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Office Location: Chester New Hall 431
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:00pm-6:00pm
Email: shawnday (at) mcmaster (dot) ca.
Tutorial Hours:
T01 - Wednesday 6:00pm-6:55pm ITB 139
T07 - Wednesday 9:00pm-9:55pm ITB 139

Handouts
Tutorial Handout
Dr. Cruikshank’s Course Syllabus
List of Essay Topics

Schedule

Sept 19
  

Introductions

Do all the reading, but before the class, review “How History has changed”, 38-29. This is a brief historiographical paper. What do we mean by historiography? How and why have views of history changed? (Consider the Introduction) How are those changes reflected in Chapter One, particularly 19-23? Try to identify at least two other ways in which this chapter may reflect changing views of history.

J.M. Bumsted, “Introduction, Chapter One”, A History of the Canadian Peoples, Third Edition, vii-40.
Sept 26
  

Native American Women and European Religion

Discussion paper: Identify and discuss one or two ways in which two scholars, Karen Anderson and Nancy Shoemaker, disagree over the effect of Christianity on the lives of Native American women.

Anderson, Karen. “‘Chain Her By One Foot.’” In Chain Her By One Foot: The Subjugation of Women in Seventeenht-Century New France, 192-223. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Shoemaker, Nancy. “Kateri Tekakwitha’s Tortuous Path to Sainthood”. In Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women, ed. Nancy Shoemaker, 47-71. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Oct 3
  

Acadians and Imperial Powers

Discussion paper: Identify and discuss one or two ways in which these two scholars, C. Bruce Fergusson and Naomi Griffiths, differ in their approach to describing the expulsion of the Acadians.

C. Bruce Fergusson, “The Expulsion of the Acadians.” Dalhousie Review, XXXV (1955): 127-35.
N.E.S. Griffiths, “The Decision to Deport”. In From Migrant to Acadian: A North America Border People, 1604-1755, 431-64. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
Oct 10
  

Europeans and Nature in North America

Discussion paper: Identify and discuss one or two ways in which these two scholars, Irene Spry and Sean Cadigan, differ in their view of the European impact on the natural environment of North America.

Spry, Irene . “The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada.’ In As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows eds. A.L. Getty and Antoine S. Lussier, 203-28. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
Cadigan, Sean. “The Moral Economy of the Commons: Ecology and Equity in the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, 1815-55.” Labour/Le Travail, 43 (1999): 9-42.
Oct 17
  

No Tutorials This Week

Sumbit your annotated bibliography and outline to me either at 6:45pm or 8:50pm in the lecture hall.
Oct 24
  

Loyalists and other matters

You should have completed pages 41-154 (to Religion and Education in Chapter Four). Review “The Diary of Sarah Frost” (107), “The ‘Book of Negroes’” (109) “Petition of 1786” (111-12) , How History has Changed Loyalist Legends 125-6, and the text, 106-114. What do the documents tell us about the Loyalists? How does their inclusion suggest the impact of changing approaches to the Loyalists on this textbook?

Bumsted, History of the Canadian Peoples, 41-154.
Oct 31
  

Letters Home: Immigration and Settlement

Starting point: What can a historian learn from these letters? What do they tell us about the process of migration and settlement? What does this information confirm or add to material in Bumsted (in the text, 138-146, and “How History has Changed, 172-3)?

Discussion paper: Analyze one of the documents, discussing its meaning and significance.

Letter of Nathanial Carrothers 1839-1867. Reprinted in Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links and Letters, Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, 252-60, 264-66. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Letters of James Thomson 1844-1862, Testimonial and Gravestone Inscriptions. Reprinted in For Friends at Home: A Scottish Emigrant’s Letters from Canada, California and the Cariboo, 1844-64 ed. R. A. Preston, 46-57, 81-93, 119-23, 204-5, 214-6, 255-8, 297-305, 335-6. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1974.
Nov7
  

Perspectives on the Rebellion of 1837

What types of questions about the rebellion of 1837 do these documents help us answer? What other information would we want to help us confirm any conclusions reached using these documents?

Discussion paper: Analyze one of the documents, discussing its meaning and significance.

