Reading log
Ch. 1, Week 2
I’m not sure if you want me to do a full reading log for chapter 1 because I don’t think that there is really a thesis to analyze, or if there were any arguments to talk about because it was really just an introductory chapter meant to tell us what to expect from the text, but I’ll give it a try anyway.
I think that the title of the first chapter, “When was Canada?” is an interesting question to ask because the answer will change depending on who you ask, some people might say “1867 the year of confederation”, or some might say “the mid 1700’s when the British took over”, some might say “the 1600’s when the French first really set up New France” and some might even say “much farther back than even the 1600’s because the Aboriginal population was still very much living and thriving all across Canada even before the first Vikings tried to settle newfoundland.” The point I’m trying to make is that I don’t think that we can really put a date on when Canada happened, all we can do is try and identify the different time periods and various peoples who ruled over Canada during those time periods.
Bibliography
Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian history. [electronic resource] : pre-confederation. n.p.: [S.l. : s.n., 2015?], 2015. Thompson Rivers University Catalog, EBSCOhost (accessed September 13, 2016).