1999/2000 ACADEMIC YEAR –
FALL SESSION 2000
HISTORICAL STUDIES 203-L01
OFFICE NO: TBA
TELEPHONE: TBA
Office
Hours: Mondays and Fridays, 10:00-10:50, or by appointment
Course
Description:
The
course introduces students to important themes in the history of what is now
Canada from the earliest native communities to the present. Topics include
Natives and Native-white relations, French-English relations, regionalism and
nationalism, politics, women, and Canada and the world. Lectures will take most
of the class time, although there will be occasional class discussions of major
issues and the readings. Some visual material will be used to illustrate the
content of the course.
Required
Readings:
Historical Studies 203 (Fall Session
2000 - Lecture 01) course pack
Department of History Essay Guide -
available in print and on the History Department web page
(http://hist.ucalgary.ca)
Grading:
First
Exam: 20%
October 11
Biographical
Essay: 35% Due on November 10
Final
Exam: 45% Scheduled by the Registrar
Students
must complete all of the above requirements to pass the course. The exams are
not open book.
Schedule:
SEPTEMBER
11-15
Natives
before contact. Early European exploration and relations with Natives. The
beginnings of New France.
Readings:
Olive
Dickason, Canada’s First Nations, 43-62
Elisabeth
Tooker, ‘Women in Iroquois Society,’ 19-30
SEPTEMBER
18-22
New
France and the Anglo-French struggle for a continent. The Conquest and its
consequences.
Readings:
Jan
Noel, ‘New France: Les Femmes Favorisees, 44-64
S.
Dale Stanton, ‘The Debate on the Social and Economic Consequences of the
Conquest: A Summary,’ 246-54
SEPTEMBER
25-29
Quebec,
Upper and Lower Canada to 1840.
Readings:
Mary
Beth Norton, ‘Eighteenth-Century American Women in Peace and War: The Case of the Loyalists,’ 386-409
Fernand
Ouellet, ‘The Rebellions of 1837/8,’ 413-33
Allan
Greer, ‘1837-38: Rebellion Reconsidered,’ 1-18
OCTOBER
2-6
The
United Canadas and the Maritimes to the 1860s.
Readings:
J.M.S.
Careless, The Union of the Canadas, 1-19
S.J.R.
Noel, Patrons, Clients, Brokers, 164-75
T.G.
Barnes, ‘Historiography of the Acadians’ Grand Derangement, 1755,’ 74-83
OCTOBER
9: No class - Thanksgiving Day
OCTOBER
11: First exam
OCTOBER
13-20
The
fur trade and the Natives’ motives in it. The West to the 1860s.
Readings:
Bruce
Trigger, ‘Early Native North American Responses to European Contact: Romantic versus Rationalistic
Interpretations,’ 1195-1215
Arthur
J. Ray, ‘Fur Trade History as an Aspect of Native History,’ 51-63
Carol
Cooper, ‘Native Women of the Northern Pacific Coast: An Historical Perspective,
1830-1900, 89-116
OCTOBER
23-27
Confederation
and nation building.
Readings:
Gad
Martin, ‘History as Science or Literature: Explaining Canadian Confederation,
1857- 67,’ 557-79
Phillip
Buckner, ‘The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment,’ 532-52
Doug
Owram, ‘The Myth of Louis Riel,’ 163-79
OCTOBER
30-NOVEMBER 3
Early
French-English conflicts, foreign affairs, imperialism and nationalism. Laurier
Liberalism to 1904.
Readings:
Robert
J.D. Page, ‘Carl Berger and the Intellectual Origins of Canadian Imperialist Thought, 1867-1914,’ 39-43
Mason
Wade, The French Canadians, 1760-1967, 495-506
NOVEMBER
6-10 (Biographical essay due on November 10)
Industrialization,
immigration, protest, and social reform. Politics and French-English clashes
from 1905 to 1914.
Readings:
Ronald
Rudin, ‘Revisionism and the Search for a Normal Society: A Critique of Recent Quebec Historical Writing,’ 30-61
Robert
Bothwell, Ian Drummond, and John English, Canada, 1900-1945, 85-105
NOVEMBER
13: No class - reading day
NOVEMBER
15-17
From
the Great War to the 1920s.
Readings:
Susan
Trofimenkoff, ‘The Russians are Next Door: Quebec and World War I,’ 209-21
W.L.
Morton, ‘The Western Progressive Movement, 1919-1921,’ 113-27
E.R.
Forbes, ‘The Origins of the Maritime Rights Movement,’ 100-13
NOVEMBER
20-24
The
Depression and the Second World War.
Readings:
J.L.
Granatstein, ‘How Britain’s Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States,’ 21-40
Jeff
Keshen, ‘Revisiting Canada’s Civilian Women During World War II,’ 239-66
NOVEMBER
27 - DECEMBER 1
From
the early postwar years to the early Trudeau years.
Readings:
Ramsay
Cook, ‘The Historian and Nationalism,’ 119-42
DECEMBER
4-8
The
last quarter century of the millennium.
