Gregory P. Marchildon & Klaartje Schrijvers, “Physician Resistance and the Forging of Public Healthcare: A Comparative Analysis of the Doctors’ Strikes in Canada and Belgium in the 1960s” Medical History 55:203-222 (2011). In their carefully researched article on mid-century health care reforms in Canada and Belgium, Marchildon and Schrijvers convincingly demonstrate how much the tools

Bradley Miller. ‘A carnival of crime on our border’: International Law, Imperial Power, and Extradition in Canada, 1865-1883,” Canadian Historical Review vol. 90 no. 4 (December 2009). In a carefully argued and meticulously researched study of the origins of Canada’s extradition law in the early years of Confederation, Bradley Miller showcases some of the important

Peter Price. “Fashioning a Constitutional Narrative: John S. Ewart and the Development of a ‘Canadian Constitution’”. Canadian Historical Review : 93.3 (2012). In a cogently argued and well-written article, Peter Price analyses lawyer John S. Ewart’s efforts to craft and popularize a constitutional narrative supporting an independent Canadian nationalism. Price demonstrates the importance of competing constitutional narratives

Sean Mills, “Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974” (Histoire sociale / Social History,94.3, September 2013) In a thoughtful and well-written article, Sean Mills examines the controversy caused by the threatened deportation of several hundred Haitians from Quebec in 1974.  Drawing upon a rich and diverse set of primary sources, Mills takes a fresh look at

Lisa Pasolli, “‘I ask you, Mr. Mitchell, is the emergency over?’ Debating Day Nurseries in the Second World War,” Canadian Historical Review 96, 1 (March 2015): 1-31.  This is a first-rate piece of revisionist scholarship. Well researched and well written, it reframes the daycare debate in Canada, away from mobilization during the Second World War and the

Eric M. Adams & Jordan Stanger-Ross, « Promises of Law: The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians ». Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 54:3 (Spring 2017). Through a close reading of administrative, political, and legal documents and the representations of Japanese Canadians, the authors explain why in the 1947 case of Nakashima v. Canada the Exchequer Court of Canada failed to

Jacqueline Briggs. “Exemplary Punishment: T.R.L. MacInnes, the Department of Indian Affairs, and Indigenous Executions, 1936-52,” Canadian Historical Review 100, no. 3, (September 2019): 398-438. Using T.R.E. MacInnes, an official in the Department of Indian Affairs as a focus, this well-written and methodologically sophisticated analysis draws on decolonisation theory, criminology, and extensive research in departmental files to critically

Daniel Manulak, “’An African Representative’: Canada, the Third World, and South African Apartheid, 1984-1990,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History  (June 2021), 1-32. This first-rate example of international history uses interviews with some of the key actors and archival sources from three continents to show “the efforts of the African ‘Frontline States’ to enlist the diplomatic