American Review of Canadian Studies articles from December 2008

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from December 2008

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

Petitions from peripheries of empire: Louisiana and Quebec.
December 22, 2008... By the 1760s, British subjects in North America were familiar with elected assemblies. As their imperial administrators made a concerted effort to control colonial trade and to collect more taxes to pay down a massive war debt that had...

The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Jonathan Swainger, ed., The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2007. vii + 366 pp. $44.50 cloth. Alberta draws a lot of attention...

Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... James Loucky, Donald K. Alper, and J. C. Day. eds. Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008. viii + 343 pp. $34.95 paper. In an interdependent world, where...

Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture, and Commerce.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Whitson, David, and Richard Gruneau, eds. Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture, and Commerce. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006. xi + 282 pp. $26.95 paper. The one-two punch of David Whitson and Richard Gruneau is fast gaining the reputation...

Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... John Sandlos. Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. 352 pp. $32.95 paper. "Modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed,...

The End of Ethics in a Technological Society.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Lawrence E. Schmidt and Scott Marratto. The End of Ethics in a Technological Society. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. ix + 246 pages. $27.95 paper. In this erudite and engaging synthesis, Schmidt and Marratto...

Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... James Loucky, Donald K. Alper, and J.C. Day, eds. Transboundary Policy Challenges in the Pacific Border Regions of North America. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007. 240 pp. $34.95 paper. Before and After 9/11 All border...

Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Ryan Edwardson. Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. viii + 360 pp. $27.95 paper. Any examination of Canadian cultural production necessitates a concurrent review of Canadian...

Canada's International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives and Politics.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Brian W. Tomlin, Norman Hillmer, and Fen Osier Hampson. Canada's International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 432 pp. $66.95 paper. Canada's International Policies, by Brian W. Tomlin,...

Books received.
December 22, 2008... Banks, Catherine. Bone Cage. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press (PLCN), 2007. 111 pp, $17.95 paper. Barton, Bruce, ed. Collaboration and Devising: Critical Perspectives on Canadian 'Theater in English. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press...