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Now Available at Canadian Historical Review Online Canadian Historical Review Volume 91, Number 3 / September 2010 is now available at <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/r11r5542589x/> http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/r11r5542589x/. This issue contains: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n56176h8wp7g22h2/> Care for the 'Racially Careless': Indian Hospitals in the Canadian West, 1920-1950s Maureen K. Lux Abstract: In the 1930s, sanatorium directors and medical bureaucrats warned of the threat to Canadian society of 'Indian tuberculosis.' Long-standing government policy aimed to isolate Aboriginal people on reserves and in residential schools, while their access to medical care was limited by government parsimony and community prejudice. Characterized as 'racially careless' concerning their own health, Aboriginal bodies were seen as a menace to their neighbours and a danger to the nation. By the 1940s state-run racially segregated Indian hospitals institutionalized Aboriginal people who were not welcome in provincial sanatoria or in the modernizing community hospitals. The opening of the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton in 1946, one of the first acts of the newly created department of National Health and Welfare, was a very public demonstration of the state's commitment to define and promote 'national health' by isolating and institutionalizing Aboriginal people. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n56176h8wp7g22h2/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=0<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n56176h8wp7g22h2/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=0> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n56176h8wp7g22h2/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.407 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f4546222226v474q/> Sergeant Masumi Mitsui and the Japanese Canadian War Memorial Lyle Dick Abstract: For much of the twentieth century, military commemoration operated in a context of pan-Canadian remembrance. This emphasis overlooked the groups outside the mainstream that pursued their own goals through military service and commemoration, which sometimes differed from and challenged the hegemony of national collective memory. A case in point is the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Vancouver and its intersections with the military service of Masumi Mitsui and other Japanese-Canadian soldiers of the First World War. After the war, the Japanese-Canadian veterans fought for the right to vote in provincial elections, which they eventually secured in 1931, thereby becoming the first Asian Canadians to attain the franchise in British Columbia. The veterans' wartime service could not prevent anti-Japanese-Canadian sentiment before and during the Second World War, leading to the seizure of their properties and their forced removal from the coast. The article foregrounds Mitsui's return to Vancouver in 1985 as the honoured guest in a ceremony to relight the lantern at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial. Drawing on insights of the philosopher of history Walter Benjamin, this history is approached in light of Benjamin's account of storytelling traditions and the 'now-time' of historical agency. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f4546222226v474q/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=1<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f4546222226v474q/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=1> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f4546222226v474q/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.435 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f51060221077515u/> Confronting the Cold War: The 1950 Vancouver Convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Benjamin Isitt Abstract: The 1950 Vancouver convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (ccf) opened against the backdrop of the Korean War and tense Cold War debates within Canada's social democratic party. Providing a window into this moment of ideological tension, the gathering demonstrates how leftists sought to forge domestic and foreign policies amenable to the narrow public opinion of the McCarthy era. The convention also illuminates the complex character of British Columbia's postwar left and the broader intellectual and political milieu of the early Cold War years in Canada - debates over the prohibition of atomic weapons and the relationship between markets and the state that would culminate in the ccf's Winnipeg Declaration of Principles later in the 1950s. Finally, the Vancouver convention highlights the role of Trotskyists within the ccf, a strategy of 'entryism' that has been explored only peripherally in the historiography of social democracy in Canada. The ideological confrontation at Vancouver left the ccf squarely in the hands of 'moderates,' shaping ccf strategy and policy for its final decade of political activity, while muting the Canadian left's independent voice in domestic and international affairs. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f51060221077515u/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=2<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f51060221077515u/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=2> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f51060221077515u/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.465 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n7170041pm6310x6/> War's Long Shadow: Masculinity, Medicine, and the Gendered Politics of Trauma, 1914-1939 Mark Humphries Abstract: War is an inherently traumatizing experience, and during the First World War more than 15,000 Canadian soldiers were diagnosed with some form of war-related psychological wounds. Many more went unrecognized. Yet the very act of seeking an escape from the battlefield or applying for a postwar pension for psychological traumas transgressed masculine norms that required men to be aggressive, self-reliant, and un-emotional. Using newly available archival records, contemporary medical periodicals, doctors' notes, and patient interview transcripts, this paper examines two crises that arose from this conflict between idealized masculinity and the emotional reality of war trauma. The first came on the battlefield in 1916 when, in some cases, almost half the soldiers evacuated from the front were said to be suffering from emotional breakdowns. The second came later, during the Great Depression, when a significant number of veterans began to seek compensation for their psychological injuries. In both crises, doctors working in the service of the state constructed trauma as evidence of deviance, in order to parry a larger challenge to masculine ideals. In creating this link between war trauma and deviance, they reinforced a residual conception of welfare that used tests of morals and means to determine who was deserving or undeserving of state assistance. At a time when the Canadian welfare state was being transformed in response to the needs of veterans and their families, doctors' denial that 'real men' could legitimately exhibit psychosomatic symptoms in combat meant that thousands of legitimately traumatized veterans were left uncompensated by the state and were constructed as inferior, feminized men. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n7170041pm6310x6/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=3<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n7170041pm6310x6/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=3> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n7170041pm6310x6/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.503 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n145532nv3226126/> CHR Forum Eric W. Sager, Peter Allan Baskerville http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n145532nv3226126/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=4<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n145532nv3226126/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=4> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n145532nv3226126/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.533 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g3154t7162117515/> Reviews http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g3154t7162117515/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=5<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g3154t7162117515/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=5> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g3154t7162117515/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.553 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q41287623185mq70/> Recent Publications Relating to Canada Michael D. Stevenson http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q41287623185mq70/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc b9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=6<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q41287623185mq70/?p=13176b68f0ef4dc%0Ab9d51dbdd4e3ed030&pi=6> DOI: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q41287623185mq70/> 10.3138/chr.91.3.597 __________________________________________ The Canadian Historical Review CHR was launched in 1920 as a continuation of the Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, whose first volume appeared in 1897 and covered books published in 1896 and 1895. One of the earliest essays in the Review is a scathing reading of William Kingsford's The History of Canada, Volume VIII, documenting the fact that careless scholarship and questionable writing skills existed even in those days. Early CHR articles are equally interesting, with titles such as "The Growth of Canadian National Feeling" (W.S. Wallace), "A Plea for a Canadian National Library" (Lawrence J. 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For more information on CHR or for submissions information, please contact Canadian Historical Review University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 Fax Toll Free in North America 1-800-221-9985 email: journals@utpress.utoronto.ca www.utpjournals.com/chr UTP Journals on Facebook www.facebook.com/utpjournals and Twitter www.twitter.com/utpjournals Join us for advance notice of tables of contents of forthcoming issues, author and editor commentaries and insights, calls for papers and advice on publishing in our journals. Become a fan and receive free access to articles weekly through UTPJournals focus. Posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals
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