A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home

Author: Pat Sandiford Grygier

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1997-03-27

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780773516373

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A comprehensive account of the tuberculosis epidemic among the Inuit in the mid-part of the century. The Inuit were victims not only of the epidemic but also of the Canadian government's shockingly slow response and lack of concern for their culture. Grygier's focus is on patients' experiences and the programs set up to deal with the epidemic, rather than on a purely medical discussion of the disease and treatment. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Moved by the State
Moved by the State

Author: Tina Loo

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0774861037

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“Why don’t they just move?” This reductive question is asked whenever reports surface of the all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities in Canada’s rural and urban communities. But why are certain people and places vulnerable? And who is responsible for a remedy? From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people, often against their will, in order to improve their lives. Moved by the State offers a completely new interpretation of this undertaking, seeing it as part of a larger project of development and focusing on the bureaucrats and academics who designed, implemented, and monitored the relocations rather than on those who were uprooted. In this finely crafted history, Tina Loo explores the contradiction between intention and consequence as diverse communities across Canada were resettled. In the process, she reveals the optimistic belief underpinning postwar relocations: the power of the interventionist state to do good.