A Cultural History of Canada Patrick & Mackenzy

In which we talk about modernism and its early days through a rag-tag group of McGill students who wanted to make poetry different. Many of them would go on to be quite famous in poetry and politics!
FYI: We're in a new Top 5!
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Sources/Further Reading
Irvine, Dean. The Canadian Modernists Meet, University of Ottawa Press, 2005. Norris, Ken. The little magazine in Canada, 1925–80, 1984. New Provinces: Poems by Several Authors, Macmillan, 1936.

In which our heroes discuss the emergence of realism in Canada through an excited talk about two novels: Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese and F.P. Grove's Settlers of the Marsh - both coincidentally published in 1925.
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Sources/Further Reading:
Grove, Frederick Philip. Settlers of the Marsh, McClelland and Stewart, 1925. Ostenso, Martha. Wild Geese, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925.

In which Patrick does a bit of a freewheeling talk about the early days of national radio broadcasting in Canada.
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Sources/Further Reading:
Shea, Albert Aber. Broadcasting the Canadian Way, Harvest House, 1963. Weir, E. Austin. The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada, McClelland and Stewart, 1965.

In which our heroes talk about Archibald Belaney, a.k.a. 'Grey Owl' - a British man who pretended to be an Indigenous eco-activist in the 1920s. He's... complicated...
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Sources/Further Reading:
Belaney, Archibald [Grey Owl], Grey Owl: Three Complete and Unabridged Canadian Classics, Firefly Books, 2001. Dickson, Lovat. Wilderness man: the strange story of Grey Owl, Abacus, 1976. Ruffo, Armand Garnet. Grey Owl: the mystery of Archie Belaney, Regina: Coteau Books, 1996. Smith, Donald B. From the land of shadows: the making of Grey Owl, Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990.

In which our heroes talk about the shockingly pervasive ideas about eugenics in the early 20th century and how they still pop up today.
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Sources/Further Reading:
Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. Dodd, Dianne. "eugenics." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. Ludolph, Rebekah. “Exposing the Eugenic Reader: Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Settler Self-Education,” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 101–120. McLaren, Angus. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics In Canada, 1885-1945, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. Stote, Karen. An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women, Fernwood Publishing, 2015.

Patrick is moving after coming back from a conference, Mack is still reeling from the end of semester, so we vibed by doing quizzes on Canada and talking about news bits. Back to normal in the next episode!