Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from September 1999

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from September 1999

Canadian, eh? Ethnic origin shifts in the Canadian census.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT/RESUME In the 1986 census only 0.5 percent of the Canadian population gave "Canadian/Canadien" as their ethnic origin. This figure rose to 4 percent in the 1991 census, making Canadian the fastest growing ethnic origin group...

The rise and incomplete fall of a contemporary legend: Frozen englishmen in the Canadian prairies during the winter of 1906-07. (1).
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper emerged out of much larger study of the social effects of the brutal winter of 1906-7 in the region between the Canadian Shield and the Rockies. While most historians attempt to find the origin and impact of...

Looking back, looking forward: Canadian women artists with eastern european connections and postmodern remembering.(Illustration)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT/RESUME This inquiry considers the works of eight contemporary Canadian women artists of European origin whose explorations have focused mainly on eastern Europe, shaped by the Second World War and its aftermath to the present....

What is my child learning at elementary school? Culturally contested issues between teachers and Latin American families.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT/RESUME This study is part of an extensive research project on children of Latin American immigrants, their teachers and families. Through participant observation in one designated Canadian school, we captured the perspectives of...

Ethnocultural Groups, period of immigration and socioeconomic situation.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT/RESUME We explore three socioeconomic measures: unemployment rates, income levels and poverty levels among seventeen different immigrant ethnocultural groups over five periods of immigration. This study used data from the 1991...

What is Told in the Green Library: History, institutions, language.(portrayals of the ethnic Ukrainian community in Canada and the United States)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT/RESUME Janice Kulyk Keefer's novel, The Green Library, and Askold Melnyczuk's novel, What is Told, depict the ethnic Ukrainian community in Canada and the United States, respectively. These works display a number of similarities...

Thinking of home.(Poem)
September 22, 1999... I take my mother to the ocean, hoping it will remind her of her girlhood in Newfoundland, though we are two provinces away. But the harbour suggests Toronto's, all steel poles and cement docks. Even the ocean liners resemble...

Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic, and Social Challenges. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... Immigrant Canada: Demographic, Economic, and Social Challenges. Shiva S. Halli and Leo Driedger (Eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1999. 358 pp. $24.95 pb. Books based on academic papers selected from conference proceedings...

A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. Franca Iacovetta with Paula Draper and Robert Ventresca. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 514 pp. $24.95 pb. As a university undergraduate...

The Last Best West. Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian Plains. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... The Last Best West. Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian Plains. Yossi Katz and John C. Lehr. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1999. 243 pp. $25.00 pb. Yossi Katz and John C. Lehr are historical geographers....

L'education a la citoyennete. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... L'education a la citoyennete. F. Galichet. Paris, Anthropos, 1998. 202 pp. 125 FF. Dans cet ouvrage recent qui presente une analyse tres eclairante de l'evolution de la notion d'education a la citoyennete en France, Galichet (1998)...

A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics. Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul (Eds.). Waterloo, Ontario:Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. 274 pp. $29.95 pb. This book is the result of the work of a Canadian-Thailand research...

Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha. Jean-Guy A. Goulet. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. 334 pp. $29.95 pb. Goulet's study of Chateh, a Slavey community in northwestern Alberta, is...

History of the Doukhobors in V.D. Bonch-Bruevich's Archives (1886-1950s) & Doukhobor Incantations through the Centuries & Sergej Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: A Journey to Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... History of the Doukhobors in V.D. Bonch-Bruevich's Archives (1886-1950s). Inikova, Svetlana A.; Koozma J. Tarasoff (Ed.). Ottawa, Legas, 1999. 137 pp. illustr. photographs, sketches. Doukhobor Incantations Through the Centuries. Inikova,...

Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Gary Collison. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 294 pp. $27.95 US hc. This excellent biography of Shadrach Minkins is one of the most complete studies now available on a...

Language in Canada. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... Language in Canada. John Edwards (Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 504 Pp. $89.95 US hc, suggested Canadian price $135.00 hc. Since 1981, Cambridge University Press has published four volumes on language in various...

New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction. Marie Vautier. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. 339 pp. $55.00 hc. Marie Vautier presents a comparative study of six historiographic...

Night Train to Nykobing. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... Night Train to Nykobing. Kristjana Gunnars. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1998. 96 pp. $16.95. Kristjana Gunnars, born in Iceland, emigrated to Canada in 1969. In 1989 she won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award for...

Cinnamon Gardens. (Book Reviews/Recensions).
September 22, 1999... Cinnamon Gardens. Shyam Selvadurai. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998.400 pp. $29.99 hc. In this second novel, as in his 1994 award-winning debut work, Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai explores racial, ethnic and sexual tensions in early...

Ten pounds of carrots.(Poem)
September 22, 1999... We jammed ourselves and all my boxes into your mother's car and drove across the 401 to Hamilton. We might have fit without sitting on each other's laps if all four of us didn't come. But why would anyone stay home when they could...

Where are your parents from?(Poem)
September 22, 1999... She asks, leaning forward, head tilted at an uncomfortable angle. Like Little Red Riding Hood, she notices all my features: What dark hair you've got... and such dark eyes... and your skin, my dear...it's so tanned. I know she's...