90 - Frank Oliver Call: Bridging Victorian & Modernist Poetry
Release Date: 02/12/2024
Invested in Crisis: A Conversation w/ Tom Fraser
A Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick talks to about his new book Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future. You can or at ! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (
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UNLOCKED Pop Canada #41 - On Tariffs & Booing Anthems
A Cultural History of Canada
In which we slowly unravel (you have been forewarned) as we talk about the absurdities of our contemporary relations to America... Check out our Patreon page for more episodes (that are slightly less stupid).
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107 - Quebec's Catholic Nationalism: Maurice Duplessis & Félix-Antoine Savard
A Cultural History of Canada
In which we talk about Quebec's 'grande noirceur' period (1939-1959) through its figurehead, Maurice Duplessis, and classic author Félix-Antoine Savard. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Sources/Further Reading Jones, Richard. Duplessis and the union nationale administration, 1983. Savard, Félix-Antoine. Menaud, maître draveur, 1937.
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The Sixties Scoop & Its Afterlives: Talking to Andrea Currie about 'Finding Otipemisiwak'
A Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick talks to Andrea Currie (Métis) about her new book Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, a narrative that extends from Andrea's experience of being a Sixties Scoop survivor. or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (
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The Carbon Tax Question, with Thomas F. Pedersen
A Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick talks to Thomas F. Pedersen (professor emeritus at the University of Victoria) about .--- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (
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Carolyn Roberts on 'Re-Storying Education'
A Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick sits down with Carolyn Roberts to discuss her new book on decolonial education practices and what exactly it means to 're-story' education. or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (
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106 - The Jade Peony: Post-Exclusion Act Chinese-Canadians
A Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick talks about Wayson Choy's beautiful novel The Jade Peony and how it portrays the lives of Chinese Canadians of the 1930s. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( --- Sources/Further Reading Deer, Glenn. An Interview with Wayson Choy. Canadian Literature 163, 1999, pp. 34–44.
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105 - The Persons Case
A Cultural History of Canada
In which we discuss the time the Canadian government asked itself: 'wait... are [white] women people?' For real though... We compare that event to two P.K. Page poems. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( --- Sources/Further Reading Brandt, Gail, et al. Canadian Women: A History, 2011. Hamilton, Sheryl. Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture, 2013. Irvine, Dean J. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916–1956, 2008. Killian,...
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Vantage Points: On Media As Trans Memoir (with Chase Joynt)
A Cultural History of Canada
In which Patrick talks to filmmaker and writer Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes) about his new book, Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir, which or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (
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104 - R.B. Bennett: Another Mama’s Boy
A Cultural History of Canada
In which we discuss the Prime Minister during the opening years of the Depression, and how he mostly struggled to keep things running... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( --- Sources/Further Reading Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin, 2000. -- -- MacLean, Andrew D. R.B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada. Excelsior Publishing, 1935 Ondaatje, Christopher. The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1967. Canyon Press, 1967....
info_outlineIn 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.
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Sources/Further Reading
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Call, Frank Oliver. Acanthus & Wild Grape, McClelland & Stewart, 1920.
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Trehearne, Brian (editor). Canadian Poetry, 1920 to 1960, McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
- Beattie, Munro. “Poetry: 1920-1935.” Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II, edited by Alfred G. Bailey et al., University of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 234–53.