UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HISTORY 325 CANADIAN SOCIAL HISTORY TO WWI FALL 2014

UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HISTORY 325 CANADIAN SOCIAL HISTORY TO WWI FALL 2014 (“Toboggan or Indian Sleigh on which they draw their provisio...
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UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HISTORY 325 CANADIAN SOCIAL HISTORY TO WWI FALL 2014

(“Toboggan or Indian Sleigh on which they draw their provisions on their Journeys – Indian from Lorreto – Habitant and Winter Sleigh”, ca 1837 Peter Winkworth Collection – Library and Archives of Canada)

Room: Time:

MH 417 Tuesday/Thursday 11:30-12:45

Course Director: Office: Office Phone: Email: Office Hours:

James E. Moran Rm. 403 MB 566-0765 [email protected] Tuesdays 10:00-11:00 Wednesdays 11:30-12:30

Students are encouraged to meet with the instructor to discuss issues related to lectures, tutorials, and other course related issues. There are regularly scheduled office hours (see above) when I will be in my office. Appointments can also be made for other times if office hours clash with students’ schedules. Students are also welcome to contact me by email.

Course Description Why would anyone make a study of the day-to-day lives of ordinary people? This course attempts to answer that question, explaining how social history came to become an important way of studying the past. We will do this by exploring selected themes in Canadian social history. Readings for this course examine the social experience of every-day life in ways that offer new insights into the Canadian past. For this section of Canadian Social History, the focus will be on processes that fundamentally shaped peoples lives in the colonial and early post colonial periods leading up to the First World War. These processes include European/First Nations relations, immigration, social and military conflict, religious beliefs and practices, social regulation, class development, and community organisation. Class Meetings and Approach This course combines lecture presentations, audio visual material, group discussions, and student presentations. Each subject examined in the course will comprise of two classes. The first class will consist of a short lecture which puts the theme into general context. The second class will consist of a tutorial discussion of readings as well as presentations relating to the same theme. Students will be expected to read and prepare the readings assigned for each week, and to attend class prepared to discuss the assigned readings. Readings are assigned under each week’s theme heading. All readings are in the following text book which is mandatory for this course: Elizabeth Jane Errington and Cynthia R. Comacchio (eds.), People, Places and Times: Readings in Canadian Social History, Volume One: Pre Confederation (Toronto: Thompson, Nelson Ltd.), 2007.

Grading 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

Tutorial Participation: Tutorial Presentation: Short Essay Document Analysis Prospectus: Introduction, Thesis Statement, Outline, and Bibliography 6) Research Essay November 20

15% 10% 20% 20% 10%

Due September 25 Due October 23 Due November 6 25% Due

COURSE SCHEDULE: 1 - September 4: Introduction: The History of Social History 2 - September 9: And the Europeans Came – Part I Readings Reading # 1: Daniel K. Richter, “Imagining a Distant New World …”, Textbook, pp. 6-22. Reading #2: Olive P. Dickason, “L’Homme Sauvage”, Textbook, pp. 23-39. 3 - September 11: And the Europeans Came – Part II – Primary Documents Document 1.1: Cartier’s First Voyage Document 1.2: Father Baird’s First Letter Home Illustration 1: Trading with the Natives

4 – September 16: Settlers and Society: The Family and Community in New France – Part I - Readings Reading #1 Andre Lachance and Sylvie Savioe, “Violence, Marriage, and Family Honour: Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Marriage in New France” Textbook, pp. 54-72. Reading #2 Kenneth Donovan, “Slaves and Their Owners in Ile Royale, 1713-1760”, Textbook, pp. 73-93. 5- September 18 Settlers and Society: The Family and Community in New France - Part II – Primary Documents Document 2.1 An Anonymous Memorandum on Colonization Document 2.2 Census of New France Document 2.3 Excerpts from Peter Kalm’s Travels in North America 6 – September 23: Women and the Church in New France – Part I - Readings Reading #1 Nancy Shoemaker, “Kateri Tekakwitha’s Tortuous Path to Sainthood” Textbook, pp. 107-121. Reading #2 Jan Noel, “Caste and Clientage in an Eighteenth-Century Quebec Convent”, Textbook, pp. 138. 7 – September 25: Women and the Church in New France – Part II – Primary Docs. Illustration 3.2: St Marguerite Bourgeois Document 3.1: Letters from 1640 and 1668

