Canadian Corps

This poster, promoting the The Civilian Conservation Corps, demonstrates the patriarchal views of Canadian society during this time period. Its targeting of the male population, while completely dismissing the female public is evidence of the lack of job roles for women during the 1930’s. The art, depicting a young man holding an axe indicates the great value placed upon unskilled manual labour by the government. This poster is an example of bias in the way that it fails to mention the negative…

Montreal and with French-speaking parents, Omer levesque was inspired to be in the Royal Canadian Air Force ever since he was a little boy. He did not know how to speak English very well so Omer joined the local militia unit and became the lieutenant there. Later joining the RCAF, and on March 31, 1951 he was the very first pilot to shoot down a Korean plane during the Korean war. Omer Levesque and other Canadian forces contribution to the war lead to Canada causing a significant impact. During…

what it truly means to be Canadian. They connect Canada with things like “snow”, “Beavers” and the constant use of “eh”. Yet Canada is much more than what meets the eye, there are many values to being Canadian that other countries may not provided for their citizens. In the video “Canadian, Please” and “He’ll never be a real Canadian,” Andrew Gunadie uses a number of cliches and humour to promote the notion of what it truly means to be Canadian. In the video “Canadian, Please,” Gunadie…

A close examination of the type of national culture produced and promoted by institutions such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the National Film Board of Canada, is guided and defined by a climate of desire to cultivate a national identity that would set Canada’s global image aside from external influence. The vast landscape and great distance between various communities within Canada posed a challenge to uniting the country under one image of nationalism. The establishment of such…

In essence, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the sole piece of legislature which balances equality and liberty, whilst taking into perspective individual rights in opposition to the needs of society. The manner with which the charter is composed upholds the balance of liberty and equality justly; however, in practise the charter is implemented with the neither the honour nor the justice for which the spirit of the law intended. Furthermore, sections one, twenty four, and eight of…

constitution. Also, the charter provided an equal law applying to all Canadians. Not only has it provided equality rights but it created recognition and enforcement of the rights of many minority and disadvantaged groups(Government of Canada,2014). Since these rights were applied to everyone in Canada, it provided less chance of biased laws(unfair treatment) and more equality in the nation. In addition, this event has influenced not just Canadian law but jurisprudence and the drafting of…

Canadian National Railway Company, also named CN, is a modern combined company that merges many middle and small railroad companies, which is the biggest railway company in Canada and the fifth biggest railway company in the North America. Established in 1919 by the Canadian government, the CN company is the first railroad line that links the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It was a state-owned business since its establishment for up to 76 years, and it carried out…

R v. Marshall is a landmark decision regarding Indigenous treaty rights and the right to fish. The single case consisted of two decisions: R v Marshall (No 1) [1999] 3 S.C.R. 456 and R v Marshall (No 2) [1999] 3 S.C.R. 533. The accused in the case, Donald Marshall, was a Mi’Kmaq Indian who was charged with three offences found in the federal fishery regulations: Fishing without a license, selling eels without a license, and fishing during the close season. In the first decision, the Supreme…

preferred immigrants prior to the Great Depression, and the few loopholes that allowed them to immigrate to Canada on special permits were systematically closed as the 1930’s progressed. In the final paragraph of the article the authors’ describe what Canadian government officials considered a success: their resistance of pro-refugees groups until the outbreak of war in September 1939. The thesis of this article is not directly stated,…

article by referring to the political situation of this period. Daschuk asserts that the government refused to “help on the basis of the treaty assistance in crisis” as a strategy for accomplishing their own benefits such as the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The government used starvation and diseases as a tool for the control, assimilation, and elimination of Aboriginals: “[...] while the Indians were starving, in many cases to death, the authorities withheld food that was…