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and Canadian identity,
148–49

on conscription (World War I),
92

defeat Diefenbaker,
141

on trade reciprocity (1911),
84

Macdonald, John A.,
20
,
36
,
59
,
73
,
163
,
166
,
168

Macdonnell, Jim,
96
,
122
,
128

MacMillan, Ernest,
106

Manitoba,
43
,
44
,
159
,
160
,
162

schools crisis (1890),
60–61

See also
Winnipeg

Massey, Lionel,
130

Massey, Vincent,
75
,
100
,
102
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
137
,
140

marriage,
94

Mazzoleni, Ettore,
106

McMaster University,
140

medicare,
13
,
147
,
148

Metis,
44
,
59
,
148
,
162
,
163
,
176

on transcontinental expedition,
38–41
,
46–47
,
50
,
51
,
56
,
57
,
111

See also
Aboriginal peoples

Milner, Lord Alfred,
77–78
,
79

Moberly, Walter,
51–52

Moore, Kay,
132
,
135

multiculturalism,
6–7
,
166

national anthem,
3
,
149

French and English versions of,
16–17

parodies of patriotism and,
8–9

sense of citizenship,
4

at Vimy monument,
115

national energy strategy,
168

national heritage sites,
157–58
,
159
,
160

New Brunswick,
76

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
134

Northwest Passage,
170

Nova Scotia,
33
,
35–36

nuclear weapons,
133
,
141

Ocean to Ocean
(GMG),
21
,
25
,
36–37
,
111

national vision of,
170
,
171

publication of,
55–56

Riel’s absence from,
44

oil,
168

Ojibwa peoples,
39–41
,
43
,
47
,
159

Orangemen,
44
,
59
,
93

Ottawa,
28
,
86
,
143

Otter Lake,
24
,
108

Oxford,
22
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
121
,
136

Oxford and Bermondsey Club,
125
,
126

Oxford English Dictionary,
63–64

Parkin, Alice (Massey) (Aunt Lal),
80
,
94
,
122
,
127–28
,
129

Parkin, George R. (great-grandfather),
74
,
87
,
99
,
121

death of,
108

on imperialism,
78–80

visit to South Africa,
24
,
80
,
152

Parkin, Marjorie (Macdonnell),
80
,
96

Parkin, Raleigh,
80
,
90
,
94

Parkin and Grant family heritage,
138

patriotism

contested emotion,
5

of family tradition,
14
,
18
,
122
,
139
,
142

nationalism as false,
109

parodies of,
8–9

of successful societies,
176

truth in morality of,
10

of war,
88

peace, order and good government,
55
,
174

Pearson, Lester “Mike,”
123
,
128
,
129
,
134
,
140
,
141
,
142
,
143

Pickersgill, Frank,
135–36

prairie churches,
160–61

prairie grass museum,
159

Presbyterianism,
20
,
34
,
45
,
48
,
56
,
66
,
139

Prince Arthur Avenue,
24
,
132
,
152

Protestantism,
44
,
59–60
,
60–61
,
64
,
110
,
140
,
165

provincial parks,
158

provincial relations,
167

Quebec

and Boer War,
69–70

hydroelectric power of,
169

identity,
148

on the railway,
60

Riel,
59

on trade reciprocity (1911),
84

vision of Canada,
112

Québécois,
15–16
,
92–93

See also
French Canadians

Queen’s University (Kingston),
20
,
23
,
56–57
,
73
,
82
,
85–86
,
119

Quiet Revolution,
148
,
169

railway, transcontinental,
111
,
138
,
170

building of,
20
,
56–58

east–west linkages of,
62
,
167–68

effect of,
59–60
,
161–62

last spike,
56
,
58–59
,
165

See also
transcontinental crossing

Red River carts,
41
,
45
,
159

Rhodes, Cecil and scholarship,
67
,
74
,
76
,
78–79
,
80

George Ignatieff,
123
,
143

Riel, Louis,
43–44
,
59
,
163

right to bear arms,
12
,
147

Ritchie, Charles,
123
,
140

Roe v. Wade,
151

Rogers Pass and A.B. Rogers,
57–58

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
120–21
,
124

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
151

Royal Colonial Institute,
86
,
88–89

Royal Society of Canada,
151

St. Andrew’s College (near Toronto),
74
,
75
,
92

St. Boniface,
43–44
,
61

St. Laurent, Louis,
141

Saskatchewan,
48
,
159–62
,
162–63

Sioux peoples,
40
,
47–48

smallpox,
48
,
53

Smith, Donald Alexander (Lord Strathcona),
45
,
58–59
,
68–69
,
166

South Africa,
65–70
,
78
,
79

Statute of Westminster (1931),
102

Taché, Alexandre-Antonin (Archbishop of St. Boniface),
44–45

technology,
26
,
64
,
175

nuclear weapons,
133

resistance to,
27
,
138
,
142
,
144
,
146

Thunder Bay (Port Arthur),
38

Trans-Canada Highway,
42
,
159
,
167

transcontinental crossing,
20
,
37–55

effect on Aboriginals,
40–41
,
46
,
48–50
,
53

expedition members,
38–39

Fleming’s idea,
36

Ignatieff retraces,
157–65

route of,
37–38
,
50
,
54–55

See also
Ocean to Ocean
(GMG)

Turner, R.E.W.,
102

United Nations,
134

United States

Canada compared to,
11–13
,
55

Canada’s influence on,
124

Canada’s relationship with,
21
,
147–48
,
168–70
,
172

Grant-Parkin opinions of,
144–45

imperialism of,
133

influence on Canada,
141

trade with Canada,
21
,
84
,
149
,
167

as victor of WWII,
140

University of Toronto,
146

Upper Canada College (Toronto),
23–24
,
119

George Parkin,
74
,
108

Vancouver,
54

Victoria,
55

Weil, Simone,
139

Weizmann, Chaim,
81

West Edmonton Mall,
163

Willison, John,
108

Winnipeg,
159
,
162

Fort Garry,
42
,
43
,
44
,
47

Workers’ Educational Association (WEA),
77
,
105

World War I,
22
,
27
,
87–88
,
90–99
,
94–99

and British Empire,
90
,
101–2

conscription,
92

Somme,
22
,
94
,
122
,
171

Vimy,
101
,
103–4
,
106
,
115
,
171

Vimy monument,
112–15

World War II,
22

bombing of London,
125–27
,
128–29
,
134

Canadians defending Britain,
123–24

invasion of Russia,
130

Pearl Harbor,
131

U.S. as victor of,
140

Yellowhead Pass,
52
,
56
,
159
,
164

Yellow Quill reservation,
14