8 – September 30: War and Society on the Edges of Empire – Part I - Readings Reading #1 Fernand Ouellet, “Militia Officers and Social Structure, 1600-1815”, Textbook pp. 150167. Reading #2 Earle Lockerby, “The Deportation of the Acadians from Ile St.-Jean, 1758”, Textbook, pp. 168-181. 9 – October 2: War and Society on the Edges of Empire – Part II – Primary Documents Document 4.1: Letters to the Honourable Colonel Moncton Document 4.2: Placard from His Excellency General Amherst Document 4.3: Songs of the Siege of Quebec 10 – October 7: Peopling British North America: Immigration – Part I - Readings Reading #1: E. J. Errington , “’Information Wanted’: Women Emigrants in a Trans-Atlantic World”, Textbook, pp. 197-211. Reading #2: “’An Unspeakable Benefit’: White Women in Colonial Society”, Textbook, pp. 212-228 11 – October 9: Peopling British North America: Immigration – Part II – Primary Documents Document #1: Letter from Isabella Miller to Her Brother Document #2: Finding Land and Finding Work Document #3: Information-Wanted Notices

12 – October 14: Work, Family and Community on the Land – Part I - Readings Reading #1: Marilyn Porter, “’She Was the Skipper of the Shore Crew’: Notes on the History of the Sexual Division of Labour in Newfoundland”, Textbook, pp. 242-255. Reading #2: Catharine Anne Wilson, “Reciprocal Work Bees and the Meaning of Neighbourhood”, Textbook, pp. 256-276 13 – October 16: Work, Family and Community on the Land – Part II – Primary Docs. Illustration 6.2: Exploits, a Newfoundland Fishing Village Document 6.1: Excerpts from the 1815 Diary of a Nova Scotia Farm Girl Document 6.2: Excerpts from John Thompson Diary

14 – October 21: Class and Community in the City – Part I - Readings Reading #1: David Sutherland, “Voluntary Societies and the Process of Middle-Class Formation in Early-Victorian Halifax”, Textbook, pp. 293-304. Reading #2: Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton, “The Challenge of the Irish Catholic Community in Nineteenth Century Montreal”, Textbook, pp. 310-325. 15 – October 23: Class and Community in the City – Part II – Primary Documents Document 7.1: Census of British North America Document 7.2: View of Montreal and Quebec at Mid-Century 16 – October 28: Children and Childhood – Part I - Readings Reading #1: “’What if Mama is an Indian?’ The Cultural Ambivalence of the Alexander Ross Family”, Textbook, pp. 339-346. Reading #2: Deborah Stiles, “The Gender and Class Dimensions of a Rural Childhood: Martin Butler in New Brunswick, 1857-1871”, Textbook, pp. 347-358. 17 – October 30: Children and Childhood – Part II – Primary Documents Document 8.1: Reminiscences of an Old Timer Document 8.2: Excerpts from Forest, Shanty and River Life in the Backwoods of Canada Document 8.3: Report of a School Superintendent, 1848 18 – November 4: Regulating Conduct in a Colonial Context - Part I - Readings Reading #1: Sandy Ramos, “’A Most Detestable Crime’: Gender Identities and Sexual Violence in the District of Montreal, 1803-1843”, Textbook, pp. 372-387. Reading #2: Cecilia Morgan, “’In Search of the Phantom Misnamed Honour’: Duelling in Upper Canada, Textbook, pp. 388- 405. 19 – November 6 - Regulating Conduct in a Colonial Context - Part II – Primary Docs. Document 9.1: Susanna Moodie, The Charivari Document 9.2: The treatment of Rumours in Colonial Papers Document 9.3: Report of the Niagara Assizes *** November 11 – Remembrance Day No Class *** 20 – November 13: Church and Charity – Part I - Readings Article #1: Katherine M.J. McKenna, “’The Union between Faith and Good Works’: The Life of Harriet Dobbs Cartwright, 1808-1887”, Textbook, pp. 421-430.

