Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime
Title | Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime PDF eBook |
Author | Ivana Caccia |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773590943 |
At the time, Canadian policies regarding ethnic communities were preoccupied with the involvement and loyalty these communities had with their homeland's politics and the fear of infiltration from either the left or right of the political spectrum. Focusing on the creation and operation of under-examined government institutions and committees devised to exercise subtle control of minority groups, Ivana Caccia explores the shaping of Canadian identity, the introduction of government-inspired citizenship education, and the management of ethnic relations. An engaging work that offers an important account of nation building in Canada and the treatment of ethnic minorities in times of heightened international tensions, Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime provides crucial insights into multicultural policy and the possibility of parallels with the preoccupations with security and surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11.
Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime
Title | Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime PDF eBook |
Author | Ivana Caccia |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 383 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773536582 |
With the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe, the Canadian government realized that the war effort required not only invoking national consciousness but also involving the twenty percent of the country's population who were not of British or French origins. Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime explores both the anxieties that characterized public debated and policy making at the time and the pragmatic view that the wartime project depended upon the successful integration of marginalized immigrant communities. This history provides a key to understanding the later development of multiculturalism in Canada. At the time, Canadian policies regarding ethnic communities were preoccupied with the involvement and loyalty these communities might have with their homeland's politics and with fears of infiltration from either the left or right of the political spectrum. Focusing on the creation and operation of government institutions and committees devised to exercise subtle control of minority groups, Ivana Caccia explores the shaping of Canadian identity, the introduction of government-inspired citizenship education, and the management of ethnic relations in the mid-twentieth century. An engaging work that offers an important account of nation building in Canada and the treatment of ethnic minorities in times of heightened international tensions, Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime provides crucial insights into multicultural policy and the possibility of parallels with the preoccupations with security and surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11. Book jacket.
Managing the Canadian Mosaic
Title | Managing the Canadian Mosaic PDF eBook |
Author | Ivana Caccia |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 896 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Polish War Veterans in Alberta
Title | Polish War Veterans in Alberta PDF eBook |
Author | Aldona Jaworska |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2019-01-07 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 1772123730 |
In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by war and the Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Canada as farm workers; 750 of these men were accepted by the province of Alberta. Polish War Veterans in Alberta examines how these former soldiers came to experience their new country and its sometimes-harsh postwar realities. This compelling work of social history is brought to life through the words and stories of four veterans, whose remembrances provide an intimate first-hand look at a moment of Canada’s past that is at risk of being forgotten.
Food Will Win the War
Title | Food Will Win the War PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Mosby |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2014-05-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774827645 |
During WWII, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, nutritionists warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished women and children to “Eat Right, Feel Right” because “Canada Needs You Strong” while cookbooks helped housewives become “housoldiers” through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production. Food Will Win the War explores the symbolic and material transformations that food and eating underwent during the war and the profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in the 1940s. Through official food guides and policies, the state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, transforming the way women cooked, what their families ate, and how people thought about food. Canadians, in turn, rallied around food and nutrition to articulate new visions of citizenship for their postwar future.
Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War
Title | Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | R. Scott Sheffield |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 367 |
Release | 2018-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108424635 |
A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.
Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right
Title | Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right PDF eBook |
Author | Bàrbara Molas |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2022-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 100063647X |
Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right examines a neglected aspect of the history of 20th century Canadian multiculturalism and the far right to illuminate the ideological foundations of the concept of ‘third force’. Focusing on the particular thought of ultra-conservative Ukrainian Canadian Walter J. Bossy during his time in Montreal (1931–1970s), this book demonstrates that the idea that Canada was composed of three equally important groups emerged from a context defined by reactionary ideas on ethnic diversity and integration. Two broad questions shape this research: first, what the meaning originally attached to the idea of a ‘third force’ was, and what the intentions behind the conceptualization of a trichotomic Canada were; and second, whether Bossy’s understanding of the ‘third force’ precedes, or is related in any way to, postwar debates on liberal multiculturalism at the core of which was the existence of a ‘third force’. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of multiculturalism, radical-right ideology and the far right, and Canadian history and politics.