Abstract
In Canada, two powerful structures play significant roles in the creation and dissemination of state-sponsored history. One is the provincial Ministries of Education which maintain control over the curricula of publicly funded grade schools. This is supplemented, federally, through funding that supports national storytelling through mechanisms such as the publicly funded broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). But is there a singular canon in the national history disseminated by these state agencies? We address this question in a case study examining the current grade-12 history curriculum sources from Ontario and Saskatchewan and documents related to the CBC’s award-winning documentary series, Canada: A People’s History, to determine the extent to which three types of historical discourse (commonwealth, mosaic, or social action) appear in Canadian state-sponsored history.
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