In which Patrick talks about Wayson Choy's beautiful novel The Jade Peony and how it portrays the lives of Chinese Canadians of the 1930s. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony, Douglas & McIntyre, 1995.
• Deer, Glenn. An Interview with Wayson Choy. Canadian Literature 163, 1999, pp. 34–44.
• Ty, Eleanor. “‘Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous’: Multiple Voices in Wayson Choyʹs The Jade Peony.” The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 116–34.

In which we discuss the time the Canadian government asked itself: 'wait... are [white] women people?' For real though... We compare that event to two P.K. Page poems. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Brandt, Gail, et al. Canadian Women: A History, 2011.

• Hamilton, Sheryl. Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture, 2013.

• Irvine, Dean J. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916–1956, 2008.

• Killian, Laura. “Poetry and the Modern Woman: P.K. Page and the Gender of Impersonality,” Canadian Literature 150, 1996, pp. 86–105.

• Page. P.K. "After Rain" and "Nightmare".

• Sharpe, Robert J. and Patricia I. McMahon. The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, 2007.

In which Patrick talks to filmaker and writer Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes) about his new book, Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir, which you can find here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

 

In which we discuss the Prime Minister during the opening years of the Depression, and how he mostly struggled to keep things running... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin, 2000.
• Caricature #1 -- Caricature #2 -- Caricature #3
• MacLean, Andrew D. R.B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada. Excelsior Publishing, 1935
• Ondaatje, Christopher. The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1967. Canyon Press, 1967.
• Werthman, William C., ed. Canada in Cartoon: A Pictorial History of the Confederation Years 1867-1967. Brunswick Press, 1967.

In which we discuss some of anti-capitalist responses to the Depression, like the creation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the On-To-Ottawa Trek.

Discussed caricatures/images: On-To-Ottawa; "unemployement relief camps" --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading:

• Baird, Irene. Waste Heritage, 1939.
• The Regina Manifesto, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme, 1933.
• Vanderhaeghe, Guy. “We’re All Right.” 2017

In which we channel our inner feelings and talk about The Great Depression, with the help of Jack Winter's play Ten Lost Years (1974). --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading

Winter, Jack. Ten Lost Years, Talonbooks, 2013.

Patrick sits down with activist Ellen Gabriel (Kanien’kehá:ka, Wakeniáhton) and historian Sean Carleton (University of Manitoba) to discuss their excellent new book When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (released on Sept. 24). --- Find the book here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected] & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

In which we talk about a Looney Toons episode happening in the Arctic - and a bit on another Rudy Wiebe novel!

*Sorry about Patrick's mic quality - he didn't notice it was recording on a different device* --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading

• Wiebe, Rudy. The Mad Trapper, Calgary: Red Deer Press, 1980.

We somehow made a hundred of these bloody things! Why? Who knows? But, for the occasion, we started taking about WLMK, only the longest lasting PM ever. I think it's thanks to his dead mom's advice.

Find our ranking of the P.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000.
• Dawson, R. MacGregor. William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. University of Toronto, 1958.
• Scott, F. R. “W.L.M.K.” The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott, McClelland & Stewart, 1981, pp. 78–79.
• Stacey, C.P. A Very Double Life: The Personal World of Mackenzie King, Macmillan, 1977

In which we discuss one of the most forgotten Prime Ministers in Canada's history: Arthur Meighen. He was a great politician, but... nobody cared and his ideas were outdated.

Find our ranking of the P.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000.
• Cartoon #1 - Conscription
• Cartoon #2 - Wheat Board