In which we are joined by long-time background guest and feminist extraordinaire, Camille Houle-Eichel, to talk about the early suffrage movements that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries! We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of those movements, stopping just short of the actual achievement of provincial or federal suffrage. ---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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources/Further Reading:

• Cleverdon, Catherine. The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1950.
• Crawford, Isabella Valancy. “Malcolm’s Katie”. "Old Spookses' Pass," "Malcolm's Katie" and other Poems, Toronto: James Bain and Son, 1884.
• McClung, Nellie. “Speaking to Women”. Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts. Vol 1. Ed. Cynthia Suggars and Laura Moss. Toronto: Pearson, 2009, pp. 533–39 
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• Dorland, Michael, and Maurice R. Charland, “’Impious Civility’: Woman’s Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929,” Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, 2002.
• Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Women's suffrage movement.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. 

 

Patrick is at a conference this week, so no new episode, but enjoy this preview of the latest episode of Pop Canada we recorded last week on the once-superstar singer, Portia White. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode!

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In which, using Lorena Gale's play Angélique, we talk about the life and times of Marie-Joseph Angélique - a New France slave who was accused of burning down almost 50 buildings in Montreal in 1734. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- 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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Cooper, Afua. “Confessions of a woman who burnt down a town.” Utterances and Incantations: Women, Poetry, and Dub in the Black Diaspora, ed. Afua Cooper. SisterVision Press, 1999.
• Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal, The University of Georgia Press, 2007.
• Gale, Lorena. Angélique, Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1998. https://archive.org/details/angelique0000gale/mode/2up (Can be borrowed with a free account)
• Torture and Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project, 2006, https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/angelique/accueil/indexen.html

In which, in honour of Black History Month, Patrick talks to writer and researcher, Professor Carolyn Whitzman about her new book Clara at the Door with a Revolver. A social history of a famous Toronto trial of Clara Ford, a Black cross-dressing woman, the book illuminates an underdiscussed aspect of Canada's working-class history!

Find the book here (on sale on Feb. 1, 2023): https://www.ubcpress.ca/clara-at-the-door-with-a-revolver ---

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A sample of the latest episode of Pop Canada, in which the boys talk about Pop Punk in Canada, how it emerged in the wider post-9/11 cultural sphere, and Simple Plan.

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In which our heroes talk about aspects of emerging French-Canadian nationalism in Canada in the late 19th century. We talk about the national anthem, Henri Bourassa, Gilbert Parker's novel The Seats of the Mighty, and more.

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Sources/Further Reading:

• Harris, Robert. Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem,  McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
• Parker, Gilbert. The Seats of the Mighty, 1896. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6229/6229-h/6229-h.htm
• Rothenburger, Sunnie. “Terror, Love, and the National Voyeur: Gilbert Parker's The Seats of the Mighty.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 34, no. 2, 2008, pp. 91-112.
• Stockdale, John C. “The French Canadian According to Gilbert Parker.” Modern Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1973, pp. 97–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3194458.
• Waterston, Elizabeth. “The Politics of Conquest in Canadian Historical Fiction.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 3, no. 1, 1969, pp. 116–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24776196.

Happy New Year!! We're back to talk about Confederation-era BC and a novel/travelogue called The Western Avernus, which likely influenced Conrad's Heart of Darkness! Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- 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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading/Sources:

• Mouat, Jeremy. “Morley Roberts in the Western Avernus.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 1, 2001, pp. 26–36. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40492820.
• Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London, 1992.
• Roberts, Morley. The Western Avernus, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1887. https://archive.org/details/westernavernus00robegoog/page/n66/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater 
• Stanley, Timothy J. “The Chinese in Canada,” Canadian History: Post-Confederation, edited by John Douglas Belshaw, 2012.
• Treaty 8 map, https://canadianhistoryworkshop.wordpress.com/treaties/treaty-eight/

In which we give a peak behind the paywall curtain as we take a little break during the Holidays. This is the episode we recorded for last year's holiday season.

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In which Patrick sits with author Mary Graham about her new book, A Stunning Backdrop: Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960!

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In which we talk about The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Métis) as a way to address the history and legacy of residential schools in Canada. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- 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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading/Sources:

• Andersen, Chris, and Roger Maaka, eds. The Indigenous Experience: Global Perspectives, 2006.
• Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves, Dancing Cat Books, 2017.
• Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986, University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
• Vowel, Chelsea. Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada, 2016