Canada and the British World
Culture, Migration, and Identity
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Canada and the British World
Culture, Migration, and Identity
Table of Contents
Introduction / Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis
1. “Information Wanted”: Women Emigrants in a Transatlantic World / Elizabeth Jane Errington
2. Self-Reflection in the Consolidation of Scottish Identity: A Case Study in Family Correspondence, 1805-50 / Sarah Katherine Gibson
3. Entering the Christian World: Indigenous Missionaries in Rupert’s Land / A.A. den Otter
4. Law and British Culture in the Creation of British North America / David Murray
5. New Brunswick Women Travellers and the British Connection, 1845-1905 / Gail G. Campbell
6. “Our Glorious Anglo-Saxon Race Shall Ever Fill Earth’s Highest Place”: The Anglo-Saxon and the Construction of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada / Paula Hastings
7. Canada’s Boys – An Imperial or National Asset? Response to Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout Movement in Pre-War Canada / Patricia Dirks
8. Part of the British Empire Too: French Canada and Colonization Propaganda / Serge Courville
9. Competing Visions: Canada, Britain, and the Writing of the First World War / Wesley C. Gustavson
10. Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memoralization / Katie Pickles
11. Scrutinizing the “Submerged Tenth”: Salvation Army Immigrants and their Reception in Canada / Myra Rutherdale
12. Enigmas in Hebridean Emigration: Crofter Colonists in Western Canada / Marjory Harper
13. Nation-Building in Saskatchewan: Teachers from the British Isles in Saskatchewan Rural Schools in the 1920s / Marilyn Barber
14. Brushes, Budgets and Butter: Canadian Culture and Identity at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25 / Christopher Tait
15. Instructor to Empire: Canada and the Rhodes Scholarships, 1902-39 / David E. Torrance
16. The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in the 1930s: How
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