Preface1. Debating ConfederationPrimary DocumentsMartin Isaac Wilkins: Document 1: ''Attorney General''s Speech,'' Nova Scotia, House of Assembly, ''Debate on Resolutions Relative to Repeal of the "British North America Act" in the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia; Session 1868''Lieut.-Col. Coffin: Document 2: ''Our New Provinces: British Columbia''Historical InterpretationsReading 1: Forrest Pass, from ''Agrarian Commonwealth or Entrepot of the Orient? Competing Conceptions of Canada and the B.C. Terms of Union Debate of 1871''Reading 2: Peter Russell, from ''Provincial Rights''2. Establishing a New OrderPrimary DocumentsDocument 1: ''An Act Respecting the Administration of Justice, and for the Establishment of a Police Force in the North West Territories'', Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada . first session of the second Parliament, begun and holden at Ottawa, on the fifth day of March, and closed byprorogation on the thirteenth day of August, 1873Document 2: Articles of a Treaty Made and Concluded near Carlton (Treaty No.

6) (1876) *Historical InterpretationsKeith D. Smith: Reading 1: ''Churches, Police Forces, and the Department of Indian Affairs''Sarah A. Carter: Reading 2: ''Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives": Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada''s Aboriginal Communities to 1900''3. Resisting the New OrderPrimary DocumentsJ.S. Dennis: Document 1: ''Memorandum of Facts and Circumstances Connected with the Active Opposition by the French Half-breeds in this Settlement to the Prosecution of the Government Surveys''Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock: Document 2: Two Months in the Camp of Big BearHistorical InterpretationsTom Flanagan: Reading 1: ''Aboriginal Title'' *4. Britishness at the MarginsPrimary DocumentsMargaret G. Yarker: Document 1: ''A Nation''s Welcome''Goldwin Smith *: Document 2: Canada and the Canadian QuestionHistorical InterpretationsKurt Korneski: Reading 1: ''Britishness, Canadianness, Class, and Race: Winnipeg and the British World, 1880s-1910s''Sheila Andrew: Reading 2: ''More than a Flag of Convenience: Acadian Attitudes to Britain and the British around the Time of Queen Victoria''s 1887 Jubilee''5.

Canadians at WorkPrimary DocumentsStephen Leacock *: Document 1: The Unsolved Riddle of Social JusticeJean Thomson Scott *: Document 2: The Conditions of Female Labour in OntarioHistorical InterpretationsCraig Heron: Reading 1: ''The Boys and Their Booze: Masculinities and Public Drinking in Working-class Hamilton, 1890-1946''Melissa Turkstra: Reading 2: ''Constructing a Labour Gospel: Labour and Religion in Early 20th-Century Ontario''6. The First World WarPrimary DocumentsHenri Bourassa *: Document 1: ''The Duty of Canada at the Present Hour: An Address Meant to be Delivered at Ottawa in November and December 1914, but Twice Suppressed in the Name of "Loyalty and Patriotism''"Robert Laird Borden *: Document 2: ''Canada Will Answer the Call: Sir Robert Borden''s Inspiring War-Message to the Canadian People: Speech Delivered at Toronto, Dec. 5th, 1914''Historical InterpretationsTim Cook: Reading 1: ''"He was Determined To Go": Underage Soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force''Tarah Brookfield: Reading 2: ''Divided by the Ballot Box: The Montreal Council of Women and the 1917 Election''7. Marketing the Nation (NEW!)Primary DocumentsJ.E.H. MacDonald: Document 1: Exhibition of Pictures Given by Canadian Artists in Aid of the Patriotic Fund, (1914)Arthur Wardle: Document 2: The Empire needs Men! (.) Enlist Now, (1914-18)Tom Thomson: Document 3: Jack Pine (1916-1917)Anonymous: Document 4: Canadian Information, (c.

