Re-branding Canada: The Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1945-1974

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dc.contributor.authorBlanding, Lee
dc.contributor.supervisorBryden, Penny
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-12T21:12:49Z
dc.date.available2014-05-25T11:22:05Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-08-12
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractCanadian multiculturalism policy is often said to have come about in 1971 because of factors such as the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the multicultural movement of the 1960s, or the more liberal political and social climate of the postwar period. While all of these played roles in the emergence of “multiculturalism within a bilingual framework,” this dissertation takes the approach that the federal civil service was the most important factor behind the adoption of a federal multiculturalism policy in Canada. The author makes the case that the Canadian state had adopted multiculturalism policy and programs as early as the 1950s. A small branch of Government, known as the Canadian Citizenship Branch sought to integrate members of ethnic minority communities into the mainstream of Canadian life, but also sought to reassure native-born Canadians that these “New Canadians” had vital contributions to make to Canadian culture. This dissertation shows how this state discourse intersected with the more familiar elements associated with the rise of multiculturalism, such as the multicultural movement, and ultimately coalesced in 1971 with the announcement by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau of a “new” state multiculturalism policy.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0334en_US
dc.description.proquestemailblanding@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4736
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectethnicen_US
dc.subjectethnicityen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectCanadianen_US
dc.subjectCanadian multiculturalism policyen_US
dc.subjectbilingualism and biculturalismen_US
dc.subjectbureaucracyen_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subjectmulticultural movementen_US
dc.subjectmulticulturalismen_US
dc.subjectmulticulturalism movementen_US
dc.subjectmulticulturalism policyen_US
dc.subjectPaul Yuzyken_US
dc.subjectPierre Trudeauen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjectRoyal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalismen_US
dc.subjectUkrainiansen_US
dc.subjectethnic groupsen_US
dc.titleRe-branding Canada: The Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1945-1974en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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