Table of Contents

• • How to use this book

• Thinking through Canada's Early History

  • Introduction
  • Interpretation 1: Peace, "Colonialism and the Words We Choose"
  • Interpretation 2: Luby et al., "(Re)naming and (De)colonizing the (I?)ndigenous People(s) of North America - Part I"
  • Interpretation 3: Luby et al., "(Re)naming and (De)colonizing the (I?)ndigenous People(s) of North America - Part II"
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Thinking Through Canada's Early History

• Assessing the Bering Land Bridge

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Jose de Acosta, The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies
  • Interpretation 1: MacEachern, “A Theory, in Practice: Back to the Bering Land Bridge”
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Assessing the Bering Land Bridge

• Ceremonies of Possession

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Champlain, The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain
  • Document 2: Winthrop, The History of New England
  • Interpretation 1: Reid, "The Doctrine of Discovery and Canadian Law"
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Ceremonies of Possession

• Settling a New France

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: The Loudunais and Mirebalais, c. 1635
  • Document 2: Map of French Settlement around Quebec, 1709
  • Document 3: A General Plan of Annapolis Royal, 1753
  • Document 4: Kalm, Travels into North America
  • Interpretation 1: Kennedy, Marshland Colonization in Acadia and Poitou during the 17th Century
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Settling a New France

• Colonialism and Christianity

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Of Various Obstacles and Difficulties Encountered
  • Document 2: Marie de l'Incarnation: Letter 32: To one of the Good Brothers
  • Interpretation 1: Word Cloud Analysis of the Jesuit Relations
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Colonialism and Christianity

• Treaties in Historical Context

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Dish with One Spoon Treaty (c. 1500 – present)
  • Document 2: Two Row Wampum (c. 1613 – present)
  • Document 3: Great Peace of Montreal (1701)
  • Document 4: Peace and Friendship Treaty Ratification (1728)
  • Document 5: Murray Treaty (1760)
  • Document 6: The Royal Proclamation of 1763
  • Document 7: Treaty of Niagara (1764)
  • Document 8: London Township Treaty (1796)
  • Document 9: Selkirk Treaty (1817)
  • Document 10: Numbered Treaty One (1871)
  • Interpretation 1: Jaime Battiste on Mi’kmaw Treaties
  • Interpretation 2: Murray Sinclair on the Royal Proclamation of 1763
  • Interpretation 3: Hayden King on Anishinaabe Treaties
  • Discussion
  • Review: Treaties in Historical Context

• Were the Black Loyalists Loyal?

  • Introduction
  • Interpretation 1: Cahill, "The Black Loyalist Myth in Atlantic Canada"
  • Interpretation 2: Walker, "Myth, History and Revisionism"
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Were the Black Loyalists Loyal?

• Perspectives on the Fur Trade

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Country Marriages
  • Document 2: Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable
  • Document 3: Diary of Nicholas Garry
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Perspectives on the Fur Trade

• Local Economies and Global Trade

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Colonial Censuses
  • Interpretation 1: Maitland's Moment
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Local Economies and Global Trade

• Pathways to British North America

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: The Life of Josiah Henson
  • Document 2: Roughing it in the Bush
  • Document 3: The Life and Adventures of Wilson Benson
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Pathways to British North America

• Rebellion or Revolution?

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: 92 Resolutions
  • Document 2: 10 Resolutions
  • Interpretation 1: Henderson: "Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence..."
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Rebellion or Revolution?

• First Peoples and Schooling

  • Introduction
  • Interpretation 1: Peace, "Borderlands, Primary Sources, and the Longue Durée"
  • Document 1: Report to the New England Company
  • Document 2: History of the New England Company... during the two years, 1869-1870
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: First Peoples and Schooling

• Considering Gum Shan

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Douglas to the Duke of Newcastle
  • Document 2: Hazlitt, The Great Gold Fields of Cariboo
  • Interpretation 1: Chung, Kwong Lee & Company and the Early Trans-Pacific Trade
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Considering Gum Shan

• Debating Confederation

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Confederation Debates
  • Interpretation 1: Sean Kheraj
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Debating Confederation

• The Trial of Louis Riel

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: The Prisoner's Address
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: The Trial of Louis Riel

• Working in the Nineteenth Century

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Report of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Capital and Labor
  • Interpretation 1: Word Cloud
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Working in the Nineteenth Century

• Drugs, Race, and Moral Panic

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Emily Murphy, The Black Candle
  • Interpretation 1: Yvan Prkachin
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Drugs, Race, and Moral Panic

• Imagining the Great War Soldier

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: War Posters, 1914-1918
  • Interpretation 1: Tim Cook
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Imagining the Great War Soldier

• Re-Constructing a New Canada

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: The Farmers' Platform, 1918
  • Document 2: J.S. Woodsworth, 1919
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Re-Constructing a New Canada

• Relief Camps

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Report of the Commission on Relief Camps, 1935
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Relief Camps

• Wartime Propaganda

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Proudest Girl in the World
  • Document 2: Empty Rooms Mean Idle Machines
  • Document 3: Front of Steel
  • Document 4: Women Are Warriors
  • Document 5: Labour Front
  • Document 6: Keep Your Mouth Shut
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Wartime Propaganda

• Medicare

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Betsy Bury, Working for Medicare
  • Document 2: John Bury, A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare
  • Document 3: Roy Romanow, My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission
  • Interpretation 1: P.E. Bryden, The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Medicare

• Canadian Culture

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949-1951
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Canadian Culture

• Quebec Nationalism in the 1960s

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: René Lévesque, 1960
  • Document 2: Pierre Trudeau, 1964
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Quebec Nationalism in the 1960s

• Residential Schools

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: Bryce, Report on the Indian Residential Schools (1907)
  • Document 2: Bryce, The Story of a National Crime (1921)
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Residential Schools

• White Paper | Red Paper: Debating Indian Policy, 1969-1970

  • Introduction
  • Document 1: White Paper, 1969
  • Document 2: Red Paper, 1970
  • Interpretation 1: Leon Crane Bear
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: White Paper | Red Paper Debating Indian Policy, 1969-70

• Policing Sexualities in Postwar Canada

• Environmental Racism

  • Introduction
  • Interpretation 1: Interview with Ingrid Waldron
  • Interpretation 2: Remember Africville
  • Discussion Questions
  • Review: Environmental Racism
• • About the Authors