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Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
(TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016)This article surveys science fiction (SF) since 1980, and queries the conspicuous under-representation of recognizable images of unions in popular SF, which includes, in contrast, numerous images and narratives of corporate ... -
The Rev. Griffiths Owen Corbett and the Red River Civil War of 1869-70
(University of Toronto Press (http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=CHR.html), 1976-06)G.F.G. Stanley and W.L. Morton have offered two contradictory and well documented interpretations of the first Riel resistance. Professor Stanley places the resistance within the framework of the frontier thesis. To him ... -
The Rev. James Evans and the social antagonisms of the fur trade society, 1840-1846
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1974)In 1839 the Hudson's Bay Company invited four Methodist missionaries, James Evans, William Mason, Robert T. Rundle and George Barnley, to educate the heathen in Rupert's Land. By 1848 only Mason remained, and in 1854 he ... -
Review of Andrew C. Rouse, The Remunerated Vernacular Singer: From Medieval England to the Post-War Revival
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Review of Helen Creighton: Canada’s First Lady of Folklore, by Clary Croft (Halifax, NS: Nimbus, 1999)
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Review of Songs of the Sea: Traditional Folk Songs and Narratives from the Dr. Helen Creighton Collection (Dartmouth, NS: Helen Creighton Folklore Society, 2003)
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Review of The Expanse (TV series)
(SFRA Review, 2021-05-04)A co-authored review of The Expanse (TV series), focusing on Season 5, for the open-access online journal SFRA Review -
Riel House : A Critical Review
(Archivaria, 1984)A very critical study of the preservation strategies employed at Riel House. Riel House was opened to the public by Parks Canada in the summer of 1980, after almost a decade of research and restoration. Situated at 330 ... -
The Rise of the Heritage Priesthood or the Decline of Community Based Heritage
(Historic Preservation Forum, 1998)In October 1996 the United States Department of the Interior sent a cover letter for a lengthy document to state historic preservation officers and copied "tribes, professional organizations, and other interested parties." ... -
Sampling The Alan Lomax Collection
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2002) -
A selected Western Canada Historical Resources Bibliography to 1985
(Prairie Forum, 1990)The bibliography was compiled from careful library and institutional searches. Accumulated titles were sent to various federal, provincial and municipal jurisdictions, academic institutions and foundations with a request ... -
Shirt and the Happy Man: Theory and Politics in Ethnic Minority Writing
(Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1996)Ethnic minority writing in Canada was once a neglected field not only by Canadianists promoting a canon for a national literature, but also by theorists who focused on the great works from major European languages as the ... -
A snug little flock : the social origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70
(Watson and Dwyer, 1991)Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who are the mixedbloods of North America? Why do they ... -
Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869
(1979)The English-speaking folk of Red River looked with excitement and hope on the debates that surrounded the confederation of the eastern provinces. The Protestant Canadians, arriving in vocal and visible numbers in the 1860s ... -
Some Other Field Recordings by Alan Lomax
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The Songs of the People for Me’: The Victorian Rediscovery of Lancashire Vernacular Song
(Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2006) -
Starting Over: A. L. Lloyd and the Search for a New Folk Music, 1945-49
(Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/Revue de musique folklorique canadienne, 2000)In a previous article in this Journal (1997), the author has outlined Lloyd's early involvement with folk music during the decade 1934-1944 and analyzed the significance of The Singing Englishman. Here he continues the ... -
Stephen Harper as killer robot
(English Studies in Canada, 2017)In popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes ...