Course Syllabus
Students must complete all assignments in order to pass this course. Workshop Participation + Assignments will be considered incomplete if four or more tutorials and/or "apply" assignments are missed.
Course Policies
Lecture and tutorial attendance is mandatory. You are expected to arrive to lecture and tutorial on time. If you know you will be absent from tutorial, it is a courtesy to inform the professor.
I aim to make lectures interesting, and to periodically draw you into a conversation. It is not appropriate to browse the web, use Facebook, read or write text messages, or engage in similar activities during lecture. These activities are noticed by the lecturer and they also distract and irritate students around you. Please be considerate of everyone. Turn off your phone
, and do not use your computer without permission. Students who are unwilling to comply with this request may be asked to leave the lecture or tutorial. If you must nap, there is a couch and blanket in my office which you can use after class.
Papers must be submitted in tutorial, at the beginning of tutorial.
In history we use the Chicago Manual of Style referencing system, which is also called the Turabian method. A full guide is available online via the SFU library. I recommend that you check out Zotero, a free, easy-to-use bibliographic management system. It won't take you long to figure out how to use it, and will save you loads of time when it comes to generating bibliographies and footnotes.
Plagiarism is a serious academic offense and will not be tolerated in this class. It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with Simon Fraser University’s academic honesty and student conduct policies. Information on such policies can be reviewed here: www.sfu.ca/policies/Students/index.html
To assist you in developing your understanding of correct referencing methods, complete this quiz http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php Email your results to yourself (not to me!), print them out, and attach them to your first assignment.
Submitted work found to violate SFU's academic honesty policy will automatically receive a zero grade. It will be forwarded to the Chair of the Department of History, a copy will be placed in your file, and you may be subject to further penalty.
Students who can provide documentation of a serious illness or another issue that prevents them from submitting assignments on time will be given an extension. It is essential that students communicate with me concerning such issues in advance of the due date where possible. Extensions are never given after the due date except in extraordinary circumstances.
Late submissions are penalized 5% for the first day, and 2% per day thereafter, including weekend days.
All material, including lectures and displays delivered or provided in this course, are subject to copyright owned by Elise Chenier. It is prohibited to record or copy by any means, in any format, openly or surreptitiously, in whole or in part, in the absence of express written permission from Elise Chenier, any of the lectures, materials provided or published in any form during or from this course. The same is true of tutorials.
8 May Introductory Lecture and Course Review
This course assumes a basic familiarity with post-WWII Canadian history. To re-familiarize yourself with this history, read J.M Bumstead, The Peoples of Canada: A Post Confederation History, Part 4, pp. 314-473 for a right-of-centre point of view, and/or Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, History of the Canadian Peoples, for a left-of-centre point of view. As women constitute more than 50% of the population yet receive much less attention than this in textbooks, you might well consider correcting this imbalance by consulting Canadian Women: a history eds. Gail Cuthbert-Brandt et.al, all on reserve.
This week's assigned readings are: Hobsbawm, "Inventing Traditions," Grant, Chapter 6, Cook, "Nationalism in Canada."
This week's musical accompaniment.
15 May Historical Approaches to Political Leaders(hip); Catholic Quebec.
Required Readings for this week are all online, with links here:
Max Nemi and Monique Nemi, Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada 1914-1944.
To fully grasp this reading it is strongly recommended that you first read this concise history
of French Canada. For those who would like to go deeper, consult chapters 6-8 of A Short History of Quebec.
22 May The Asbestos Strike (1949) and the Quiet Revolution (1960-66)
Readings: 1. Trudeau, "The Asbestos Strike" (CP); 2. Chapter 9 of A Short History of Quebec; 3. Paul-Emile Borduas, “Refus Global” (trans: Total Refusal); (CP); Jean R. Duperrault, "L'Affiare Richard: A Situational Analysis of the Montreal Hockey Riot of 1955," Canadian Journal of History of Sport 1981 12(1): 66-83. CP
Watch a video about the riot. For a longer and quite good mini-doc on the Richard riots, go here.
