Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. “Information Wanted”: Women Emigrants in a Transatlantic World 10
5. Self-Reflection in the Consolidation of Scottish Identity: A Case Study in Family Correspondence, 1805–50 29
6. Entering the Christian World: Indigenous Missionaries in Rupert’s Land 45
7. Law and British Culture in the Creation of British North America 64
8. New Brunswick Women Travellers and the British Connection, 1845–1905 76
9. “Our Glorious Anglo-Saxon Race Shall Ever Fill Earth’s Highest Place”: The Anglo-Saxon and the Construction of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada 92
10. Canada’s Boys–An Imperial or National Asset? Responses to Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout Movement in Pre-War Canada 111
11. Part of the British Empire, Too: French Canada and Colonization Propaganda 129
12. Competing Visions: Canada, Britain, and the Writing of the First World War 142
13. Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memorialization 157
14. Scrutinizing the “Submerged Tenth”: Salvation Army Immigrants and Their Reception in Canada 174
15. Enigmas in Hebridean Emigration: Crofter Colonists in Western Canada 198
16. Nation-Building in Saskatchewan: Teachers from the British Isles in Saskatchewan Rural Schools in the 1920s 215
17. Brushes, Budgets, and Butter: Canadian Culture and Identity at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–25 234
18. Instructor to Empire: Canada and the Rhodes Scholarship, 1902–39 250
19. The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in the 1930s: How Canada’s First Public Broadcaster Negotiated “Britishness” 270
20. Canadian Labour Politics and the British Model, 1920–50 288
21. Historical Perspectives on Britain: The Ideas of Canadian Historians Frank H. Underhill and Arthur R.M. Lower 309
22. The Monarchy, the Mounties, and Ye Olde English Fayre: Identity at All Saints’ Anglican, Edmonton, 1875–1990s 322
23. Contributors 339
24. Index 343