33 - Orange & Green: Overview of Irish Cultural Impacts
Release Date: 04/04/2021
A Cultural History of Canada
In which our heroes talk about the shockingly pervasive ideas about eugenics in the early 20th century and how they still pop up today. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook ( ---Sources/Further Reading: Dodd, Dianne. "eugenics." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. McLaren, Angus. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics In Canada, 1885-1945, Toronto:...
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In which we discuss the paintings and philosophy of the most famous group of painters in Canada's history -- with a short story by Margaret Atwood for good measure. Patrick also rants in the wake of Brian Mulroney's death, be warned... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:
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In which Pat and Mack discuss who was once one of the most influential and powerful women in Hollywood history - an actress from Toronto! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading: Brownlow, Kevin. Mary Pickford Rediscovered: Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
info_outline 90 - Frank Oliver Call: Bridging Victorian & Modernist PoetryA Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick lectures by himself about a poet whose work, Acanthus & Wild Grape, actively tried to bring Canadian poetry into the realm of modern sensibilities. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading Trehearne, Brian (editor). Canadian Poetry, 1920 to 1960, McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
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In which Patrick talks alone in a microphone as Mack faces a cyclone! The show is going solo this week to talk a little about Japanese-Canadians and how Daphne Marlatt's Steveston interprets their history. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading
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info_outline 88 - Scary Reds! Communists in CanadaA Cultural History of Canada
In which we unleash our anti-capitalist sides (again) to discuss how Marxism/communism was brought over into Canada, what it did and how it failed, as well as some lefty writers that sometimes are great and sometimes aren't. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading Doyle, James. Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a...
info_outlineIn which we cover mini topics as a way of setting up the Irish influence in Canada - and how ideas of sectarianism and unity within that population are more complicated than one might think. Topics include folk music, religion, politics, and St. Patrick's Day riots!
Excerpts of the writings we discuss here: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/episode-33-extras-some-early-irish-writing/
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Further Reading & Sources:
- Akenson, Donald Harman, and David A. Wilson. "Irish." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Davis, J.B. “Medley - On the Grand Procession in Toronto City,” The Dominion Orange Harmonist, 1876, pp.167-171. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t2891q475?urlappend=%3Bseq=180
- “I'se The B'y that builds the boat”, Great Big Sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bQn9DtgUA
- Houston, Cecil J. "Orange Order." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Houston, Cecil J. & William J. Smyth Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, and Letters. Toronto: U of Toronto, 1990.
- ‘Marine Marchande’ by Les Cowboys Fringants (Octobre, 2015). https://open.spotify.com/track/2rtKBSpEgk2PBbMDjjuKtV?si=e5fce04563354b78
- Moore, Thomas. “A Canadian Boat Song”, 1804. https://allpoetry.com/A-Canadian-Boat-Song
- O'Leary, Daniel. “Irish-Canadian Identity, Imperial Nationalism: Irish Book History and Print Culture in Victorian Quebec.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 61–66. www.jstor.org/stable/25515661
- Seaweed, “The Society of Masterless Men”, Green Anarchy, no. 24, 2007. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/seaweed-the-society-of-masterless-men
- Unidentified fiddle track: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/unidentified-tune-ben-lennon-fiddle
- Wilson, David A. The Irish in Canada, Canadian Historical Society, 1989.
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