1920)G.Y. Kaufmann: Document 5: Trans-Canada Limited, (1924)Arthur Lismer: Document 6: Little Haven, Nova Scotia, (1930)Historical InterpretationsPaula Hastings: Reading 1: ''Branding Canada: Consumer Culture and the Development of Popular Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century''Lynda Jessup: Reading 2: ''The Group of Seven and the Tourist Landscape in Western Canada, or The More Things Change .''8. Racism in CanadaPrimary DocumentsEmily Murphy *: Document 1: The Black CandleDocument 2: An Act Respecting Chinese Immigration, CanadaHistorical InterpretationsDavid Goutor: Reading 1: ''Drawing Different Lines of Color: The Mainstream English Canadian Labour Movement''s Approach to Blacks and the Chinese, 1880-1914''Catherine Carstairs: Reading 2: ''Deporting Ah Sin to Save the White Race: Moral Panic, Racialization, and the Extension of Canadian Drug Laws in the 1920s''9. Fighting from HomePrimary DocumentsMattie Rotenberg *: Document 1: ''It''s a Woman''s War''Anne Frances: Document 2: ''Now Is the Time for Volunteer Workers to Chart the Future''Historical InterpretationsMagda Fahrni: Reading 1: ''Counting the Costs of Living: Gender, Citizenship, and a Politics of Prices in 1940s Montreal'' *Serge Durflinger: Reading 2: From Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec10. The Welfare StatePrimary DocumentsLeonard Marsh: Document 1: From Report on Social Security for Canada 1943Charlotte Whitton *: Document 2: From The Dawn of Ampler LifeHistorical InterpretationsShirley Tillotson: Reading 1: Contributing Citizens: Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-1966Alvin Finkel: Reading 2: ''The Medicare Debate, 1945-80''11. The Quiet RevolutionsPrimary DocumentsJean-Paul Desbiens: Document 1: Les insolences du Frere Untel [The Impertinences of Brother Anonymous]Rene Levesque: Document 2: An Option for QuebecHistorical InterpretationsDavid Seljak: Reading 1: ''Why the Quiet Revolution Was "Quiet": The Catholic Church''s Reaction to the Secularization of Nationalism in Quebec after 1960'' *Eric Bedard: Reading 2: ''The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis''12.

Immigration and MulticulturalismPrimary DocumentsW.M. Haugan: Document 1: ''Cultural Democracy''Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Robert L. Stanfield, David Lewis, Real Caouette: Document 2: ''Announcement of Implementation of Policy of Multiculturalism Within Bilingual Framework'' House of Commons Debates, October 8, 1971Historical InterpretationsStephanie D. Bangarth: Reading 1: ''"We Are Not Asking You to Open Wide the Gates for Chinese Immigration": The Committee for the Repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act and Early Human Rights Activism in Canada''Julie Lalande: Reading 2: ''The Roots of Multiculturalism: Ukrainian-Canadian Involvement in the Multiculturalism Discussion of the 1960s as an Example of the Position of the "Third Force"''13. First Nations - Contemporary IssuesPrimary DocumentsDocument 1: Government of Canada, ''Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy 1969'' *The Indian Chiefs of Alberta: Document 2: ''Citizens Plus'' *Historical InterpretationsHeidi Bohaker and Franca Iacovetta: Reading 1: ''Making Aboriginal People "Immigrants Too": A Comparison of Citizenship Programs for Newcomers and Indigenous Peoples in Postwar Canada, 1940s-1960s''Evelyn Peters: Reading 2: ''"Our City Indians": Negotiating the Meaning of First Nations Urbanization in Canada, 1945-1975''14. Canada in a Globalizing WorldPrimary DocumentsMaude Barlow: Document 1: ''The Free Trade Agreement Fails Canada'' *David Crane: Document 2: ''Myopia Could Wreck Global Trade Dream''Historical InterpretationsDimitry Anastakis: Reading 1: ''Building a New Nova Scotia: State Intervention. The Auto Industry and the Case of Volvo in Halifax, 1963-1998''Diane Pacom: Reading 2: ''Being French in North America: Quebec Culture and Globalization'' ** Retained from the previous edition (All other documents are new to the fourth edition).