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HIST 326: Contemporary Canada: Canada After 1945 (Rev. C3) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1 – Canada at Mid-Century

Clarke, Frank. “Keep Communism out of Our Schools: Cold War Anti-Communism at the Toronto Board of Education, 1948-1951.” Labour/Le Travail 49 (2002): 93–119.
Gleason, Mona. “Psychology and the Construction of the ‘Normal’ Family in Postwar Canada, 1945-1960.” Canadian Historical Review 78, no. 3 (1997): 442–477.
Hewitt, Steve. “Information Believed True: RCMP Security Intelligence Activities on Canadian University Campuses and the Controversy Surrounding Them, 1961–71.” Canadian Historical Review 81, no. 2 (2000): 191–229.
Iacovetta, Franca. “Gossip, Contest, and Power in the Making of Suburban Bad Girls: Toronto, 1945–1960.” Canadian Historical Review 80, no. 4 (1999): 585–624.
Kinsman, Gary. “Character Weaknesses and Fruit Machines: Towards an Analysis of the Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service.” Labour/Le Travail 35 (1995): 133–161.
MacKenzie, David. 2001. “Canada’s Red Scare, 1945–1957.” Canadian Historical Association Historical Booklet No. 61. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association.
Martel, Marcel. “They Smell Bad, Have Diseases, and Are Lazy: RCMP Officers Reporting on Hippies in the Late Sixties.” Canadian Historical Review 90, no. 2 (2009): 215–245.
Robinson, Daniel, and David Kimmel. “The Queer Case of Homosexual Security Vetting in Cold War Canada.” Canadian Historical Review 75, no. 3 (1994): 319–45.

Unit 2 – A Nation of Immigrants

Dirks, Gerald. 1977. “Postwar Government Policy.” In Canada’s Refugee Policy: Indifference or Opportunism? Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press.
Badgley, Kerry. “’As Long as He Is an Immigrant from the United Kingdom’: Deception, Ethnic Bias and Milestone Commemoration in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 1953–1965.” Journal of Canadian Studies 33, no. 3 (1998): 130–44.
Ralston, Helen. “Canadian Immigration Policy in the Twentieth Century: Its Impact on South Asian Women.” Canadian Woman Studies 19, no. 3 (1999): 33–7.
Wong, Madeleine. “Ghanaian Women in Toronto’s Labour Market: Negotiating Gendered Roles and Transnational Household Strategies.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 32, no. 2 (2000), 45–76.

Unit 3 – Social History of the Post-War Period

Miller, Jim. “Great White Father Knows Best: Oka and the Land Claims Process.” Native Studies Review 7, no. 1 (1991): 23–51.
Miller, Jim. 2004. “History, the Courts and the Treaty Process: Lessons from Marshall and Nisga’a,” in Aboriginal Policy Research: Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, edited by Jerry White, Paul Maxim, and Don Beavon, 29–44. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
Shewell, Hugh. “Bitterness behind Every Smiling Face”: Community Development and Canada’s First Nations, 1954–1968.” Canadian Historical Review 83, no. 1 (2002): 58–84.
Egan, Brian. “Towards Shared Ownership: Property, Geography, and Treaty Making in British Columbia.” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 95, no. 1: 33–50.

Unit 4 – The changing Role of Women

List of Recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Sangster, Joan. “Radical Ruptures: Feminism, Labor, and the Left in the Long Sixties in Canada.” American Review of Canadian Studies 40.1 (2010): 1–21.
Cohen, Robin. “'Mom Is a Stranger': The Negative Impact of Immigration Policies on the Family Life of Filipina Domestic Workers.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 32, no. 3 (2000): 76–88.
Das Gupta, Tania. “Political Economy of Gender, Race, and Class: Looking at South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 26, no. 1 (1994): 59–73.
Novac, Sylvia. “Not Seen, Not Heard: Women and Housing Policy.” Canadian Woman Studies 11, no. 2 (1990): 53–7.

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Purdy, Sean. “’Ripped off’ by the System: Housing Policy, Poverty, and Territorial Stigmatization in Regent Park Housing Project, 1951–1991.” Labour/Le Travail, no. 52 (2003): 45–108.
Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Home Dreams: Women and the Suburban Experiment in Canada, 1945–60.” Canadian Historical Review 72, no. 4 (1991): 471–504.

Unit 5 – Nationalism and Regionalism

Anker, Lane. “Peacekeeping and Public Opinion.” Canadian Military Journal 6, no. 2 (2005): 23–32.