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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Canadian identity"”.
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Sport, crisis, and Canadian identity in 1988: A cultural analysis
"1988 was a particularly noteworthy period in Canadian history. In fact, the particular intersection of a series of political, economic and cultural events led some people to suggest that 1988 constituted ""a year of crisis in Canadian identity"". Among those events were the Canada-United States …
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TRUE NORTH STRONG Canada 150: Canadian Identity and its Contribution to Doping Free Sport
… method provides insight into current Canadian values to compare with those in its sports history. My intimate experiences with Canadians during the Canada C3 expedition, many of whom demonstrated self-sacrifice in their commitment to cultural and moral progress, lead me to believe that …
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Negotiation of 1.5 and Second Generation Filipino Canadian Identity: Language, Internalized Racial Oppression and Ethnic Identity
This master’s thesis analyzes the identity formation of 1.5 and second generation Filipinos in Canada. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted to look at how this demographic defines, understands, and how closely they connect to, their hybrid transnational Filipino Canadian identities while …
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Strange Encounters: An Investigation of Graphic Design-Produced Artifacts that Discuss Hybrid Embodiment of Indo-Canadian Identity
… artifacts that discuss hybrid embodiment of Indo-Canadian identity. Cultural identities are represented as competing against one another, which results in recognizing one another as strangers. Multiculturalism and the migrant perspective are always constructed by proximity between strangers. Using …
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National Project, Regional Perspective: Newfoundland, Canada and Identities, 1949-1991
The Canadian government has long striven for an official national identity grounded in a cohesive sense of national unity, but this has been in contrast to the regional reality of the Canadian state. The postwar period reveals increased concern within Canada regarding its national identity, when …
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National identity and Canadian hockey: Narratives on the 1972 Canada-Russia series
National identity in Canada is rooted in ice hockey. Research on the cultural, social and political significance of hockey have codified Canada’s identity, especially on the international stage. The 1972 Canada-Russia Series, also known as the Summit Series, is not only a national memory – it has …
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The Antiochian Orthodox Syrians of Montreal, 1905-1980 : an historical study of cultural and social change over three generations
… still attached to its ethnic cultural roots, a Canadian identity had emerged among the second generation which mitigated against its full identification with Orthodox Syrian culture. However, this new self-consciousness is well integrated and has produced a unique Syrian-Canadian identity. The …
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Performing the Canadian "Mosaic": Juliette Gauthier, Florence Glenn, and the CPR Festivals of Quebec City
… close collaboration between prominent figures in Canadian musical and cultural history, John Murray Gibbon and Marius Barbeau. Based on Anglocentric concerns for a unique Canadian identity and corresponding school of composition, the festivals served as points of contact between many artists and …
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The 1866 Fenian Raid on Canada West
… to promote Confederation and support a young Canadian identity.
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What do you call this?
… "with a clean new music in it". The Italian-Canadian identity of the poems--or its Italianita --is enacted either through autobiographical narrative or by mediating on certain relevant cultural and societal artifacts. The collection ends with a long poem devoted to reclaiming and celebrating …
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Exhibit Eh: Canadian Dependency, U.S. Hegemony, and the Amorphousness of English Canadian Culture
… to the cultural amorphousness of English Canadian identity. The hegemonic authority of American and trans-national interests, established and maintained in the cultural sphere through the extensive monopoly of the distribution of cultural and media products, perpetuates the amorphousness …
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Spirit Wrestling: Identity Conflict and the Canadian "Doukhobor Problem," 1899-1999
… would be able to preserve their ethno-religious identity on their own terms clashed with Canadian expectations that they would soon integrate into the Canadian mainstream. This study focuses on the historical evolution of the “Doukhobor problem” in Russia and in Canada. It argues that the …
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Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
… breaking the silence over issues that Chinese Canadians faced in the 1990s such as racism and lack of representation. However, there has not been much discussion on Lee and Choy's exploration of language and identity. These issues are important as they continue to impact Chinese-Canadians and …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
… Moore: Cultural Nationalism and the Growth of Canadian Drama 1945-1960" is concerned with the texture and substance of English-Canada's cultural life in the decade and a half following World War II. This thesis represents a case study in English-Canadian cultural nationalism by focussing on the …
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Presencing Settler Colonialism: White Settler Girls’ Engagement with Colonial Violence
… “dysfunction” in order to interrogate settler identity. More precisely, drawing on girlhood theory, Indigenous feminist theories, and settler colonial theory, I examine the ways that white settler girls negotiate recently emerging discourses related to colonial violence against Indigenous women …
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Explorações educacionais (educational explorations) : schooling experiences of second-generation Portuguese Canadian students
… and experiences of second-generation Portuguese Canadian secondary school students in Southern Ontario, Canada. The purpose of this research was to understand the educational experiences of students, specifically the successes, challenges, and struggles that the participants faced within the …
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Wilderness Nation: Building Canada's Railway Landscapes, 1885-1929
Central to Canadian identity is a national consciousness of inhabiting a country of vast landscapes, which are often identified as "wilderness." This thesis explores the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's use of architecture, landscape, and spatial techniques to construct Canadian concepts of …
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"I Feel At Peace". A Standpoint Feminist Perspective of Canadian Muslim Women Studying the Qur'an
… physical, mental and social aspects of life. For Canadian Muslim women, the intersection of their identity, faith and contextual factors all shapes their well-being, now more than ever at a time when we see an increase in gendered Islamophobia. Rationale: The intersection between historical views …
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Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction
… explores the ways in which contemporary black Canadian novels rewrite national space by integrating into it what might be called past and present black spatialities. Regardless of its official policy of multiculturalism, Canada appears unable to reflect the diversity of its population, one of …
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