Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE NATION. Canadian History as Transnational History 1
5. Introduction: Canadian History, Transnational History 3
6. Part One: Indigenous Peoples and Dispossessions
7. 1. The Dog That Didn’t Bark: The Durham Report, Indigenous Dispossession, and Self-Government for Britain’s Settler Colonies 25
8. 2. The Bannisters and Their Colonial World: Family Networks and Colonialism in the Early Nineteenth Century 49
9. 3. Comparing to Connect: Indigenous Voice, Regionalism, and the Limits of Transnational History 76
10. 4. State-Sponsored Photography and Assimilation Policy in Canada and New Zealand 91
11. 5. Canada and Australia: On Anglo-Saxon “Oceana,” Transcolonial History, and an Interconnected Pacific World 115
12. Part Two: Migrations
13. 6. “In England a man can do as he likes with his property”: Migration, Family Fortunes, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and the Cape Colony 145
14. 7. Slave-Owner, Missionary, and Colonization Agent: The Transnational Life of John Taylor, 1813–1884 168
15. 8. Conceiving a Pacific Canada: Trans-Pacific Migration Networks Within and Without Nations 187
16. 9. “How I wish I might be near”: Distance and the Epistolary Family in Late- Nineteenth-Century Condolence Letters 212
17. 10. “She cannot be confined to her own region”: Nursing and Nurses in the Caribbean, Canada, and the United Kingdom 228
18. Part Three: Nationalisms, Internationalisms, and Antinationalisms
19. 11. Law and Migration across the Pacific: Narrating the Komagata Maru Outside and Beyond the Nation 253
20. 12. Canadian Girls, Imperial Girls, Global Girls: Race, Nation, and Transnationalism in the Interwar Girl Guide Movement 276
21. 13. Health and Nation through a Transnational Lens: Radical Doctors and the History of Medicare in Saskatchewan 293
22. 14. Progressive Catholicism at Home and Abroad: The “Double Solidarité” of Quebec Missionaries in Honduras, 1955–1975 311
23. 15. The End of Empire? Third World Decolonization and Canadian History 341
24. Contributors 365
25. Index 369