Worth Fighting For
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Worth Fighting For

Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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Worth Fighting For

Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror

About this book

Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important historical tradition of resistance to both war and militarization. This collection brings together the work of sixteen scholars on the history of war resistance. Together they explore resistance to specific wars (including the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, and Vietnam), the ideology and nature of resistance (national, ethical, political, spiritual), and organized activism against militarization (such as cadet training, the Cold War, and nuclear arms).

As the federal government continues to support the commemoration and celebration of Canada's participation in past wars, this collection offers a timely response that explores the complexity of Canada's position in times of war and the role of social movements in challenging the militarization of Canadian society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: War Resistance in Canadian History
  5. 1 “Scruples of Conscience” and the Historic Peace Churches in the War of 1812
  6. 2 A Mixed Blessing: The Pacifist Sects of Upper Canada and Exemption from Militia Duty, 1793–1867
  7. 3 Dissent in Canada against the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902
  8. 4 With Thought and Faith: Henri Bourassa and the First World War
  9. 5 A Better Truth: The Democratic Legacy of Resistance to Conscription, 1917–1921
  10. 6 Challenging Strathcona: The Cadet Training Controversy in English Canada, 1920–1950
  11. 7 “This Thing Is in Our Blood for 400 Years”: Conscientious Objection in the Canadian Historic Peace Churches during the Second World War
  12. 8 Principal Purdie Objects: Canadian Pentecostal Students and Conscription during the Second World War
  13. 9 Margaret Ells Russell, Women Strike for Peace, and the Global Politics of “Intelligent Compassion,” 1961–1965
  14. 10 Bridging and Breaching Cold War Divides: Transnational Peace Building, State Surveillance, and the Voice of Women
  15. 11 Fighting the War at Home: Voice of Women and War Toy Activism in Postwar Canada
  16. 12 Project La Macaza: A Study of Two Canadian Peace Protests in the 1960s
  17. 13 “A Very Major Wheel That Helped Grind the War Down”: The Canadian Anti-Draft Movement, 1966–1973
  18. 14 The Fasting Granny vs. the Trudeau Government: Demanding an End to the Canadian Presence in Vietnam
  19. 15 “A Good Teacher Is a Revolutionary”: Alternative War Perspectives in Toronto Classrooms from the 1960s to the 1990s
  20. 16 Rewriting History : Iraq War Resisters’ Struggle for Asylum in Canada and the Mythology of Vietnam
  21. 17 “There Is Nothing More Inclusive Than O Canada”: New Brunswick’s Elementary School Anthem Debate and the Shadow of Afghanistan
  22. Notes
  23. Author Biographies
  24. Index