Today's Canadian Classic musical accompaniment.
Recommended reading: John English, Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919-1968, pp. 289-337; Susan Mann, The Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec, chapter 20, both on reserve.
29 May Canada on the World Stage; Expo '67: The Politics of Culture
Matthew Hayday, "Fireworks, folk-dancing, and fostering a national identity: the politics of Canada Day;" Susan Roy, "Performing Musqueam Culture and history at British Columbia's 1966 centennial celebrations"; Chief Dan George, "Lament for Confederation" (CP).
Watch, and enjoy the soundtrack.
5 June The Medium is the Message; Trudeaumania
Required Reading: Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, bookstore and on reserve; Paul Litt, “Trudeaumania: Participatory Democracy in the Mass-Mediated Nation" (CP).
Further Reading: Wayne Hunt “The Branding of Trudeau,” London J of Canadian Studies 18: 2002/2003, 87–101, John English, Volume 2, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1968-2000.
Today's musical accompaniment. Watch the psychedelic Quebec band "Les Sinners" Perform Go Go Trudeau. On this page, by an English band, The Sinners, in English.
12 June Federalism and the Just Society
1. Trudeau, Globe and Mail and 2. "Just Society" in The Essential Trudeau; 3. Trudeau, “The Values of a Just Society”, all in CP. Cardinal, The Unjust Society pp.1-52. Bookstore and on reserve.
Today's musical accompaniment.
19 June Political Protest I: The FLQ and First Nations
Readings: Annotated FLQ Manifesto CP; Trudeau's statement on declaring the War Measures Act go here: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/2/4/h4-4065-e.html; Cardinal, The Unjust Society, pp. 53-145.
Here's Stompin' Tom Connors' attempt to bridge the French-English gap. What do you think?
26 June Political Protest II: Two Solitudes and the “Third Force” (Bilingualism and Official Multiculturalism)
Government of Canada, "Statement on Multiculturalism"; Neil Bissoondath, Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada, pp. 132-141; Will Kymlicka, “The Merits of Multiculturalism”; Himani Bannerji, "On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of 'Canada'"; Gilbert and Viswanathan, "Covering Multiculturalism: Popular Images and the Politics of a Nation as Reflected on the Covers of the Politics of Maclean's and L'Actualité." All in CP.
Today's Canadian Classic.
3 July Political Protest III: Gay and Women’s Liberation, and Student Activism
Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt, “Clandestine Operations: The Vancouver Women's Caucus, the Abortion Caravan, and the RCMP”; House of Commons Debate on Trudeau’s Omnibus Bill; Valerie Korenik, "The Most Openly Gay Person for at Least a Thousand Miles: Doug Wilson and the Politicization of a Province." All in CP.
Today's Canadian Classic.
10 July The New (English) Canadian Culture and 1976
Linda Griffiths, Maggie and Pierre, 1980 (CP) plus this; and Kristy A. Holmes, "Negotiating Citizenship: Joyce Wieland's Reason Over Passion" (CP)
Today's Canadian Classic: Canadian composer Eldon Rathburn composed this incredible soundtrack for the Expo 67 building "Labyrinth."
17 July Decline and Disenchantment: The Economy and the West
Reading for this week: the novel Taxi!
Prepare an abstract of your paper to share with the tutorial, and be prepared to ask and answer questions. More details to follow.
Today's Canadian classic: Four Strong Winds.
24 July The Triumphant return?: Patriation of the Constitution and "Charter Canadians"
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Paul Bunner, "The death of Trudeau: most of PET's projects are buried in the national debt, but his Charter will afflict us for decades to come,"Newsmagazine (Oct 23, 2000).
This week's classic.
31 July The West Bites Back: The Rise of the Right
Readings: Discover Canada, (handed out in class) Perry and Jones, A People's Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada, Bookstore. "Brand Canada," see link in modules.
Recommended Reading: Ian McKay and Jamie Swift, Warrior nation: rebranding Canada in an age of anxiety (Toronto, ON : Between the Lines, 2012).
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