Canada and the British World
Culture, Migration, and Identity
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Canada and the British World
Culture, Migration, and Identity
368 pages

Table of Contents
Introduction / Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis
1. “Information Wanted”: Women Emigrants in a Transatlantic World / Elizabeth Jane Errington
2. Self-Reflection in the Consolidation of Scottish Identity: A Case Study in Family Correspondence, 1805-50 / Sarah Katherine Gibson
3. Entering the Christian World: Indigenous Missionaries in Rupert’s Land / A.A. den Otter
4. Law and British Culture in the Creation of British North America / David Murray
5. New Brunswick Women Travellers and the British Connection, 1845-1905 / Gail G. Campbell
6. “Our Glorious Anglo-Saxon Race Shall Ever Fill Earth’s Highest Place”: The Anglo-Saxon and the Construction of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada / Paula Hastings
7. Canada’s Boys – An Imperial or National Asset? Response to Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout Movement in Pre-War Canada / Patricia Dirks
8. Part of the British Empire Too: French Canada and Colonization Propaganda / Serge Courville
9. Competing Visions: Canada, Britain, and the Writing of the First World War / Wesley C. Gustavson
10. Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memoralization / Katie Pickles
11. Scrutinizing the “Submerged Tenth”: Salvation Army Immigrants and their Reception in Canada / Myra Rutherdale
12. Enigmas in Hebridean Emigration: Crofter Colonists in Western Canada / Marjory Harper
13. Nation-Building in Saskatchewan: Teachers from the British Isles in Saskatchewan Rural Schools in the 1920s / Marilyn Barber
14. Brushes, Budgets and Butter: Canadian Culture and Identity at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25 / Christopher Tait
15. Instructor to Empire: Canada and the Rhodes Scholarships, 1902-39 / David E. Torrance
16. The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in the 1930s: How
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