Raymond B Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 5682791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond B Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond B |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It is always about freedom
Freedom, in its many forms, has been a fundamental tenet of the political discourse of Canadian prime ministers, of their construction of the national identity, and of the creation of a national narrative for decades. This article examines how, since the Second World War, prime ministers have deployed the rhetoric of freedom and contributed to that discourse on freedom even as what it meant changed with new circumstances and new situations. What …
Locating the Right in Canadian Political History
Readers of the American Review of Canadian Studies are no strangers to the study of the impact of the political right in Canadian politics.1 Scholars in the Canadian academic community have long fo
From Left to Right
Canada and Ireland
"Canada and Ireland: A Political and Diplomatic History. Philip J. Currie." Canadian Historical Review, 102(2), pp. 350–351
William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Role in the Reconstruction of National Identity
All nations construct national identities that are important, though often ambiguous and sometimes conflicted. Ideas and policies that become part of the national identity are never fixed. They are subject to ever-changing contexts in the search for national well-being and new ways to sustain established political communities and accommodate new ones. At Confederation and in the decades that followed, the national narrative, and, by extension, th…
Citizenship, National Identity, and the Search for Stability in Canada
When Canada was created it debated if it was best to seek political solidarity by creating a single political identity or was it wiser to build a citizenship that made space for all communities. This article argues there was no attempt to unite Canadians around a single national loyalty but only to join an array of diverse communities whose members might adopt a shared citizenship. Since 1867, Canada has adopted different approaches to creating c…
Where Once They Stood
Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent, ignorant, and gullible. Raymond Blake and Melvin Baker demonstrate that, in fact, voters fully understood the issues at stake in both cases, and in 1…
Kurt Korneski. Conflicted Colony
The broad outlines of the history of nineteenth-century Newfoundland and Labrador and the North Atlantic world, of which Kurt Korneski writes so well, are generally well known. What distinguishes Korneski’s book from the earlier historiography, which was essentially preoccupied with constitutionalism and diplomacy, is his innovative approach, which effectively weaves many of the new approaches to the study of the past into a masterful analytical …
Fishing for a Solution
Reviewed by: Raymond B. Blake, University of ReginaA former professor and colleague at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick regularly asked students in his diplomatic history course to trace the smell of fish through the history of Canada's foreign relations. His was a historical approach to Canada's diplomatic history, and I suspect that in many Canadian universities where the history of Canada's foreign relations is still taught, fish get …
Politics and the Federal Principle in Canada
The maintenance of Canadian federalism, and Canada itself, depends on workable relationships between its constituent parts that are able to secure political agreement through accommodation. This argument is developed by examining the dispute between Newfoundland and Ottawa over the control of offshore oil and gas from the late 1950s to 1985, which also became a subtext for the pursuit of economic security, justice, and equality for the province. …
A new Canadian dynamism? From multiculturalism and diversity to history and core values
This article examines how Canada's new citizenship study guide might be considered a fundamental shift in Canadian citizenship from one emphasising multiculturalism, rights and diversity to one that encourages the integration of newcomers into Canadian society. It contends that the new approach to Canadian citizenship is part of a wider integrationist agenda sweeping much of Europe and settler-countries such as the United States and Australia. Wh…
From Rights to Needs
Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt
Introduction I: Beginnings Chapter 1 Saving for a Rainy Day: Social Security in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Canada Dennis T. Guest Chapter 2 Blood on the Factory Floor: Workers' Compensation Movement in Canada and the United States Robert H. Babcock Chapter 3 the Interests of the Children: Mothers' Allowances and the Origins of Income Security in Ontario, 1917-1930 James Struthers Chapter 4 Scandal and Social Policy: Ideal…
From Fishermen to Fish
Canadians at Last
By beginning with the 1949 Confederation rather than the activities leading up to it, and by thoroughly documenting areas of agreement, contention, and neglect, Blake writes a solid, contemporary history of Newfoundland's integration into Canada.
An Old Problem in a New Province
S. H. Foulkes Essay Prize
A new Canadian dynamism? From multiculturalism and diversity to history and core values
This article examines how Canada's new citizenship study guide might be considered a fundamental shift in Canadian citizenship from one emphasising multiculturalism, rights and diversity to one that encourages the integration of newcomers into Canadian society. It contends that the new approach to Canadian citizenship is part of a wider integrationist agenda sweeping much of Europe and settler-countries such as the United States and Australia. Wh…
Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt
Introduction I: Beginnings Chapter 1 Saving for a Rainy Day: Social Security in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Canada Dennis T. Guest Chapter 2 Blood on the Factory Floor: Workers' Compensation Movement in Canada and the United States Robert H. Babcock Chapter 3 the Interests of the Children: Mothers' Allowances and the Origins of Income Security in Ontario, 1917-1930 James Struthers Chapter 4 Scandal and Social Policy: Ideal…
S. H. Foulkes Essay Prize
An Old Problem in a New Province
Canadians at Last
By beginning with the 1949 Confederation rather than the activities leading up to it, and by thoroughly documenting areas of agreement, contention, and neglect, Blake writes a solid, contemporary history of Newfoundland's integration into Canada.
From Fishermen to Fish
Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt
Introduction I: Beginnings Chapter 1 Saving for a Rainy Day: Social Security in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Canada Dennis T. Guest Chapter 2 Blood on the Factory Floor: Workers' Compensation Movement in Canada and the United States Robert H. Babcock Chapter 3 the Interests of the Children: Mothers' Allowances and the Origins of Income Security in Ontario, 1917-1930 James Struthers Chapter 4 Scandal and Social Policy: Ideal…
From Rights to Needs
A new Canadian dynamism? From multiculturalism and diversity to history and core values
This article examines how Canada's new citizenship study guide might be considered a fundamental shift in Canadian citizenship from one emphasising multiculturalism, rights and diversity to one that encourages the integration of newcomers into Canadian society. It contends that the new approach to Canadian citizenship is part of a wider integrationist agenda sweeping much of Europe and settler-countries such as the United States and Australia. Wh…
Politics and the Federal Principle in Canada
The maintenance of Canadian federalism, and Canada itself, depends on workable relationships between its constituent parts that are able to secure political agreement through accommodation. This argument is developed by examining the dispute between Newfoundland and Ottawa over the control of offshore oil and gas from the late 1950s to 1985, which also became a subtext for the pursuit of economic security, justice, and equality for the province. …
Fishing for a Solution
Reviewed by: Raymond B. Blake, University of ReginaA former professor and colleague at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick regularly asked students in his diplomatic history course to trace the smell of fish through the history of Canada's foreign relations. His was a historical approach to Canada's diplomatic history, and I suspect that in many Canadian universities where the history of Canada's foreign relations is still taught, fish get …
Kurt Korneski. Conflicted Colony
The broad outlines of the history of nineteenth-century Newfoundland and Labrador and the North Atlantic world, of which Kurt Korneski writes so well, are generally well known. What distinguishes Korneski’s book from the earlier historiography, which was essentially preoccupied with constitutionalism and diplomacy, is his innovative approach, which effectively weaves many of the new approaches to the study of the past into a masterful analytical …
Where Once They Stood
Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent, ignorant, and gullible. Raymond Blake and Melvin Baker demonstrate that, in fact, voters fully understood the issues at stake in both cases, and in 1…
William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Role in the Reconstruction of National Identity
All nations construct national identities that are important, though often ambiguous and sometimes conflicted. Ideas and policies that become part of the national identity are never fixed. They are subject to ever-changing contexts in the search for national well-being and new ways to sustain established political communities and accommodate new ones. At Confederation and in the decades that followed, the national narrative, and, by extension, th…
Citizenship, National Identity, and the Search for Stability in Canada
When Canada was created it debated if it was best to seek political solidarity by creating a single political identity or was it wiser to build a citizenship that made space for all communities. This article argues there was no attempt to unite Canadians around a single national loyalty but only to join an array of diverse communities whose members might adopt a shared citizenship. Since 1867, Canada has adopted different approaches to creating c…
Canada and Ireland
"Canada and Ireland: A Political and Diplomatic History. Philip J. Currie." Canadian Historical Review, 102(2), pp. 350–351
From Left to Right
Locating the Right in Canadian Political History
Readers of the American Review of Canadian Studies are no strangers to the study of the impact of the political right in Canadian politics.1 Scholars in the Canadian academic community have long fo
It is always about freedom
Freedom, in its many forms, has been a fundamental tenet of the political discourse of Canadian prime ministers, of their construction of the national identity, and of the creation of a national narrative for decades. This article examines how, since the Second World War, prime ministers have deployed the rhetoric of freedom and contributed to that discourse on freedom even as what it meant changed with new circumstances and new situations. What …
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