Abstract
This paper explores Canada as defined by the Ontario provincial politician T.B, McQuesten in the numerous “make-work” projects he oversaw in the 1930s: the reconstruction of numerous historic sites; the building of the Oakes Garden Theatre, the Clifton Gate Memorial Arch and the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls; and the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Way and the St. Lawrence and Niagara Parkways. McQuesten’s teleological march of settlement and civilization is compared to contemporaneous definitions of Canada and is situated within the international pre-occupation with and the pursuit of modernity in the name of nationalism. His Canada is also evaluated against the parameters of postcolonial theory.
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