Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Imperial Twilight, or When Did the Empire End? 15
5. Canadian Relations with the United Kingdom at the End of Empire, 1956–73 25
6. ‘Ready, Aye, Ready’ No More? Canada, Britain, and the Suez Crisis in the Canadian Press 47
7. The Last Great Royal Tour: Queen Elizabeth’s 1959 Tour to Canada 66
8. ‘An Objective of US Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic’: The United States and the End of Empire in Canada 94
9. Britain, Europe, and Diefenbaker’s Trade Diversion Proposals, 1957–58 117
10. Customs Valuations and Other Irritants: The Continuing Decline of Anglo-Canadian Trade in the 1960s 133
11. Asleep at the Wheel? British Motor Vehicle Exports to Canada, 1945–75 151
12. Britain, Europe, and the ‘Other Quiet Revolution’ in Canada 165
13. Nostalgia and National Identity: The History and Social Studies Curricula of Alberta and Ontario at the End of Empire 183
14. The Persistence of Britain: The Culture Project in Postwar Canada 195
15. From Guthrie to Greenberg: Canadian High Culture and the End of Empire 206
16. Ontario’s Agenda in Post-Imperial Constitutional Negotiations, 1949–68 216
17. The Last Gasp of Empire: The 1964 Flag Debate Revisited 232
18. ‘One Flag, One Throne, One Empire’: The IODE, the Great Flag Debate, and the End of Empire 251
19. More Royal than Canadian? The Royal Canadian Navy’s Search for Identity, 1910–68 272
20. Technology and Empire: The Ideas of Harold A. Innis and George P. Grant 285
21. Petitioning the Great White Mother: First Nations’ Organizations and Lobbying in London 299
22. Contributors 319
23. Index 321