The Other Quiet Revolution : National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71

José Igartua traces the under-examined cultural transformation of English-speaking Canada woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act to the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971. In The Twenty Years Following The Second World War, Representations Of National Identity In Anglophone Canada Underwent A Deep Transformation. Ethnic Definitions Of Canadian Identity Gave Way To A Rights-based Concept Of Citizenship. The Other Quiet Revolution Traces This Cultural Transformation Woven Through Key Developments In The Formation Of Canadian Nationhood, From The 1946 Citizenship Act And The 1956 Suez Crisis To The Royal Commission On Bilingualism And Biculturalism (1963-70) And The Adoption Of The Federal Bilingualism Policy In 1971. Jose Igartua Analyzes Editorial Opinion, Political Rhetoric, History Textbooks, And Public Opinion Polls To Show How Canada's Self-conception As A British Country Extended Into The 1950s. In The Decade That Followed, However, The British Definition Of Canada Dissolved. Struggles With Bilingualism And Biculturalism, As Well As Quebec's Constitutional Demands, Helped To Fashion New Representations Of National Identity In English-speaking Canada Based On The Civic Principle Of Equality. With Its Sophisticated Conceptual Framework And Systematic Approach To Understand The Discourse Of Canadian Collective Identity, The Other Quiet Revolution Will Appeal To Those Interested In Canadian Identity And Nationalism And To General Readers Of Canadian History.--jacket. Searching For National Identities -- Being Of The Breed -- The Boundaries Of Canadian Citizenship -- Values, Memories, Symbols, Myths, And Traditions -- This Nefarious Work -- When Tories Roar -- Predominantly Of British Origin -- Bewailing Their Loss -- A Long Whine Of Bilious Platitudes -- From Ties Of Descent To Principles Of Equality. José E. Igartua. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [259]-269) And Index. "In the twenty years following the Second World War, representations of national identity in anglophone Canada underwent a deep transformation. Ethnic definitions of Canadian identity gave way to a rights-based concept of citizenship. The Other Quiet Revolution traces this cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act and the 1956 Suez crisis to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70) and the adoption of the federal bilingualism policy in 1971." "Jose Igartua analyzes editorial opinion, political rhetoric, history textbooks, and public opinion polls to show how Canada's self-conception as a British country extended into the 1950s. In the decade that followed, however, the British definition of Canada dissolved. Struggles with bilingualism and biculturalism, as well as Quebec's constitutional demands, helped to fashion new representations of national identity in English-speaking Canada based on the civic principle of equality." "With its sophisticated conceptual framework and systematic approach to understand the discourse of Canadian collective identity, The Other Quiet Revolution will appeal to those interested in Canadian identity and nationalism and to general readers of Canadian history."--Page 4 de la couverture "Unlike most missionary scholarship that focuses on male missionaries, Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife. It presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people." "Emma Crosby's letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well as her assumptions about the supremacy of Euro-Canadian society and of Christianity. They speak to her "good intentions' and to the factors that caused them to "go awry." The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls' Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-raced intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby as a heroic male missionary persevering on his own against tremendous odds."--Résumé de l'éditeur Annotation. Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife through the letters of Emma Crosby to her family and friends in Ontario. Her husband, Thomas Crosby, came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people. The authors critically examine Emma's sincere convictions about mission work and the running of the Crosby Girl's Home, later a residential school, while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-race intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby