Canadian Affairs Research Articles

Rome in Canada: the Vatican and Canadian affairs in the late Victorian age

In the three decades after Confederation, an aggressive Anglo-Saxon nationalism struggled to imprint its cultural model on the emerging Canadian state. It was countered by a defensive French-Canadian nationalism chiefly articulated by a majority within the Roman Catholic clergy. In this study Roberto Perin explores the role of the Vatican in this struggle, and in the political, religious, and cultural life of Canada during this period.

Roberto PERIN, Rome in Canada : The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age

Roberto PERIN, Rome in Canada : The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age

PERIN, Roberto, Rome in Canada. The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1990. viii-299 p.

PERIN, Roberto, Rome in Canada. The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1990. viii-299 p.

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

Journal Article A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada Get access A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada. By Titley E. Brian (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. viii + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) David Reed Miller David Reed Miller Fort Peck Community College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 3, August 1988, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/968278 Published: 01 August 1988

Editor's Column

The present volume features four articles focusing on various aspects of Canadian media regulation. Jean McNulty (Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications) traces the development of satellite broadcasting from 1969 onward and the ways in which government and business interests have organized his distribution technology to reinforce existing economic and social monoplies of knowledge. Robert Babe (University of Ottawa) relates Canada's differing telephone regulation practices to its particular socio-historical development and problems. Dorothy Zolf (University of Calgary) compares the legal bases of broadcast regulation in Canada and the United States and speculates about the possibilities for dc-regulation. Alan Bartley explores the efficacy of cross-media ownership regulation under the two most recent governments. All writers agree that broadcast regulation is in flux and because it is a political process, the pull of the United States on Canadian affairs remains strong.

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

Hudson's Bay Company Archives 1670–1870: a reference source for natural historians

The Archives Department of the Hudson 's Bay Company was not established until 1924, although North Americans were admitted to the records during the early years of this century. As occasionally happens in Canadian affairs American historians, especially those from the State of Oregon, seemed to be more interested in the records than their British or Canadian counterparts . 2 Considering, however, the roles played by such Company men as John McLoughlin and Peter Skene Ogden in the affairs of the North Pacific States such interest is readily understandable.

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:JEAN STOCKARD and MARIAN M. JOHNSON, Sex Roles: Sex Inequality and Sex Role Development.MARGRIT EICHLER, The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science.ALICE M. YOHALEM, The Careers of Professional Women: Commitment and Conflict.MARTIN KING WHYTE, The Status of Women in Preindustrial SocietiesJACQUES DONZELOT, The Policing of Families. Toronto: Random House of CanadaSHANKAR A. YELAJA (ed.), Canadian Social Policy. Waterloo: Wilfred LaurierGAYLENE BECKER, Growing Old in Silence. Berkeley, Los Angeles and LondonELLIOTT A. KRAUSE. Power and Illness. The Political Sociology of Health and MedicalTHEDA SKOCPOL, States and Social Revolutions, NY: CambridgeVINCENT WRIGHT, The Government and Politics of France. LondonJOHN McCALLUM, Unequal Beginnings: Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario Until 1870. TorontoDOUG OWRAM, Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856–1900. TorontoJ. RICK PONTING and ROGER GIBBINS, Out of Irrelevance: A Socio‐Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada. TorontoROBERT A. SCOTT and ARNOLD R. SHORE, Why Sociology Does Not Apply: A Study of the Use of Sociology in Public Policy.WILLIAM SKIDMORE, Theoretical Thinking in Sociology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: CambridgeJAMES A. SCHELLENBERG, Masters of Social Psychology. New YorkGREGORY BAUM (ed) Sociology and Human Destiny: Essays on Sociology, Religion and Society. New YorkEDWARD A. MAZIARZ (ed.), Value and Values in Evolution. New YorkBRYAN R. WILSON, The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and its Contemporary Survival. Berkeley, Los Angeles, LondonARON HOROWTIZ, Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life. OakvillePIERRE CLICHE, Espace Social et Mobilité Residentielle. Québec: Les Presses de ľ

Out of Irrelevance: A Socio-Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada

Out of Irrelevance: A Socio-Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada

