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3 Canada Far away across the ocean Is the green land of my birth; There my thoughts are turning ever To the dearest place on earth. Are the fields as green, I wonder, As they were in days of yore When I played in happy childhood By the Blue Atlantic shore?1 This song, penned by Mrs Charles E. Potter from Saskatoon, indicates the complex relationship with the British Isles experienced by many Orangewomen in Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century. As the threat of Home Rule loomed large in 1912, Potter felt the pull of ‘old Ireland’ as she called for
adoption in Canada is a question which you have better means of determining than I possess.’ 3 By 1840 there were four colonies in mainland British North America, clustered in the south-eastern corner of the vast Canadian land mass, the rest of which remained under the administration of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Representative government had been introduced during the last quarter of the eighteenth century
Introduction Museums in Canada have a longer, though somewhat chequered, history than elsewhere in the British Empire. It may have been something of a false start, but they initially emerged from Catholic religious and educational contexts in Quebec. By the nineteenth century, the centre of gravity had moved into the Maritime Provinces, into the realms of auto
nations as White. In post-confederation Canada the franchise was seldom an issue for debate. The need to bring together disparate colonies, the financing and construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the establishing of systems of governance in the old Hudson’s Bay territories were the issues which preoccupied the government in Ottawa in its early nation-building years
The Royal Ontario Museum In 1834 the population of Toronto had been no more than about 10,000. By the 1880s, it stood at around 86,000. But by 1911 it had reached 375,000 and the city was on its way to being the largest in Canada, overtaking Montreal as the principal commercial and industrial centre, and with international ambitions to go with it. The strikingly rapid growth
In the late summer of 1928, twenty-five young women aged 17–18 years, representatives of sixteen élite English public schools, 1 assembled with their parents on the departure platform at Euston Station in London, to begin a two-month tour of Canada. From London they took a train to Liverpool, and then went by sea to Canada. Figure 4.1 outlines the Canadian itinerary
Introduction In 2004, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin released a policy statement on national security titled, “Securing an Open Society: Canada’s National Security Policy” (Government of Canada, 2004 ). Davies ( 2016 ) categorized it as more of a policy framework than a strategy document, nonetheless, he observed
During the Depression and the Second World War the IODE’s vision for Canada was influenced by Britain’s weakening position in relation to a strengthening Canada. Although the influence of investments and popular culture from the USA was increasing at that time, British immigrants were still valued as superior to those of other races and the IODE promoted its own version of
society 1 but, in an age when the majority of people in the homeland had little knowledge of, or interest in, colonial conditions and affairs, migrants who had achieved social status during their stay in less developed colonies faced additional difficulties on their return to the metropole. Such was the situation that faced Canadians visiting or returning to Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. Canadians were often dismayed to find that the British knew very little about the colony, nor was there a fitting
the ‘returned man’ is a curious specimen and difficult, he demands attention on every occasion. 1 The sudden ending of hostilities in November 1918 and the need to repatriate Canadian veterans quickly made it imperative that Ottawa formulate a broader soldier