Volume
85, Number 2, June 2004
Articles
Reforming Women's Reformatories:
Elizabeth Fry, Penal Reform, and the State, 1950-1970
Joan Sangster
Asserting that 'women don't
belong in cages,' a contemporary Elizabeth Fry poster goes on to declare
that 'prisons are the real problem.'(1) With this statement, the Canadian
Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, a resolutely feminist organization,
ventures close to a radical abolitionist view of prisons.
While this platform has emerged
naturally over the past fifty years of Elizabeth Fry's existence,
the initial founders of this penal reform organization (now known
by the shorter epithet, E. Fry) in Canada were of a different world
view, accepting the existence of reformatories and avoiding the self-designation
of 'feminist.'
Governing 'Unwed Mothers'
in Toronto at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Karen Bridget Murray
The historical importance of
the 'unwed mother' at the turn of the twentieth century remains largely
unexamined in Canada.(1) What we do know typically rests on depictions
of unwed mothers as a trans-historical, self-evident category.(2)
Focusing on Toronto, this paper demonstrates that the unwed mother
is a historically specific and mutable classification that was an
integral element of shifts within liberal governance.(3)
Populism and the 1952 Social
Credit Breakthrough in British Columbia
Gordon Hak
Social Credit won nineteen
seats in the June 1952 British Columbia provincial election, allowing
the party to form a minority government. Prior to the election, Social
Credit held no seats in the legislature. Shortly after the election,
W.A.C. Bennett became leader of the party and he quickly took control,
winning an election majority in 1953 and ultimately governing the
province until 1972. As I will argue here, Social Credit's surprising
success in 1952, especially in the Fraser Valley and the Interior,
was not a simple protest against incompetent governing parties. Rather,
it represented a populist response to the spread of large-scale capitalism
in the province after the Second World War.
The 'Cat's Paw': Canada
and the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea
John Price
25 June 2000 marked the fiftieth
anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War, and in a feature article
commemorating the war's onset, Maclean's magazine projected a conventional
assessment of the war: 'The Korean conflict was largely a product
of Cold War tensions. It began when the Communist North invaded the
newly democratic South in late June, 1950. That violated the U.N.
sanctioned division of the Korean peninsula at the 38th parallel where
Soviet and U.S. forces had met in August, 1945, after defeating the
Japanese forces.'
CHR Forum
Mémoire
et récit de l'aventure historiue du Québec chez les
jeunes québécois d'héritage canadian-français
: coup de sonde, amorce d'analyse des résultats, questionnements
Jocelyn L étourneau et Sabrina Moisan
À une époque
où l'on affirme volontiers que les jeunes ne connaissent à
peu près rien de l'histoire du Québec, il est de bon
ton de vérifier jusqu'à quel point ce diagnostic est
vrai. Encore faut-il procéder de manière adéquate
et réaliste en enquêtant sur l'état de leur réflexion
historique plutôt qu'en se contentant de simplement mesurer
l'étendue de leurs savoirs factuels à l'aide de sondages.
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