belief.
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME The paper examines the Sicilian and Sicilian immigrant notion of fate (lu destinu), an important cultural construction and an idiom of distress resorted to commonly in the pre-World War II period (1880-1940). Four basic...

"Experiences with the white man" Black student narratives.
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper reports on Black student perspectives on the ways in which racialization is experienced in Canadian society. It is based on ethnographic research undertaken with Black students in two high schools in Alberta. It...

Anglo-conformity in Winnipeg: An update.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper updates Goldstein's (1981) study of changes in the popularity of the ideology of anglo-conformity in the Winnipeg metropolitan area during the period 1881 to 1979. Using the ethnic origins of individuals for whom...

Patterns of ethnic identification and the 'Canadian' response.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME In this study, we use the 1993 National Census Test to examine patterns of ethnic identification in Canada particularly with respect to those reporting Canadian as an ethnic origin. We find that people reporting Canadian as...

Ethnic outcasts: The dilemma of not belonging for Canadian Finland-Swedes.
June 22, 1998... ABSTRACT/RESUME Finland-Swedes speak a distinct dialect of Swedish which is encountered only in Finland. Many of these Swedish-speaking natives of Finland emigrated to Canada during the 1920s and tried to establish ties with their Swedish...

Conference report cross-stitching cultural borders: Comparing Ukrainian experience in Canada and the U.S.
June 22, 1998... ********** The independence of Ukraine in 1991 instigated a variety of responses, including the need for diaspora communities to re-examine their roles, concerns and priorities in view of these new developments abroad. This conference,...

The unimaginable flowers.(Short Story)
June 22, 1998... ********** It was the season for rain and already the early morning was hot and humid which made Elizabeth extremely irritable. She purposely found fault with her maid Clarissa when the breakfast tray was carried in and for little reason....

Eileen Aroon.(Poem)
June 22, 1998... ********** "Where does this agreement lead us Eileen Aroon? Perhaps the slippery slope to freedom who can be sure? The forked tongue has spoken for 800 years and more; dare we trust it this time, Eileen Aroon?" ...

Ode to Orangemen.(Poem)
June 22, 1998... ********** WE'LL SIGN THE AGREEMENT THEY SAID LIKE WE'VE SIGNED BEFORE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS WE'VE AGREED THAT WAR AGAINST US IS NOT RIGHT! OUR STATE IS SACRED AND JUST RED WHITE AND BLUE IS A MUST TO...

De l'immigration a l'assimilation: Enquete sur les populations d'origine etrangere en France.
June 22, 1998... De l'immigration a l'assimilation. Enquete sur les populations d'origine etrangere en France. Michele Tribalat, avec la participation de Patrick Simon et Benoit Riandey. Paris, La Decouverte, coll. Recherches, 1996. 302 pp. En 1992-1993,...

Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference, Michael Asch, ed. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference, Michael Asch, ed. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1997. xv + 284 pps. $65.00 hc, $24.95 pb. The Supreme Court of Canada decision...

Severing the Ties that Bind. Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Severing the Ties that Bind. Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies. Katherine Pettipas. Winnipeg: The University of Manitoba Press, 1994. xxiv + 304, b/wh photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 hc;...

The Insanity of Alcohol: Social Problems in Canadian First Nation Communities. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... The Insanity of Alcohol: Social Problems in Canadian First Nation Communities. Paul Whitehead and Michael Hayes. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press. 1998. $19.95, $14.95 US. This monograph deals with the continuing major problem of alcohol...

Voices From Hudson Bay: Cree Stories From York Factory. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Voices From Hudson Bay: Cree Stories From York Factory. Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts, Editors and Compilers. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. 158 pp. A quarter century ago, before going to teach in Moose Factory, I...

The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War. Peter D. MacLeod. Canadian War Museum Historical Publication No. 29. Toronto: Dundurn Press/Canadian War Museum, 1996. 247 pp. $29.95 hc. D. Peter MacLeod is a graduate of the University of...

Women of First Nations: Power Wisdom, and Strength. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Women of First Nations: Power Wisdom, and Strength. Papers Presented at the National Symposium on Aboriginal Women of Canada, 1989. Christine Miller and Patricia Chuchryk, eds., with Marie Smallface Marule, Brenda Manyfingers, and Cheryl...

The Road To Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal. (Book Reviews / Recensions).
June 22, 1998... The Road To Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal. Dorothy W. Williams. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1997. 235 pp. The Road to Now is an eclectic study of the role of Blacks in 350 years of Montreal history. The book is essentially organised...

Towards Freedom: The African Canadian Experience.
June 22, 1998... Towards Freedom: The African Canadian Experience. Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996. 288 pp. Educators Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze have produced an historical textbook of Blacks in Canada geared to high school...

Black Like Who? ( Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Black Like Who? Rinaldo Walcott. Toronto: Insomnia Press, 1997. 190 pp. $19.99 pb. Do "Black Canadian" culture and literature exist? If so, how are they to be categorised- as racial, ethnic, multicultural, or national? Is the designation,...

Western Icelandic Women. ( Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Writings by Western Icelandic Women. Kirsten Wolf, ed. & trans. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1996. 209 pp. $18.95. From the University of Manitoba Press comes a second collection of translated Western Icelandic writing edited by...

Emigration from Poland to Canada 1918-1939. ( Recensions).
June 22, 1998... For Bread and a Better Future. Emigration from Poland to Canada 1918-1939. Anna Reczynska. Published by Multicultural History Society of Ontario. Available from: University of Toronto Press, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M3H...

Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit. ( Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit. Bob Hesketh. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. x + 315 pp. $50.00 hc, $21.95 pb. Bob Hesketh has accomplished what few scholars of the Alberta Social Credit movement have attempted--he has...

Good-bye Marianne. (Recensions).
June 22, 1998... Good-bye Marianne. Irene N. Watts. McClelland and Stewart Young Readers. Toronto: Tundra Books, 1998.112 pp. $8.99 pb. The Children of China: An Artist's Journey. Song Nan Zhang. McClelland and Stewart Young Readers. Toronto: Tundra Books,...