Communication and Regional/Provincial Imperatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14784124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert S Fortner (Drake University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 32-46 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0705-3657 • E-ISSN: 1499-6642 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22230/cjc.1980v6n4a240 |
| OpenAlex | W1557743141 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The role which communications technologies played in the creation of Canadian provincial identities between 1846 and 1914 was a complex one. For one thing, it must certainly be acknowledged that the cultural boundaries identified in Canada would probably have developed regardless of the communications technologies employed during this period. 1 And for another, it must be recognized that there were cultural identities already in the process of formation long before the first telegraph line was opened between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846. 2 But what the development of communications technologies did provide during this period was a catalyst which served to focus much of the debate over the formation of a Canadian national consciousness and the retention of provincial identities. And as important as these technologies were to the formation of the national consciousness, they were equally as crucial to the identification of distinctive provincial and ethnic characteristics. That is to say that the very existence of the technologies seems to have released latent identities within Canadians at both the most general and specific levels. Canadians, using the new technologies to the best advantage wherever possible, identified themselves with the empire, the nation and a specific home, or alternatively, refused to do so while remaining cognizant that such identities were available for appropriation
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Consciousness · Emerging technologies · Empire · Ethnic group · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology
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Report of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations
The Emergence of the Federal Concept in Canada 1839-1845
Essays in Canadian Economic History
The Federal Railway Land Subsidy Policy of Canada
A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Dominion
Ocean to Ocean
Prairie Settlement
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |