American Review of Canadian Studies articles

Recent articles from American Review of Canadian Studies

From the Editor.(Editorial)
December 22, 2008... Dear Colleagues: The time has come to share with you two major events in our journal's evolution. They promise to strengthen both the quality and the reach of ARCS. Editorial Board/Associate Editors: At our meeting in Toronto last year, the ACSUS board and the journal's Editorial...

J. E. Bernier and the assertion of Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.
December 22, 2008... Les Etats-Unis ont Bird et Peary. L'Angleterre posede Franklin et Shackleton. La Norvege chunk Amundsen et Nansen. Ici, au Canada, nous avons Bernier. (1) Joseph Elzear Bernier does not often rank in the annals of Arctic exploration in the company of Byrd. Shackleton, or Amundsen, but the...

"A barricade of ships, guns, airplanes and men": arming the Niagara border, 1920-1930.
December 22, 2008... On April 19,1929, Chief Boatswain's Mate Hubert E. Wilbur and Surfman Orville M. LaGrant, both members of the US. Coast Guard, began a routine patrol of the Niagara River. The patrol, which nearly ended in bloodshed, provoked an international incident that took almost a year to resolve. The...

Whose mission accomplished? Alberta at the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
December 22, 2008... In the summer of 2006, Alberta became the first ever Canadian province to be featured at the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Festival seeks to celebrate cultural diversity and promote awareness of cultural traditions, but in this case,...

Parading the underworld of New Orleans in Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter.
December 22, 2008... [A place] implies an indication of stability. [...] [S]pace is like the word when it is spoken. [...] In short, space is a practiced place. --de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life On the unnumbered page following the opening dedication to his 1976 novel Coming Through...