A quarterly publication presenting original research on topics relating to Canada and the humanities and social sciences. This is the official journal of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. Academic interest.
On April 19,1929, Chief Boatswain's Mate Hubert E. Wilbur and Surfman Orville M. LaGrant, both members of the US. Coast Guard, began a routine patrol of the Niagara River. The patrol, which nearly ended in bloodshed, provoked an international incident...
Dear Colleagues: The time has come to share with you two major events in our journal's evolution. They promise to strengthen both the quality and the reach of ARCS. Editorial Board/Associate Editors: At our meeting in Toronto last year, the ACSUS...
Les Etats-Unis ont Bird et Peary. L'Angleterre posede Franklin et Shackleton. La Norvege chunk Amundsen et Nansen. Ici, au Canada, nous avons Bernier. (1) Joseph Elzear Bernier does not often rank in the annals of Arctic exploration in the company...
[A place] implies an indication of stability. [...]
[S]pace is like the word when it is spoken. [...]
In short, space is a practiced place.
--de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
On the unnumbered page following the opening dedication to his...
By the 1760s, British subjects in North America were familiar with elected assemblies. As their imperial administrators made a concerted effort to control colonial trade and to collect more taxes to pay down a massive war debt that had increased during...
In the summer of 2006, Alberta became the first ever Canadian province to be featured at the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Festival seeks to celebrate cultural diversity and promote awareness...