Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. Imagining Postwar Communities
8. Constructing the “Eskimo” Wife: White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940–60 23
9. The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis 45
10. Acadian New Brunswick’s Ambivalent Leap into the Canadian Liberal Order 61
11. The “Narcissism of Small Differences”: The Invention of Canadian English, 1951–67 89
12. From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman’s Discovery of Canada 111
13. Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Bilateral Free Trade: Competing Visions of Canadian Economic and Trade Policy, 1945–70 137
14. Selling by the Carload: The Early Years of Fast Food in Canada 162
15. Diversity and Dissent
16. Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria during the Cold War 193
17. Men Behind the Marquee: Greasing the Wheels of Vansterdam’s Professional Striptease Scene, 1950–75 217
18. New “Faces” for Fathers: Memory, Life-Writing, and Fathers as Providers in the Postwar Consumer Era 241
19. “We Adopted a Negro”: Interracial Adoption and the Hybrid Baby in 1960s Canada 268
20. “Chastity Outmoded!” The Ubyssey, Sex, and the Single Girl, 1960–70 289
21. Law versus Medicine: The Debate over Drug Use in the 1960s 315
22. Contributors 334
23. Index 336