Dirk Hoerder shows us that it is not shining railroad tracks or statesmen in Ottawa that make up the story of Canada but rather individual stories of life and labour - Caribbean women who care for children ...

In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the
fascinating story of the city’s Chinese in their search for
identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations
of Chinese ...

Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing ...

The first newspaperwomen were employed to attract female subscribers and advertising revenue. Once hired, they found themselves confined to a narrow range of specialties that catered to conventionally ...

Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God’s Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, ...

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Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race
and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and health
care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,
and ...

To examine patterns of social assistance provision specific to particular provinces, Boychuk develops a five-fold typology consisting of “residual,” “market/family enforcement,” “market performance,” ...