This page contains all the information you need to know to successfully participate in Tutorials for 2TT3 Winter 2007

Here you will find information on:

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Office Location: Chester New Hall 431
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00am-12:00pm
Email: shawnday (at) mcmaster (dot) ca.
Tutorial Hours:
T09 - Thursday 12:30-13:20 UH/B126G
T10 - Thursday 9:30-10:20 TSH B107

Note: Your essays are due on 7 March during the lecture. I will not be available from 4 March until 12 March. William Campbell will be leading the tutorial session on 8 March. If you have questions and concerns during the preparation of your essays, please get in touch with me via email, or book a time to see me during office hours on 1 March. These will be extended by an hour to accommodate anticipated demand and will run from 10:30am until 12:30pm. I recommend booking a time to see me during office hours on 1 March as your fellow students may well also be anxious to avail themselves of this opportunity as the deadline draws near for the essay. As I mentioned in tutorial, you my submit a revised first paragraph so I can review thesis statements and introductions for your essay up to 28 February. Good luck.

Handouts
Tutorial Handout
Dr. Frager’s Course Syllabus

Schedule

jan 18   “Civilizing” Native Peoples?

Is Loo convincing that native people were “skilled legal players” in their efforts to avoid punishment for holding potlatches?

Tina Loo, “Dan Cranmer’s Potlatch: Law as Coercion, Symbol, and Rhetoric in British Columbia, 1884-1951,” Canadian Historical Review, vol. LXXIII, no. 2 (June 1992), 125-165.
John L. Tobias, “Protection, Civilization, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada’s Indian Policy,” in J.R. Miller, ed., Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada, 127-144.

jan 18   Work and Protest in the Industrial Age

"Bearing in mind Heron’s discussion of the organization of workers during the later nineteenth and early twentieth century, according to Sangster, do organized unions play a role in the 1907 Bell Telephone Operators Strike?"

Craig Heron, “The Workers’ Revolt,” in Heron’s The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History (second edition), 28-57.
Joan Sangster, “The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike: Organizing Women Workers,” Labour/Le Travail, vol. 3 (1978), 109-130.

1 February : No Tutorials this week…good luck on the proposal.

ESSAY PROPOSAL DUE FRIDAY, 2 FEBRUARY

jan 18   Immigration and “Race”

"Why is there an article on the KKK in your course reader?"

Howard Palmer, “Reluctant Hosts: Anglo-Canadian Views of Multiculturalism in the Twentieth Century,” in R.D. Francis and D.B. Smith, eds., Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation (1994), 143-161.
Constance Backhouse, “`It Will Be Quite an Object Lesson’: R. v. Phillips and the Ku Klux Klan in Oakville Ontario, 1930,” in Backhouse’s Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism
in Canada, 1900-1950, 173-225.

jan 18   Social Reform

"Was the anti-smoking campaign in Montreal during the early 20th century a success or failure? Account for the outcome of this movement."

Jarrett Rudy, “Unmaking Manly Smokes: Church, State, Governance, and the First Anti-Smoking Campaigns in Montreal, 1892-1914,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (2001), 95-114.
Morris Mott, “One Solution to the Urban Crisis: Manly Sports and Winnipeggers, 1900-1914,” in Jeffrey Keshen, ed., Age of Contention: Readings in Canadian Social History, 1900-1945 125-140.

19-23 February: Mid-Term Recess - Hence no office hours this week

Week of 26 February: no tutorials

Note: Your essays are due on 7 March during the lecture. I will not be available from 4 March until 12 March. William Campbell will be leading the tutorial session on 8 March. If you have questions and concerns during the preparation of your essays, please get in touch with me via email, or book a time to see me during office hours on 1 March. I recommend booking a time to see me during office hours on 1 March as your fellow students may well also be anxious to avail themselves of this opportunity as the deadline draws near for the essay. As I mentioned in tutorial, you my submit a revised first paragraph so I can review thesis statements and introductions for your essay up to 28 February. Good luck.

jan 18   The Great Depression

"According to Charlotte Whitton, what are the causes of the failure of the federal relief efforts during the early 1930s and how did she suggest that they could have been remedied?"

James Struthers, “A Profession in Crisis: Charlotte Whitton and Canadian Social Work in the 1930’s,” Canadian Historical Review, vol. LXII, no. 2 (June 1981), 169-185.
Lorne A. Brown, “Unemployment Relief Camps in Saskatchewan, 1933-1936,” in Michiel Horn, ed., The Depression in Canada, 74-101.

jan 18   World War II

"Two of the readings this week examine wartime policy in Canada in light of its long term implications for the nation. Proceeding from these discussions, as a nation, was Canada’s role in the world stronger following and as a result of the war?"

Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, “Ottawa’s War,” in The Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec, 249-265.
J.L. Granatstein, “Staring into the Abyss,” in R.D. Francis and D.B. Smith, eds., Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation (fifth edition), 362-376.
W. Peter Ward, “British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation,” Canadian Historical Review, vol. LVII, no. 3 (Sept. 1976), 289-308.

jan 18   Security, Spying, and Civil Liberties, 1945-1970

"The ‘Red Scare’ of the Cold War era raises many questions about the role of the state in the lives of ordinary Canadians. As an RCMP inspector, how would you justify infiltrating student’s groups during the period 1950-1975, in light of the information presented concerning the surveillance of university campuses during the twentieth century?"

David MacKenzie, Canada’s Red Scare, 1945-1957.
Steve Hewitt, “From the Old Left to the New Left,” in Hewitt’s Spying 101: The RCMP’s Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997, 119-145.

jan 18   Reconstructing Canada

"Pierre Trudeau acted upon the findings of the report of the Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission. The government abandoned biculturalism in favour of multiculturalism, yet accepted official bilingualism. How is this apparent contradiction justified?"

J. Webber, “Competing Nationalisms, Competing Identities,” in Reimagining Canada, 40-74.
Alvin Finkel, “Other Voices in a Neo-Conservative Age,” in Finkel’s Our Lives: Canada after 1945, 360-388.

Tutorial FAQ

Not a question or and 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. Frager 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 fro that week. This submission does not count towards the five short written 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 identieid in ths 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 bodyu 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. “