Canada Revisited Summary

The history of the Americas continent is pretty much alike, due to the late discovery of the land by numerous mainly European explorers. The establishment of United States is closely related to the settlement of English and also Spanish settler. Similarly, the history of the country right above America, which is Canada also related to England as well as France. The book I will be comparing with Loewen’s is Canada Revisited by Clark and McKay.
Canada, now known as a multicultural and bilingual nation, was established by the English and French colonization. The two countries came there in sixteenth century and changed the history of that land ever since. Europeans saw the unlimited opportunities and decided to settle to the new land due to the …show more content…
One noticeable factor would be pestilence. When Europeans came to the new land, they also set off one of the largest depopulations in human history by bring European diseases with them. The Natives, without any sort of immunity or antibodies to oversea diseases, perished from epidemic diseases like smallpox, bubonic plague even influenza. Thousands of Native Americans died due to the plague. The population of Native Americans decreased ever since every time some European explorers came to America. In like manner, the book “Canada Revisited” argued that Canada suffered similar events. Prior to European arrival, diseases like smallpox did not exist in that region. Having never been exposed to such diseases, Aboriginal population were profoundly reduced for the next hundreds of years, as Europeans continued to explore new territory and contact with more Native tribes. The harm was unmeasurable, not only to the Aboriginal population, but also on the grounds of their societal development. Therefore, just like what Loewen quotes from a historian named Karen Kupperman in his book which says “one can only speculate what the outcome of the rivalry would have been if the impact of European diseases on the American population had not been so devastating”, the history would be quite different without the tremendous epidemic diseases. …show more content…
Giving considerable thoughts, it is absolutely right since that winners or those who make it till the last second own the power of doing whatever they want without concerns regarding anyone else interfering them. The arrival and following colonization gave Europeans the power of writing their own version of North American history while the Natives who had dwelled in this region way earlier than the Europeans. The Aboriginals would definitely present a quite diverse side of the story. In the Canadian textbook I used in high school, the authors did ignore the aspect of Native people in Canada and still maintained the majority of stories from the regular angles which people read about the most in nowadays history books. Being a large portion of the formation of a nation, the Aboriginals might not be as vital as before the arrival of Europeans, but they still hold their own unique positions on the society. Their sides of the stories mattered, just as how the Europeans’ mattered. When writing about the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Clark and McKay put their main focus on the Europeans. They wrote about how European came to the new land as well as what they brought with them, but it never occurred to them that writing more about what the Natives would think about having strangers from across the ocean to just come to their homes and changed everything upside down. Being said so, it does not mean that