Readings:
Michael
Asch, ‘To Negotiate into Confederation: Canadian Aboriginal Views on their Political Rights,’ 118-35
Kenneth
McRoberts, ‘Separate Agendas: English Canada and Quebec,’ 543-55
Biographical
Essays:
The essays must be at least eight
pages of double-spaced text (approximately 2000 words), must be based on at
least five sources (books and/or articles), and must conform to the
requirements of the Department of History Essay Guide (students should pay
particular attention to the section on plagiarism). The essay should not simply
be descriptive; it should analyze a historically significant aspect of the
subject’s life. If possible, it should make an argument about him or her. A
half grade will be deducted for each day the paper is late without legitimate
excuse. Students should keep a second copy of their essay to protect them
against loss.
The following are suggested topics.
Students wishing to write on an important Canadian historical figure not listed
below must first consult with the instructor.
NATIVES
Pre-Confederation:
Joseph Brant, Molly Brant, Tecumseh, Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby)
Prairies:
Big Bear, Red Crow, Crowfoot
The
Metis and Red River: Cuthbert Grant, Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, Sally Ross,
John Norquay
FRANCE
IN NORTH AMERICA
Explorers:
Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain
Religious
Figures and Women: Jean de Brebeuf, Francois de Laval, Jean-Louis Le Loutre,
Marie de l’Incarnation, Marguerite Bourgeoys
Political
and Military Leaders: Comte de
Frontenac, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Francois Bigot, Marquis de Montcalm
THE
BRITISH COLONIAL ERA
Early
Political and Military Leaders: Guy Carlton, John Simcoe, Isaac Brock, Charles
Poulett Thompson (Lord Sydenham), Charles Metcalfe, Robert Baldwin,
Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
Leaders
of the 1837-38 Rebellions: Louis-Joseph Papineau, William Lyon Mackenzie
Religious
Figures and Educators: Henry Alline, John Strachan, Egerton Ryerson
Women:
Laura Secord, Susanna Moodie
The
West Beyond the West: James Douglas, Matthew Begbie, Amor de Cosmos
THE
EARLY WEST AND THE NORTH
Explorers
and Fur Traders: Alexander Mackenzie, Peter Pond, David Thompson, John
Franklin, George Simpson, Lord Selkirk, Henry Youle Hind, John Palliser
Missionaries:
John McDougall, Albert Lacombe, William Duncan
MEN
OF CONFEDERATION AND POLITICS TO THE GREAT WAR
Fathers
of Confederation: John A. Macdonald, George Brown, George Etienne Cartier,
Alexander T. Galt
Opponents
of Confederation: Joseph Howe, Antoine-Aime Dorion
Other
Federal Politicians: Alexander Mackenzie, Edward Blake, Wilfrid Laurier,
Clifford Sifton, W.S. Fielding, Henri Bourassa, John Thompson, Robert Borden
Premiers:
Oliver Mowat, Honore Mercier
LATE
NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY REFORMERS
The
Women’s Movement: Emily Stowe, Lady Aberdeen, Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy,
Senator Cairine Wilson, Therese Casgrain, Charlotte Whitton
The
Agrarian Reform Movement: Irene Parlby, Agnes Macphail, Henry Wise Wood, E.C.
Drury, John W. Dafoe
CAPITAL
AND LABOUR
Businessmen:
George Stephen, Donald A. Smith, Timothy Eaton, Joseph Flavelle, Patrick Burns,
Max Aiken, Francois Clergue, Adam Beck, Samuel Bronfman
Labour
Leaders: E.T. Kingsley, R.B. Russell, Helena Rose Gutteridge, William Irvine
TWENTIETH
CENTURY MILITARY MEN
Sam
Hughes, Arthur Currie, Andrew McNaughton
SCIENCE
AND CULTURE
Medical
Doctors: Frederick Banting, Norman Bethune
Writers
and Painters: Paul Kane, Emily Carr, Stephen Leacock, Bob Edwards, George
Grant, Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye
Historians:
Harold Innis, Frank Underhill
POLITICS
SINCE THE GREAT WAR
Old
Party Federal Politicians: Mackenzie King, Arthur Meighen, R.B. Bennett, C.D.
Howe, Louis St. Laurent, Lester B. Pearson, Walter Gordon, John Diefenbaker,
Robert Stanfield, Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark, John Turner, Brian Mulroney, Kim
Campbell, Jean Chretien
Federal
Third Party Leaders: Thomas A. Crerar, J.S. Woodsworth, Tim Buck, Tommy
Douglas, David Lewis, Ed Broadbent
Premiers:
John Bracken, Jimmy Gardiner, Duff Pattullo, W.A.C. Bennett, Mitch Hepburn,
William Aberhart, Ernest Manning, Peter Lougheed, Maurice Duplessis, Jean
Lesage, Daniel Johnson, Robert Bourassa, Rene Levesque, Lucien Bouchard
In
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to Confederation (1994)
Owram,
Douglas, ed. Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide, Vol. 2, Confederation
to the Present (1994)
Dictionary
of Canadian Biography
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on Reserve:
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Jean. Leading Ladies: Canada, 1639-1967 (1977)
Bliss,
Michael. Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business (1987)
Bliss,
Michael. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald
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Brown,
R.C. and Ramsay Cook. Canada, 1896-1921: A Nation Transformed (1974)
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Richard C., ed. Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic
(1996)
Dickason,
Olive P. Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples, second edition (1997)
Dumont,
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Granatstein,
J.L. Canada, 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986)
Innis,
Mary Quale. The Clear Spirit: Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times
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Miller,
J.R. Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada, 2nd edition (1991)
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