No. 39 - Earl of Gosford to Lord Glenelg, 12 October 1837 including enclosures. Reprinted in Copies or Extracts of Correspondence Relative to the Affairs of Lower Canada, 63-71. London: House of Commons, 1837.
Louis Joseph Papineau-George Bancroft correspondences, December 1837. Reprinted in “A Canadian Rebel’s Appeal to George Bancroft”, ed. Lillian F. Gates. New England Quarterly, 41 (1968): 98-104.
Stewart Derbishire to Lord Durham, 24 May 1838. Reprinted in “Stewart Derbishire’s Report to Lord Durham on Lower Canada, 1838”, ed. Norah Storey. Canadian Historical Review 18 (1937): 49-62.
Nov14
  

No Tutorials This Week

Submit your essays to me in the lecture hall at 6:45pm or 8:45pm
Nov21
  

Eyewitness Reports on the Red River Resistance

What types of questions about the red river rebellion do these documents help answer? What kinds of conclusions can we reach about the rebellion, and what other information would we want to know? (The material has been printed in the courseware pack in the order it would have appeared in the Toronto Globe in 1870.) How do the documents relate to what Bumsted says about the Resistance in the text (225-232)

Discussion paper: Analyze one of these documents, discussing it meaning and significance;/em>.

Letters to the editor from “Justitia” [Alexander Begg]: 10 November 1869, Toronto Globe, 2 December 1869; 17 December 1869, Globe, 6 January 1870; 18 February 1870, Globe, 12 March 1870. Reprinted in Reporting the Resistance, ed. J. M. Bumsted, 78-91, 168-79, 241-52. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2003. [Some of Bumsted’s notes and commentary have been edited out of the text.]
XVIII, Special Correspondence by Robert Cunningham to the Globe, 17 January 1870, Globe, 28 January 1870; XIX, Letter from a Red River Loyalist, 22 February 1870, Globe 28 March 1870. Reprinted in Alexander Begg’s Red River Journal and Other Papers Relative to the Red River Resistance of 1869-70, ed. W.L. Morton, 488-97. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1956.
Nov28
  

Final Thoughts

You should have completed the reading of Bumsted to 270, but review for this class by preparing to identify and give the historical significance of two of:

  • Louis Joseph Papineau
  • George Brown
  • Canada First
  • Battle of Batoche

Bumsted, History of the Canadian Peoples, 155-270.

Tutorial FAQ

Not a question or an answer, but rather a warning:
The perils of writing with a thesaurus

Q: What format should I be using for essay citations?
A: As specified on the course outline, Dr. Cruikshank expects you to use K. Turabian’s. Information on this format is covered in great detail in her book: A Manual For Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations which is available in the library as well as online at : Link to Turabian/Chicago Citing Guide at Mills Library

Q: Should the essay use footnotes or endnotes?
A: I prefer footnotes.

Q: Are Online Sources acceptable as essay sources?
A: This is a much more complex question than can be answered here. In the essay assignment you are required to cite the sources listed in the essay handout. These may be obtained online, however you have to ask yourself, are all online sources of the same veracity? The following tutorial will be of use in answering this question:
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/history

Q: What do I do if I am going to be away and unable to attend tutorial?
A: Your first and preferred option is to attend the other tutorial that I hold. Otherwise, contact me prior to your absence and we may be able arrange your makeup assignment as detailed in the tutorial handout. These written makeups must discussion both articles covered during the week you were absent for, outline the major arguments presented and be submitted before the next tutorial session. They should be three pages in length. The submission will be graded and counted towards the participation grade for that week. This submission does not count towards the two short discussion papers you are required to submit during the term.

Q: How many sources do I have to use in my essay?
A: The immediate answer to this is ‘as many as are necessary to adequately substantiate your argument.’ Of course this is not a hard and fast number, and in fact there isn’t one. Each topic is different and the available source base varies widely. At a minimum you must use the two or three sources identified in the essay handout, and augment this with probably at least 3 additional sources. Do not try to use too many sources either. The more current the source you use, the more you can expect that that source will refer to a wider body of additional materials.

Q: So what’s the deal with Wikipedia? Can and Should I use it as asourcse?
A: From Wikipedia itself comes the following: “Most educators and professionals do not consider it appropriate to use tertiary sources such as encyclopedias as a sole source for any information — citing an encyclopedia as an important reference in footnotes or bibliographies may result in censure or a failing grade. Wikipedia articles should be used for background information, as a reference for correct terminology and search terms, and as a starting point for further research.
As with any community-built reference, there is a possibility for error in Wikipedia’s content — please check your facts against multiple sources and read our disclaimers for more information. “