A Cultural History of Canada Patrick & Mackenzy

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!

In which Patrick talks with wildlife biologist Wayne McCrory about the beautiful - and surprisingly controversial - wild horses of the Chilcotin region.
 
In this compelling book, McCrory draws upon two decades of research to make a case for considering these wonderful creatures, called qiyus in traditional Tŝilhqot’in culture, a resilient part of the area’s balanced prey-predator ecosystem. McCrory also chronicles the Chilcotin wild horses’ genetic history and significance to the Tŝilhqot’in, juxtaposing their efforts to protect qiyus against movements to cull them.


 

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