Annotated Bibliography: Canada Since Confederation, History 102W

This assignment is an annotated bibliography focusing on Canadian history since Confederation, particularly examining themes of colonialism. The student has analyzed two sources: Robert W. Dimand's paper on the role of social scientists in shaping public policy, and Tricia Logan's article on settler colonialism and the Metis. Dimand's paper highlights the influence of social scientists as advisors and decision-makers, while Logan's article explores the experiences of the Metis in the context of colonialism. The bibliography provides summaries of each source, discussing their strengths and weaknesses and their relevance to the broader topic of Canadian history. The assignment aims to prepare the student for a research paper on the ongoing story of colonialism in Canada, encouraging critical engagement with historical debates and the development of a thesis.

Running Head: CANADA SINCE CONFEDERATION
Canada since Confederation
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Annotated Bibliography
Dimand, Robert W. "Canada 150: Canadian social scientists and the making of public policy since
confederation." Canadian Public Policy 43, no. 4 (2017): 376-390.
This paper deals with the focus that the social scientists of Canada had during the 1890s.
The social scientists during that period in Canada were quite significant as decision makers, they
are also advisers to the government and they gave out their suggestion through the reports of the
Royal Commission. These scientists operated at both the federal as well at the provincial levels.
The social scientists shaped most of the public discourse because of the influential position that
they had. The Canadian public policy started taking shape one year before the Rebellion of 1837.
The social scientists were the most influential during this period, they are the once who formed
the policies of the government.
The strength of this paper is that it is very thoroughly researched and a lot of documents
have been referred and this research mostly deals with the work that social scientists have done
since the confederation. The historical data that have been used has all been referenced properly
and numerous references were used while doing the research. The weakness of this paper is that
it has limited its research to the role that the social scientists played during that period. Social
scientists were not the only influencers who worked with public policy and helped shape
government rules and regulations. There were others who influenced the making of the public
policies in Canada and these are mentioned by the study. In order for the study to be complete, it
had to talk about the policy makers of the country of Canada.

2CANADA SINCE CONFEDERATION
Logan, Tricia. "Settler colonialism in Canada and the Métis." Journal of Genocide Research 17, no.
4 (2015): 433-452.
This article deals with the problems and the experiences that settlers during the colonial
period faced in Canada. This article points out that while talking about the experiences of the
settlers one need to make sure that the experiences that each of the settlers have remain unique to
them and their experienced should not be homogenized. This paper focuses on the experience of
the group of people known as Metis. This group was many a times considered as ‘half breeds’ by
the people of the newly formed Canadian state. This group was discouraged and they were
discarded by the people that were a majority in Canada. These racial gaps reached a significant
point in Canada, when these smaller groups faced genocide. Metis also faced similar
consequences.
The strength of this paper is that points out the because of colonialism, there were racist
behavior that were visible among the groups in Canada. A lot of new settlements took place
during that period. This article points out that every group had went through some horrible
experience and each of their experience is different from the others. The groups went through a
lot bad experience during this time and this paper focused on the experience of the group called
Metis. The weakness of this paper is that it focuses on the experiences of the Metis, however
there were a quite few groups who went through similar situations but their experiences are left
out. The article should have talked about the experiences of the new settlers in general.

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References
Dimand, Robert W. "Canada 150: Canadian social scientists and the making of public policy
since confederation." Canadian Public Policy 43, no. 4 (2017): 376-390.
Logan, Tricia. "Settler colonialism in Canada and the Métis." Journal of Genocide Research 17,
no. 4 (2015): 433-452.