Canadian History: Post-Confederation

Book Description: This textbook introduces aspects of the history of Canada since Confederation. “Canada” in this context includes Newfoundland and all the other parts that come to be aggregated into the Dominion after 1867. Much of this text follows thematic lines. Each chapter moves chronologically but with alternative narratives in mind. What Aboriginal accounts must we place in the foreground? Which structures (economic or social) determine the range of choices available to human agents of history? What environmental questions need to be raised to gain a more complete understanding of choices made in the past and their ramifications?

1. Dedication

2. About the Book

3. Acknowledgments

4. Preface

5. Prologue

   1. Introduction to Post-Confederation Canada

6. Chapter 1. Confederation and the Peoples of Canada

   1. 1.1 Introduction

   2. 1.2 Historical Demography of Canada, 1608–1921

   3. 1.3 The Age of Federation

   4. 1.4 Contributory Factors of Confederation

   5. 1.5 Constitutional Crisis

   6. 1.6 Summary

7. Chapter 2. Confederation in Conflict

   1. 2.1 Introduction

   2. 2.2 Nova Scotia's Second Thoughts

   3. 2.3 British Columbia and the Terms of Union

   4. 2.4 Prince Edward Island

   5. 2.5 Canada Captures The West, 1867–70

   6. 2.6 Canada and the First Nations of the West

   7. 2.7 Rebellion 1885

   8. 2.8 Making Sense of 1885

   9. 2.9 The Railway

   10. 2.10 The North

   11. 2.11 The Provincial Rights Movement

   12. 2.12 The Judicial System of Post-Confederation Canada

   13. 2.13 The Other Dominion

   14. 2.14 Summary

8. Chapter 3. Urban, Industrial, and Divided: Socio-Economic Change, 1867-1920

   1. 3.1 Introduction

   2. 3.2 Industrialization, Labour, and Historians

   3. 3.3 The National Policy

   4. 3.4 Rise of a Working Class

   5. 3.5 Urbanization and Industry

   6. 3.6 Craft and Industrial Unions

   7. 3.7 Limits of Democracy

   8. 3.8 Early Women’s Movement(s) in Canada

   9. 3.9 The Great War and the General Strike

   10. 3.10 Summary

9. Chapter 4. Politics and Conflict in Victorian and Edwardian Canada

   1. 4.1 Introduction

   2. 4.2 John A. Macdonald’s Canada

   3. 4.3 Succession Planning

   4. 4.4 The Sunny Ways of Sir Wilfrid Laurier

   5. 4.5 Imperialism vs. Nationalism

   6. 4.6 Canada and Africa

   7. 4.7 Edwardian Crises

   8. 4.8 Summary

10. Chapter 5. Immigration and the Immigrant Experience

    1. 5.1 Introduction

    2. 5.2 Immigration and the National Policy

    3. 5.3 Immigrants by the Numbers

    4. 5.4. The Clifford Sifton Years, 1896–1905

    5. 5.5 The Promised Land

    6. 5.6 The Ukrainian Westerners

    7. 5.7 Culture and Adaptation

    8. 5.8 Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

    9. 5.9 Immigrants and War

    10. 5.10 Female Immigrants and the Canadian State, 1860s through the 20th century

