Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75 Book

List of Illustrations     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Abbreviations     x
Introduction   Magda Fahrni   Robert Rutherdale     1
Imagining Postwar Communities
Constructing the "Eskimo" Wife: White Women's Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940-60   Joan Sangster     23
The Intellectual Origins of the October Crisis   Eric Bedard     45
Acadian New Brunswick's Ambivalent Leap into the Canadian Liberal Order   Joel Belliveau     61
The "Narcissism of Small Differences": The Invention of Canadian English, 1951-67   Steven High     89
From Liberalism to Nationalism: Peter C. Newman's Discovery of Canada   Robert Wright     111
Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Bilateral Free Trade: Competing Visions of Canadian Economic and Trade Policy, 1945-70   Dimitry Anastakis     137
Selling by the Carload: The Early Years of Fast Food in Canada   Steve Penfold     162
Diversity and Dissent
Leisure, Consumption, and the Public Sphere: Postwar Debates over Shopping Regulations in Vancouver and Victoria during the Cold War   Michael Dawson     193
Men Behind the Marquee: Greasing the Wheels of Vansterdam's Professional Striptease Scene, 1950-75   Becki L. Ross     217
New "Faces" for Fathers: Memory, Life-Writing, and Fathers as Providers in the Postwar Consumer Era   Robert Rutherdale     241
"We Adopted a Negro": Interracial Adoption and the Hybrid Baby in 1960s Canada   Karen Dubinsky     268
"Chastity Outmoded!": The Ubyssey, Sex, and the Single Girl, 1960-70   Christabelle Sethna     289
Law versus Medicine: The Debate over Drug Use in the 1960s   Marcel Martel     315
Contributors     334
Index     336