American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 2004

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 2004

"As though there was no boundary": the Shipshaw project and continental integration.(US influence in Shipshaw hydroelectric project in Quebec, 1941-43)
June 22, 2004... Here, the foundation of Freedom you've laid; Your weapons--the mattock, the axe and the spade, The crusher, the mixer, the bucket, the drill, A sledge or a hammer, swung with a will! You--men of...

Immigrant integration in Canada and the United States.
June 22, 2004... In Will Kymlicka's spirited defense of Canadian multiculturalism, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), the author writes: Canada does better than virtually any other country in the world in the...

Canadian perceptions of inequality in the context of policy discourse.
June 22, 2004... Introduction Inequality is a common topic in institutional policy discourse, and it has been defined in a variety of ways. However, there has only been limited consideration of its various operating meanings among the public itself. This...

Slip, sliding away or le plus ca change ...: Canadian and American partisanship in comparative perspective.
June 22, 2004... Introduction The 1993 Canadian national election has been characterized as a "critical election," one in which widespread partisan dealignment grounded in the electorate's weak and unstable psychological identification with the three...

Congruence, Conflict, and continental governance: Canada's and Mexico's responses to paradigm shift in the United States (1).
June 22, 2004... The context for this study is a broader inquiry into continental governance under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in which three approaches have yielded relatively meager evidence of an emerging transnational political reality....

Book review essay: ministers at mid-century: Canadian politics and politicians of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s.(Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism)(Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator)(Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Stephen Azzi, Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xxvi + 300 pp. $39.95 cloth. Norman Hillmer, ed., Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien....

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities.(Environment)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Maureen G. Reed. Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 2003. xii +282 pp. $85.00 cloth. Despite years of debate, not all elements of North America's forest conflict have registered...

Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, Performances.(Environment)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Mark Sproule-Jones. Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, Performances. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. 160 pp. $75.00 cloth. With one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water, the North American (Laurentian) Great Lakes are...

Historical Atlas of the Arctic.(Geography)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of the Arctic. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. 208 pp. $75.00. Geographer Derek Hayes, author of the highly regarded Historical Atlas of Canada (2002) has returned with another outstanding publication....

Health Care Reform and the Law in Canada: Meeting the Challenge.(Health)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Timothy A. Caulfield and Barbara von Tigerstrom, eds. Health Care Reform and the Law in Canada: Meeting the Challenge. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press. 2002. 250pp. $39.95 paper. This volume is a collection of papers produced...

Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society and Culture in the Trent Valley.(History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Neil S. Forkey. Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society and Culture in the Trent Valley. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. 164 pp. $34.95 cloth. Neil S. Forkey and the University of Calgary Press are to be...

A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns.(History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Andrew C. Holman. A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xi + 243 pp. $70.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. The amorphous middle class, for all its undeniably...

Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt.(History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David C. Jones, Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xiv + 316pp. $29.95 paper. First, a note of approval to the University of Calgary Press for re-releasing David Jones'...

Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930.(History)(With Scarcely a Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1880-1920.)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Bruno Ramirez, with the assistance of Yves Otis. Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xiv + 219 pp. $34.95 cloth. Randy William Widdis. With...

Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada.(History)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Joan Sangster. Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada. Toronto: between the lines, 2002. vii + 213 pp. $24.95 paper. In this wide-ranging work, Joan Sangster examines "girl trouble" over the period 1908 to 1960, in order to look...

Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature.(Literature)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Laura Moss, ed. Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. viii + 368 pp. $34.95 paper. This volume of essays, edited by University of British Columbia English Professor...

Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography.(Literature)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David Stouck. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xvii + 353 pages. $50.00 cloth. Readers and critics approach biographies to discover an actual person behind the author, or to define the author's...

Album Nelligan: Une biographie en images.(Literature)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Paul Wyczynski. Album Nelligan: Une biographie en images. Montreal: Fides, collection Le Vaisseau d'Or, 2002. 435 pp. $59.95. Emile Nelligan (1879-1941) figure incontestablement comme etant le plus important poete canadien de tous les...

Preserving What Is Valued: Museums, Conservation, and First Nations.(Native Studies)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Miriam Clavir. Preserving What Is Valued: Museums, Conservation, and First Nations. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. xxiv + 295 pp. $95.00 hardcover, $29.95 paper. The life of cultural objects extends beyond their physical preservation. In...

Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-99.(Native Studies)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Bruce W. Hodgins, Ute Lischke, and David T. McNab, eds. Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-99. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003. Aboriginal Studies Series. xi + 276 pp....

Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture, and the State.(Politics and Government)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David R. Cameron and Janice Gross Stein, eds. Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture, and the State. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press, 2002. 184 pp. $85 cloth, $24.95 paper. Although this edited volume is wildly uneven (and...

Canadian Policy: Issues and Perspectives.(Public Policy)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Anne Westhues, ed. Canadian Policy: Issues and Perspectives, 3rd ed. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. vii + 362pp. When initially asked to review Canadian Social Policy: Issues and Perspectives, I reluctantly agreed...

Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere?(Theater)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Diana Brydon and Irena R. Makaryk, eds. Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere? Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xii + 490 pp. $70.00 cloth. A collection of seventeen essays, in addition to an introduction and afterword by the...

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States: upcoming conferences.(Calendar)
June 22, 2004... September 9-10, 2004 Canadian American Research Symposium (CARS), "Constructing National Identities in Canada and the United States," Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) in partnership with ACSUS, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New...

Books received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2004... CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS Axworthy, Lloyd. Liberals at the Border: We Stand on Guard for Whom? Keith Davey Lecture Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 80 pp. $11.95 paper. Condon, Bradley J., and Tapen Sinha. Drawing Lines...