American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 1996

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 1996

Electorate and the evolution of Canadian electoral politics.
March 22, 1996... Canada's electoral politics has been profoundly shaped by the changing structure and makeup of the country's electorate. Hardly a profound observation, one that might be made of any liberal democracy, but given the peculiar cast and evolution...

Untangling Karla's web: post-national arguments, cross-border crimes, and the investigation of Canadian culture.
March 22, 1996... The abduction, rape, and murder of two Southern Ontario teenagers in 1991 and 1992 occasioned what some have called the most publicized legal case in Canadian history. Charged with the killings of fourteen-year-old Leslie Mahaffy and...

From TCA to Air Canada: the political patterns of a future Prime Minister.
March 22, 1996... On March 3, 1964, in its first legislative act since the opening of the session, Canada's House of Commons gave unanimous approval to a private member's bill that proposed to change the name of Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), the government-owned...

John Updike's "Toward evening": hoodwinked.
March 22, 1996... It begins on a near-empty bus grinding through the city. We gaze in wonder at the steel and flash of glass, at the splash of people on the streets, and then, in the gathering twilight, through our ever-more-lucid reflection in the window of the...

Urban tourist development in the nineteenth century Canadian city.
March 22, 1996... The beginnings of modern urban tourism can be traced to sixteenth-century Europe's Grand Tour. It began in England and saw the major cities of Italy as its ultimate destination. Initially seen as an educational experience for the sons of...

Proletarian poetics in the 1930s: Clement Marchand's Les soirs rouges.
March 22, 1996... Clement Marchand's collection of poetry, Les Soirs rouges, won the Prix David in 1939, but was not published until 1947. At that time, it was read as a poetic evocation of the plight of the urban poor that betrays, moreover, a deep nostalgia...

Review essay: a reluctant nation finds its voice: English Canada considers the alternatives.
March 22, 1996... Philip Resnick. Thinking English Canada. Toronto: Stoddart, 1994. xii + 129 pp. $19.95 cloth. David Bercuson and Barry Cooper. Deconfederation: Canada Without Quebec. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1991. xi + 180 pp. $14.95 paper. Robert...

Very large soul: selected letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian writers.
March 22, 1996... J.A. Wainwright, ed. and intro. A Very Large Soul: Selected Letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian Writers. Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1995. xxi + 264 pp. $18.95 paper. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact of...

Patriots and proletarians: politicizing Hungarian immigrants in interwar Canada.
March 22, 1996... Carmela Patrias. Patriots and Proletarians: Politicizing Hungarian Immigrants in Interwar Canada. McGill-Queen's Series in Ethnic History. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. 320 pp. With this book, Carmela...

Social classes and Social Credit in Alberta.
March 22, 1996... Edward Bell. Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. xviii + 196 pp. $44.95 cloth. $17.95 paper. Readers may be lulled by the unassuming title of this work, but they should...

"That house in Manawaka": Margaret Laurence's "A bird in the house".
March 22, 1996... Jon Kertzer. "That House in Manawaka": Margaret Laurence's "A Bird in the House." Canadian Fiction Studies. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. 95 pp. $14.95 paper. "That House in Manawaka" is an appropriate title for Kertzer's study of A Bird in...

Trafic des langues: traduction et culture dans la litterature quebecoise.
March 22, 1996... Sherry Simon. Le Trafic des langues: Traduction et culture dans la litterature quebecoise. Montreal: Boreal, 1994. 224 pp. Over the past decade Sherry Simon has established herself as one of the most cogent analysts of contemporary Quebec...

Essays on modern Quebec theater.
March 22, 1996... Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr., and Jonathan M. Weiss, eds. Essays on Modern Quebec Theater. Canadian Studies Series 6. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995. x + 254 pp. $35.00 cloth. This volume includes twelve essays by a number of...

Villages imaginaires: Edouard Montpetit, Jacques Ferron et Jacques Poulin.
March 22, 1996... Pamela V. Sing. Villages imaginaires: Edouard Montpetit, Jacques Ferron et Jacques Poulin. Nouvelles etudes quebecoises. Montreal: Fides-CETUQ, 1995. 272 pp. The village--one of the dominant themes of Francophone literature in Canada since...

Keepers of the culture: the power of tradition in women's lives.
March 22, 1996... Janet Mancini Billson. Keepers of the Culture: The Power of Tradition in Women's Lives. New York: Lexington Books, 1995. xix + 476 pp. $25.00 cloth. Keepers of the Culture is an extremely ambitious volume in which sociologist Billson uses...

Of passionate intensity: right-wing populism and the Reform Party of Canada.
March 22, 1996... Trevor Harrison. Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. xiv + 325 pp. During its brief existence, the Reform party of Canada has been subject to searching...

Waiting for the wave: the Reform Party and Preston Manning.
March 22, 1996... Tom Flanagan. Waiting For the Wave: The Reform Party and Preston Manning. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1995. ix + 245 pp. During its brief existence, the Reform party of Canada has been subject to searching examination, bitter...

Almanac of Canadian politics.
March 22, 1996... Munroe Eagles, James P. Bickerton, Alain-G. Gagnon, and Patrick J. Smith. The Almanac of Canadian Politics. 2nd ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995. xviii + 765 pp. The 1993 Canadian general election convincingly demonstrated that...

Canadian family policies: cross national comparisons.
March 22, 1996... Maureen Baker. Canadian Family Policies: Cross National Comparisons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 466 pp. $25.00 paper. Is Canada still the kinder, gentler society that its boosters claim? This question is examined in...

Family matters: new policies for divorce, lone mothers, and child poverty.
March 22, 1996... Martin D. Dooley, Ross Finnie, Shelley A. Phipps, and Nancy Naylor, with comment by Douglas W. Allen. Family Matters: New Policies for Divorce, Lone Mothers, and Child Poverty. The Social Policy Challenge Series 8. Toronto: C. D. Howe...