Canadian Controversies
Bryan Palmer looks at how language, geography, regionalism, class and gender are interacting to make for interesting times in Canada's historiography.
Canada is a large country geographically, a. diverse collage of political economies, peoples, cultures, regions and histories. Difference is the bedrock of being Canadian, linguistically ordered in the founding 'nations' – aboriginal, French, and English – and reproduced in regional dialects and the material environment, where topography and climate mark east from west, north from south, and prairie from Laurentian shield.