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Canada in 1848: Pushing at an Open Door
The grant of responsible government to the Province of Canada by the British government in 1848, depicted as a hard-won achievement by Canadian reformers, is a pillar of Liberal history. Donald...
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“When I find a Scotchman to whom an Englishman is as a Scotchman, that Scotchman shall be as an Englishman to me.” — Samuel Johnson Mr. James Kerr, Keeper of the Records: “Half our nation was bribed by...
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Blissfully Unaware
C.P. Champion on a Toronto historian’s memoirs © The Dorchester Review Vol. 2 No. 1 Spring/Summer 2012 “The lives of historians are generally a bore,” Niall Ferguson has said, “just scribble, scribble...
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Putting the Empire Back into Canada
Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars. Jonathan F. Vance. Oxford, 2012. Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt 1884-1885. Carl Benn. Dundurn, 2010. THE...
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1812 & the Fathers of Confederation
When war broke out in 1812, seventeen-year-old Étienne Taché quit school in Quebec City to enroll in the 5th battalion, Lower Canadian Militia. After serving in the reserve at Chateauguay in 1813,...
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Tory History & Its Critics
By C.P. Champion Does the Conservative government have a “History agenda”? The answer seems beyond doubt. Certain professors, opposition MPs, and bloggers believe and denounce it. Mr. Harper’s Tories...
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Did Canada “Exist” in 1812?
How often in the past year and a half have we heard the pedantic refrain that Canada “did not exist” in 1812. “There was no such thing as Canada at the time,” wrote Ian McKay of Queen’s University....
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“The Holocaust & Muslim Opinion”
from “Notes & Topics” The Dorchester Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2012) Holocaust-denial in Muslim lands is spoon-fed to children, the murder of six million depicted from school age as a...
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