The generalist versus the specialist: the Department of External Affairs

Abstract. This study examines the generalist/specialist controversy in the context of the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Based on survey data with respect to the rotational foreign service officers in the department, the article demonstrates that while in the 1970s External Affairs is still recruiting with the generalist diplomat in mind, a substantial degree of at least partial specialization has developed within its ranks. After establishing that the basic existing types of specialization are area, economic and legal, the article proceeds to ascertain the main requirements for specialists based on the amount of officer time devoted to various activities and the proportion of diplomats responsible for Canadian affairs with respect to various regions. It is determined that administration, personnel, economic, aid and area specialists are the types most required. The educational background of diplomats is also analysed and the article recommends the recruitment of more graduates with university training related to the above types of specialization. Greater use of interdepartmental transfers and appointments from outside the public service is also suggested as a means of meeting departmental requirements. It is also noted that many officers themselves recognize the need for increased specialization in the department in the fields identified. Finally, the study refers to certain subsidiary benefits which External Affairs should derive from increased officer specialization.

The delicate mosaic: A national examination of inter-group relations in Canada

The ethnic diversity which has long characterized Canada calls for a clear reading of Canadian intergroup attitudes. Yet surprisingly, such data has historically been conspicuous by its absence. The author attempts to contribute to the overcoming of this void by presenting extensive data on intergroup attitudes, obtained through a late 1975 national survey. With respect to French-English relations, only about one-half of the country endorses bilingualism, while Francophones and Anglophones differ dramatically in their perception of French power in Canadian affairs. Canadians are found to exhibit considerable anti-Indian and anti-Semitic sentiments, and further to be wary of other groupings such as Blacks, Orientals, and East Indians, especially where the possibility of intermarriage exists. The author concludes with a brief discussion of the meaning of these findings in the light of the two major government intergroup policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism.

Canada and the United States: Their Binding Frontier

Without a counterpart for any other country there is in the United States government a deputy assistant secretary of state for Canadian affairs, a post created in December 1972. This, like the lower-level Office of Canadian Affairs established in 1965, was an institutional recognition of the increasing importance of Canadian-American relations. Were these offices also harbingers of increased state-centric attention to relations between the two countries, which until then had been subject primarily to transnational and transgovernmental management of affairs? Or were they rather recognition that in addition to the uniquely complex web of transborder relationships outside of or at levels below those dealt with by high political authorities, state-centric relations were increasing because of the importance of and increase in unofficial and bureaucratic transactions?

CANADA, QUEBEC AND THEORIES OF INTERNAL WAR

Abstract The past several years have been marked by renewed signs of significant political unrest and separatist activity in Quebec. In the same period of time a number of scholars in different disciplines have revivified the study of domestic violence or internal war. In spite of this temporal co-occurrence, students of Canadian affairs have done little to place that Quebec independence movement in the context of a theory which would make it understandable as a “type” of behavior rather than as a completely unique activity. This paper discusses some of the requirements of such theories, as they relate to political stability and internal war, categorizes a number of existing works in regard to how they explain the sources of political resistance and revolt and attempts to relate them to the current Quebec-Canada difficulties.

Africa in Canadian Affairs

Writing in the pages of this journal at the beginning of the 1960s Douglas Anglin described Canada's policy on Africa as inadequate and incoherent. Whether in terms of trade, aid, or diplomatic representation, our relations with Africa in i960 were extremely limited. Inadequacy was not the only shortcoming, for as Anglin wrote, the government has yet to formulate a recognizable policy towards Africa in the sense of having defined national objectives which it is consciously pursuing. At best, its policy has been negative, an accidental byproduct of policies evolved in relation to other areas.1 Confronted by sixteen new African states in the United Nations, drawn somewhat reluctantly into participating in the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Congo, and faced with a drastically altered Commonwealth, whose new members expected practical benefits as well as endless consultations, Canada was almost unwittingly propelled into involvement in the affairs of the African continent. Does the record of Canada's relations with Africa over the last

Africa in Canadian Affairs

Africa in Canadian Affairs

Book Review on Canadian Affairs: A Party Politician

Book Review on Canadian Affairs: A Party Politician

Book Review on Canadian Affairs: Strange Battlefield, Canadian Naval Operations in Korean Waters 1950–1955

Book Review on Canadian Affairs: Strange Battlefield, Canadian Naval Operations in Korean Waters 1950–1955