    11. 5.11 Post-War Immigration

    12. 5.12 The Chinese in Canada

    13. 5.13 Summary

11. Chapter 6. The War Years, 1914–45

    1. 6.1 Introduction

    2. 6.2 Borden vs. Borden

    3. 6.3 The Great War

    4. 6.4 Assessing Canada’s War

    5. 6.5 Suffrage and Prohibition

    6. 6.6 The Interwar Years

    7. 6.7 The Natural Governing Party: The King Years

    8. 6.8 Canadian Fascists

    9. 6.9 The Road to WWII

    10. 6.10 Canada Goes to War

    11. 6.11 Newfoundland Goes to War

    12. 6.12 Status Indians and Military Service in the World Wars

    13. 6.13 Canada between the UK and the US

    14. 6.14 Global War

    15. 6.15 The Home Front

    16. 6.16 Enlisted Women, Conscription, and the Zombie Army

    17. 6.17 Japanese Canadians in the Second World War

    18. 6.18 From V-E to V-J

    19. 6.19 Summary

12. Chapter 7. Reform Movements from the 1870s to the 1980s

    1. 7.1 Introduction

    2. 7.2 Social Reform

    3. 7.3 Poverty, 1867–1945

    4. 7.4 Families and Property Rights in Canada

    5. 7.5 Women’s Organizations and Reform

    6. 7.6 Social Gospel

    7. 7.7 Temperance and Prohibition

    8. 7.8 Eugenics

    9. 7.9 Reform Politics: 3rd Parties

    10. 7.10 The Second Wave of Feminism

    11. 7.11 Greenpeace

    12. 7.12 Summary

13. Chapter 8. The Economy since 1920

    1. 8.1 Introduction

    2. 8.2 The Staples Model

    3. 8.3 Capital Markets

    4. 8.4 Economic Cycles

    5. 8.5 The Great Depression

    6. 8.6 The New Economy

    7. 8.7 Three Sectors

    8. 8.8 The Shipping Industry in Canada, 1867 – 1945

    9. 8.9 Canada’s Ocean Fisheries

    10. 8.10 Oil and Gas and the New West

    11. 8.11 Fashioning a Post-War Economy

    12. 8.12 The Postwar Settlement in Canada

    13. 8.13 The Atlantic Provinces

    14. 8.14 Economic Nationalism

    15. 8.15 The Boom Years, the Bust Years

    16. 8.16 The New World Economic Order

    17. 8.17 Post-Industrial Canada

    18. 8.18 Summary

14. Chapter 9. Cold War Canada, 1945-1991

    1. 9.1 Introduction

    2. 9.2 One Dominion

    3. 9.3 The North: Economy and Territory

    4. 9.4 The Cold War

    5. 9.5 Post-War Leadership and State-making

    6. 9.6 Dief is the Chief

    7. 9.7 The Pearson Interlude

    8. 9.8 Trudeau I

    9. 9.9 Cold War Quebec

    10. 9.10 The October Crisis

    11. 9.11 Quebec and the ROC

    12. 9.12 The 1980s

    13. 9.13 Cold War Society: Cities and Suburbs

    14. 9.14 Rural Canada in an Urban Century

    15. 9.15 Cold War Themes

    16. 9.16 The 1960s Counterculture

    17. 9.17 The Sexual Revolution

    18. 9.18 Summary

15. Chapter 10. This is the Modern World

    1. 10.1 Introduction

    2. 10.2 Defining Modernism

    3. 10.3 Antimodernism

    4. 10.4 Consumerism

    5. 10.5 Secular Canada

    6. 10.6 Religion And Irreligion In The Postwar World

    7. 10.7 Gendered Roles after the Wars

    8. 10.8 Canada Noir

    9. 10.9 Historicizing Childhood: The Changing Fortunes of Children and Youth in Canada

    10. 10.10 Teenage Rampage

    11. 10.11 Historical Experiences of Adolescence at Mid-century

    12. 10.12 Youth and Moral Panics

    13. 10.13 Modern Culture

    14. 10.14 A Culture under Siege?

    15. 10.15 The National Pastime(s)

    16. 10.16 Sport and Leisure in Post-Confederation Canada

    17. 10.17 Commercial Sport and Spectating

    18. 10.18 Tourism in 20th Century Canada

    19. 10.19 Summary

16. Chapter 11. First Nations from Indian Act to Idle No More

    1. 11.1 Introduction

    2. 11.2 Environment and Colonialism

    3. 11.3 Natives by the Numbers

    4. 11.4 Aboriginal – Newcomer Relations before Confederation

    5. 11.5 Aboriginal-Newcomer Relations since Confederation

    6. 11.6 Living with Treaties

    7. 11.7 From Agricultural Training to Residential School

    8. 11.8 WWI to 1970

    9. 11.9 The Aqueduct and Colonialism

    10. 11.10 Canada and the Colonized, 1970-2002

    11. 11.11 Residential Schools

    12. 11.12 Idle No More

    13. 11.13 Summary

17. Chapter 12. Canada at the End of History

    1. 12.1 Introduction

    2. 12.2 The End of the Cold War

    3. 12.3 Postmodern Politics

    4. 12.4 Political Recalibrations

    5. 12.5 Identity Politics

    6. 12.6 Building a National Identity

    7. 12.7 Queer and Other Histories

    8. 12.8 The Art of War

    9. 12.9 The Historical Record in the Born-Digital Age

    10. 12.10 Digital Histories

    11. 12.11 Oral History: The Stories Our Grandmothers Tell Us and More

    12. 12.12 Monuments and Memory

    13. 12.13 Summary

18. Appendix: Glossary

19. About the Author and Contributors

20. Other Books by John Douglas Belshaw

21. List of Links for Print Users

22. Versioning History