History
Write an essay on one of the topics below.
It should be about 2000 words (approximately 7-8 double spaced pages).
Topic 1: Canada and Indigenous People
Binnema, Theodore and Melanie Niemi. “Let the Line Be Drawn Now: Wilderness, Conservation, and the Exclusion of Aboriginal People from Banff National Park in Canada,” Environmental History 11 (2006): 724-750.
Carter, Sarah. “‘We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live’: The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900.” In Indigenous Experience: Global Perspectives, edited by Roger Maaka and Chris Andersen. 219-244. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2006. Ereserves
Coutts, Robert. “’We See Hard Times Ahead of Us’: York Factory and Indigenous Life in the Western Hudson Bay Region, 1880-1925,” Journal of Canadian Studies 51, no. 2 (2017): 434-460.
St. Germain, Jill. “Feed or Fight: Rationing the Sioux and the Cree, 1868-1885,” Native Studies Review 16, no. 1 (2005): 71-90.
Topic 2: War and Peace, 1914-1919
Cook, Tim. “Grave Beliefs: Stories of the Supernatural and Uncanny Among Canada’s Great War Trench Soldiers,” Journal of Military History 77 (April 2013): 521-542.
Humphries, Mark. “The Horror at Home: the Canadian Military and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1919.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société Historique du Canada 16, no. 1 (2005): 235-260
Issit, Benjamin. “Searching for Workers’ Solidarity: The One Big Union and the Victoria General Strike of 1919,” Labour/Le Travail 60 (Fall 2007): 9-42.
Keelan, Geoff. “Canada’s Cultural Mobilization during the First World War and a Case for Canadian War Culture,” Canadian Historical Review 97, no. 3 (2016): 377-403. doi: 10.3138/chr.97.3.Keelan
Topic 3: Depression and Reconstruction: The Welfare State
Houston, C. Stuart, and Merle Massie. “Four Precursors of Medicare in Saskatchewan.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 26, no. 2 (December 2009): 379–93. doi:10.3138/cbmh.26.2.379
Marchildon, Gregory. “Douglas versus Manning: The Ideological Battle or Medicare in Postwar Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies 50, no. 1 (2016): 129-149
Strikwerda, Eric. “The Anatomy of City Relief.” In Eric Strikwerda, The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-1939. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2013: 57-92. Ebsco Ebook Collection and AU Press ebook
Tillotsen, Shirley. “Citizen Participation in the Welfare State: An Experiment, 1945-57,” Canadian Historical Review 75, no. 4 (1994): 511-543