A collection of 52 weekly-posted columns by some of Canada’s best historians, this one-year series explains who we are, where we came from, and where we’re going. Interesting and informative, a good guide for Canadians old and new, welcome to The Canadian Experience.
1. Introduction: The Canadian Experience (J.L. Granatstein)
Online only French Translations courtesy of Multimedia Nova Corporation
Traductions en français par Julie Brisset
THE BASICS (Authors: Patrick Brennan • Norman Hillmer • Adam Chapnick)
2. The Geography of Canada
3. The Governor-General
4. The House of Commons
5. The Senate
6. The Canadian Constitution
7. The Constitution Act, 1982
8. The Charter
9. Democracy in Canada: Elections and Voting
10. On Being ‘Canadian’: Citizenship
11. Bureaucratic Nightmares: The Public Service and the Future of Canada
12. Canadian Law and Order: The Courts
POLITICS (Author: Robert Bothwell)
13. The Conservative Party
14. The Liberal Party
15. The CCF and NDP
16. Bloc Québécois
THE LEADERS (Author: Michael Bliss)
17. Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada’s First Prime Minister
18. Sir Wilfrid Laurier: The Man with the Silver Tongue
19. Prime Minister Forever: Mackenzie King
20. Lester Pearson: A Nobel Prize and the Maple Leaf Flag
21. Pierre Elliot Trudeau: Canada’s Fighting Prime Minister
22. The Success Story of Brian Mulroney
23. Jean Chrétien: The Lucky Prime Minister
PEOPLES (Authors: Patrick Brennan • J.L. Granatstein • Robert Bothwell)
24. First Nations: European Contact to the Present
25. The Settlement of Canada – New France, Upper Canada and the Prairies
26. Immigrants Made Canada
27. The Conquest of 1760 and its Consequences
28. Conscription
29. The October Crisis
30. The Beginnings of Canadian Multiculturalism
31. Multiculturalism and its Problems
MAKING THE NATION WORK (Authors: Patrick Brennan • Penny Bryden)
32. Confederation
33. Ontario: Giant of Confederation
34. Quebec: Heart of French Canada
35. The West
36. The Atlantic Provinces
37. Federal-Provincial Constitutional Relations
38. Federal-Provincial Economic Relations
CANADA AND THE WORLD (Authors: Norman Hillmer • J.L. Granatstein)
39. A Miniature of Britain — Well, Not Quite
40. Canada’s British World
41. The Myth of the Undefended Border
42. Even ‘Best Friends’ Have Problems
43. Anti-Americanism at its Peak
44. Canada’s World, Pearson’s World
45. Canada’s Pragmatic World View
WAR AND PEACEKEEPING (Author: David J. Bercuson)
46. Canada’s Great War
47. Canada’s Second World War
48. Canada Fights in Korea
49. Canada: The Peacekeeping Nation?
50. Canada’s Unique Unified Military
51. Peacekeeping Turns into War: the Balkans
52. Canada in Afghanistan
