American Review of Canadian Studies articles from December 1998

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from December 1998

Cousins of a kind: the Newfoundland and Labrador relationship with the United States.
December 22, 1998... "O my America! my new-found-land..."(1) "The island was worthy of long study, and the folks too--queer folks with strong personalities."(2) On 24 June 1997, while the great world peered expectantly into the new millennium, the...

Current Canadian constitutionalism and the 1865 confederation debate.
December 22, 1998... The purpose of this article is to examine the Confederation debates of 1865 in the hope of illuminating some dark corners of the exhausting constitutional quarrels that have dominated Canadian politics for the past two decades. By the...

Captive three times over: Preston Manning and the dilemmas of the Reform Party.
December 22, 1998... Canadians have been obliged to wrestle with their vastly richer and more powerful neighbour, so much so that they have come to define themselves not as they were and are, but in contradistinction from that great and grasping neighbour.... The...

Dr. Henri Beland: nobody's darling.
December 22, 1998... In May 1918, in the middle of a debate on the civil service bill, Rodolphe Lemieux interrupted the proceedings in the House of Commons to announce that Dr. Henri Beland, Member of Parliament for Beauce and a former Laurier cabinet minister, had...

Canadian Supreme Court and free-expression cases under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
December 22, 1998... Introduction(1) The addition of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Canada's Constitution in 1982 triggered a debate among scholars over the role of the Supreme Court in Canadian politics. At the center of this debate was the issue of...

Untangling the politics of electoral boundaries in Canada, 1993-1997.
December 22, 1998... Introduction On 18 March 1994, the government introduced Bill C-18, An Act to Suspend the Operation of the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (EBRA). Ultimately, the suspension expired and the redistribution based on the 1991 census was...

Amitie/friendship: an investigation into cross-cultural styles in Canada and the United States.
December 22, 1998... J. Barry Gurdin. Amitie/Friendship: An Investigation into Cross-Cultural Styles in Canada and the United States. Bethesda, MD: Austin and Winfield, 1996. 551 pp. $59.95 cloth, $39.95 paper. This book is a landmark, contemporary, comparative...

Steeples and smokestacks: a collection of essays on the Franco-American experience in New England.
December 22, 1998... Claire Quintal, ed. Steeples and Smokestacks: A Collection of Essays on the Franco-American Experience in New England. Worcester, MA: Editions de l'Institut francais, 1996. 683 pp. $24.95 paper. It has been fifteen years since the...

Kelsey papers.
December 22, 1998... Henry Kelsey. The Kelsey Papers. John Warkentin, intro. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1994. xlvii + 88 pp. $25.00 paper. Over the past twenty years, scholarly interest in the European exploration of North America has taken on new...

Columbia journals.
December 22, 1998... David Thompson. Columbia Journals. Barbara Belyea, ed. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xxiv + 336 pp. $ 49.95 cloth Over the past twenty years, scholarly interest in the European exploration of North America...

Settling the Canadian-American west, 1890-1915.
December 22, 1998... John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. xiii + 295 pp. This book is a wonderful contribution to our...

Deep sense of wrong: the treason, trials, and transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian rebels after the 1838 Rebellion.
December 22, 1998... Beverley Boissery. A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason, Trials, and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels After the 1838 Rebellion. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995. xiv + 367 pp. $36.99 cloth. Beverley Boissery is a...

Canadian's guide to the battlefields of northwest Europe.
December 22, 1998... Terry Copp. A Canadian's Guide to The Battlefields of Northwest Europe. Waterloo: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1995. 236 pp. Paper. The extensive literature on the Second World...

Cross-border warriors: Canadians in American forces, Americans in Canadian forces, from the Civil War to the Gulf.
December 22, 1998... Fred Gaffen, ed. Cross-Border Warriors: Canadians in American Forces, Americans in Canadian Forces, From the Civil War to the Gulf. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995. ix + 241 pp. $17.50 paper. In this work, Fred Gaffen has compiled the stories...

Aspects of Louisbourg: essays on the history of an eighteenth-century French community in North America.
December 22, 1998... Eric Krause, Carol Corbin, and William O'Shea, eds. Aspects of Louisbourg: Essays on the History of an Eighteenth-Century French Community in North America. Sydney, NS: University College of Cape Breton Press, 1995. iii + 312pp. $19.95 paper....

Canada dry: temperance crusades before Confederation.
December 22, 1998... Jan Noel. Canada Dry: Temperance Crusades before Confederation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 310 pp. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Ever since humans learned about the process of fermentation by which sugar is converted to...

Hard lessons: the mine mill in the Canadian labour movement.
December 22, 1998... Mercedes Steedman, Peter Suschnigg, and Dieter K. Buse, eds. Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995. x + 326 pp. $22.00 paper. Hard Lessons collects the proceedings of a 1993...

Nation's navy: in quest of Canadian naval identity.
December 22, 1998... Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert, and Fred W. Crickard, eds. A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. xxiv + 460 pp. $49.95 cloth. Anyone who has visited Maritime...

Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-1867: leasehold tenure in the New World.
December 22, 1998... Ian Ross Robertson. The Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-1867: Leasehold Tenure in the New World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xxi + 397 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. For historians of Prince Edward Island, the...

George Grant: selected letters.
December 22, 1998... William Christian, ed. George Grant: Selected Letters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xxiv + 402 pp. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Most readers of this journal probably would know George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) best as the...

Ecstasy of resistance: a biography of George Ryga.
December 22, 1998... Hoffman, James. The Ecstasy of Resistance: A Biography of George Ryga. Toronto: ECW Press, 1995. 336 pp. George Ryga, the Alberta-born writer, remains, over a decade after his death at fifty-five, a controversial and enigmatic figure in...

George Ryga papers.
December 22, 1998... Chevrefils, Marlys, and Apollonia Steele, eds. The George Ryga Papers. Calgary: The University of Calgary Press, 1995. 464 pp. George Ryga, the Alberta-born writer, remains, over a decade after his death at fifty-five, a controversial and...

Self beyond self: Ethel Wilson and Indian philosophical thought.
December 22, 1998... Anjali Bhelande. Self Beyond Self: Ethel Wilson and Indian Philosophical Thought. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1996. 240 pp. $8.00 paper. The Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, has observed that it is in the eyes of another...

Thirty-two short views of Mazo de la Roche.
December 22, 1998... Daniel L. Bratton. Thirty-Two Short Views of Mazo de la Roche: A Biographical Essay. Toronto: ECW Press, 1996. 192 pp. $14.95 paper. It is a curious and unhappy fate that Mazo de la Roche's novels, which resonate so deeply with the unique...

Canadian writers and their works: poetry series: volume twelve.
December 22, 1998... Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley, eds. Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series: Volume Twelve. Toronto: ECW Press, 1996. It has often been argued, of late, that we living in an age of criticism; and this final poetry...