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AbstractThe speeches of Shingwaukonse between 1846 and 1850 furnish some of the most explicit testimonials to the principle of Native right to be expressed in the United Canadas during the mid-nineteenth century. Shingwaukonse's ideas and actions set precedents which exerted a profound influence on the future course of Indian policy in Canada. By 1850, the chief had defined three major goals for Ojibwa people: first, to establish linkages with government agencies just beginning to exercise jurisdiction in the Upper Great Lakes area; second, to preserve an environment in which Native cultural values and organisational structures could survive; and finally, to devise new strategies conducive to the formation of band governments capable of assuming a degree of proprietorship over resources on Indian lands. Recently a debate has arisen in Canadian historiography over what constitutes “Native agency“, as distinct from “Native viclimhood”. This paper not only rejects the idea that “victimhood“ describes the fate of Shingwaukonse's leadership career, but also stresses the need for the concept of “Native agency” to be expanded beyond the semantic parameters set by the agent/victim dichotomy, so that it may prove a better analytical tool to examine historic evidence of this chief's ideas and actions obtained from both oral and documentary sources.
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AbstractMuch of the historiography of British Columbia's 1871 entry into Confederation has concentrated on the motives of British Columbians in seeking union with Canada. This article examines the discussion of the province's Terms of Union in the Canadian parliament and in the eastern Canadian press, and recasts the debate as a conflict between two competing visions of Canada's economic future. Proponents of the admission of British Columbia believed access to the Pacific would transform the new Dominion into a commercial superpower. Opponents of the Terms looked upon distant, mountainous, and sparsely populated British Columbia as a liability, a region and a community that, unlike the Prairie West, could never conform to the agrarian ideal that underpinned their conception of Canada. A reconsideration of the Terms of Union debate in eastern Canada suggests a broader conception of what constitutes Canada's founding debates, and supports the work of other scholars who have identified an agrarian-commercial cleavage as a defining feature of nineteenth-century Canadian politics.
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This article is an analysis of the discursive space surrounding the terms and conditions of belonging in the Franco-Manitoban community of Saint-Boniface (Manitoba) in 2005. The discourse that is herein analyzed appeared in La Liberté, a French language weekly newspaper. Daniel Lavoie, a Franco-Manitoban singer-songwriter who moved to Québec in the 1970s, addressed a letter to La Liberté expressing his disagreement with the construction of a high-rise, privately owned, residential building on historical ground (the “500 Taché” project). His statements became the center of a spirited debate in the newspaper's pages, as this construction project deeply divided the local community at that time. This analysis of the “500 Taché” project is part of a larger, ongoing analysis of the role of language in the creation of social boundaries in French Manitoba, and the legitimacy of people who left the province as social actors in present day community events and decisions.
Keywords: discours médiatique, légitimité, Manitoba français, Québec, La Liberté, patrimoine, appartenance, identité, mobilité, media discourse, legitimacy, French Manitoba, Québec, La Liberté, cultural heritage, belonging, identity, mobility
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The Second World War forced Canada to become a nation with effective defence research assets, and these assets were among the nation's many contributions to victory in 1945. The historical literature on these developments has been slow to develop though it is now becoming an increasingly popular field of study. This premier historiography attempts to chart how and why the writings on Canada's defence research efforts during the Second World War have grown, its various forms of discourse, and its major themes, controversies, and deficiencies.
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AbstractThis paper argues that in the 1930s Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), in order to sell its cruise ships and luxury hotels, developed and sold an image of Québec as a simple, premodern folk society. It examines CSL's promotional literature and, further, shows how the tourist market CSL created involved others in the construction of this image. Québécois anthropologist and folklorist Marius Barbeau contributed a book of folklore for CSL, and the company worked with the Government of Québec in the handicrafts revival. What united these diverse actors was an antimodern belief that there existed an authentic, true and typical Québecker, the essential core of the nation: the rural habitant.
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Keywords: Hubert Aquin, interprétation, lecture littéraire, communauté interprétative, usage politique, féminisme, nationalisme, littérature nationale (Québec), domination, émancipation
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In this article, we present an argumentative analysis of Galeazzo Flavio Capra’s Della Eccelenza e dignità della donna (1525), one of the least studied Renaissance treatises of the “Querelle des Femmes”. The author, who was educated at the court of the Duchy of Milan, distinguished himself among the notable humanists of his time thanks to his position as secretary to Francesco II Sforza. Capra wrote his text in vernacular prose, reworking classical models and proposing a reinterpretation of Petrarch, Boccacio, and other contemporary writers. This study aims to show the originality of Capra’s work in the face of traditional cultural and literary values which he managed to turn in favour of sixteenth-century women.
Keywords: Rhétorique de la Renaissance, Rhetoric of the Renaissance, Le corps des femmes, Women body, Querelle des femmes, Querelle des femmes, Cornelius Agrippa, Cornelius Agrippa, Rodríguez del Padrón, Rodríguez del Padrón