Article #2: Carmen Nielson Varty, “The City and the Ladies: Politics, Religion and Female Benevolence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Hamilton, Canada West”, Textbook, pp. 431-444. 21 – November 18 - Church and Charity – Part II – Primary Documents Document 10.1: Letter from 1834 &1844 Document 10.2: Report of the Meeting of the Toronto House of Industry, 1837 Document 10.3: Records of the Kingston House of Industry 22 – November 20: Public Spaces: Accommodation and Conflict in the Colonies – Part I Readings Reading #1: Julia Roberts, “’A Mixed Assemblage of Persons’: Race and Tavern Space in Upper Canada”, Textbook, pp. 465-482. Reading #2: “Gordon Winder, “Trouble in the North End: The Geography of Social Violence in Saint John, 1840-1860” 23 – November 25: Public Spaces: Accommodation and Conflict in the Colonies – Pt. II Primary Documents Document 11.1: Vignettes of Street and Tavern Life in Perth, Upper Canada Document 11.2: Celebrations of the Coronation Document 11.3: Disturbances in Halifax, 1863

Course Policies: The Classroom Environment: Students are expected to treat each other respectfully and that should be reflected in both conduct and language. Attendance: Class attendance is required. Except for medical or compassionate reasons that are documented, students are expected to attend all classes. Having to work and conflicts with sports team practices are not reasonable excuses for missing classes. Evaluation and the Standard of Work: 1) Student's work will be evaluated on the basis of its content, organization and execution, and quality of writing. 2) Papers which suffer from illegibility or a very poor writing style will be returned to the student for revision. 3) Papers that are inadequately or improperly footnoted, that quote directly from another source without acknowledgment, or that closely paraphrase large expanses of another’s text will be treated as incidents of academic dishonesty. Please talk with me about these issues, early in the term, if you feel uncomfortable concerning what constitutes academic dishonesty. Academic Integrity:

1) Plagiarism is a serious academic offence. Students who deliberately plagiarize the work of others may be subject to the university’s disciplinary procedures and will receive a grade of F in this course. 2) Cheating is not permitted. Students who deliberately cheat may be subject to the university’s disciplinary procedures and will receive a grade of F in this course. 3) Papers submitted for marking which do not adhere to the required topic or time period of the assignment will be returned to the student. The student must then submit a paper that matches the curricula of this course. 4) If it is discovered that a student has submitted a paper that has also been submitted for another course, the student will receive an F for this course grade and disciplinary mechanisms [which may include suspension from the university] may be pursued. 5) If it is discovered that a student submits the work of another - this includes papers that are purchased, taken from the Internet, written by a friend, etc. - the student will receive an F for this course grade and disciplinary mechanisms [which may include suspension from the university] may be pursued. 6) Students should consult section 23 under “Academic Regulations” for an outline of the university’s policies regarding academic dishonesty. Submission of Work: 1) Extensions will be given in some circumstances. Students seeking an extension must discuss their request with the instructor well in advance of the due-date. Papers which do not meet the revised deadline, or papers submitted late without a formal extension, will have marks deducted. 2) Papers must be submitted the day they are due; otherwise, they will be considered late. Students who do not hand their paper to the instructor in person, must have the secretary date and initial the assignment. Weekends count in the calculation of late days. 3) Students must keep a disk copy or photocopy of their assignments. In the event the instructor does not have and/or never received an assignment you believe you have submitted, it is up to you to produce a copy of the original. 4) Note: All components of course work must be completed to receive a passing grade in this course. Students should also consult section 22 under “Academic Regulations” for the university’s policy regarding the completion of course work. Penalties for Late Assignments For each day that the assignment is late two per cent (2%) of the mark for the assignment will be deducted.

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