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This speculative essay uses an imaginary (and non-existent) comic to call a tar-sands industry founder who may have thought of himself as a goose back to Fort McMurray to see how waterfowl fare in tailings ponds. It treats S.C. Ells (1878-1971), an early-20th-century Canadian Department of Mines engineer who was also an amateur writer and illustrator, as a colonial founder not only of the tar-sands industry but also of literary and visual representations of the industry and the Athabasca region. Drawing inspiration from artist and former tar-sands worker Kate Beaton’s “Founding Fathers” comics, it compares the linkages between humans and waterfowl in Ells’s works and in Beaton’s 2014 webcomic “Ducks.” By doing so, it takes Ells on a time-travelling adventure and homecoming tour in the petromodern dystopia that has become his legacy.
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AbstractNationalisms are often accused of racism, and Quebec nationalism is no exception. However, an analysis of content of Parti Québécois' discourse from 1981 to 1990, as reported in five Quebec newspapers, demonstrates the contrary. In fact, the party appears rather open and favourable to Quebec minority communities: be they anglophone, native, immigrant or other. If criticisms are sometimes expressed against the PQ, especially coming from the anglophone community, these do not take place in a racist logic but rather in a political one.
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ABSTRACTYoung Quebecers view their recent past in a mannery that is particularly interesting to describe and analyse. Through a detailed study of the answer-sheets submitted by students participating in the Lionel-Groulx Contest in 1984-1985, we have attempted to ascertain the vision of the past of an age-group too young to have experienced the period that they have discussed: the Duplessis years and the Quiet Revolution.