Spring 2024: 40th Anniversary Special Issue

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Forty years ago, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies opened at York University. Since then, much has changed in the country, in the University, and at the Robarts Centre. In this, the first of two issues of Canada Watch focused on those 40 years, we invited contributions from York scholars, staff, visitors to the Centre, and former students who were part of this process. President emeritus Ian Macdonald’s article describes the origins of the Centre and the reasons behind the first focus on the existential “Canada–Québec” question that preoccupied the country during the 1980s. This subject continues in three contemporary essays looking back at that period.

Published: 2024-04-19

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  • Guest editor’s introduction: The early years

    Lorna Marsden
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/6phcmv09

  • The road to the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University

    Ian McDonald
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/975mrp21

  • John Robarts: True to his own vision of Canada

    Kenneth McRoberts
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/180k9w08

  • Parallel lives: The Québec – Canada estrangement in retrospect

    Roberto Perin
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/qkdvaa82

  • Forty years after the Charter: How routine use of the notwithstanding clause is transforming minority rights in Québec

    Emily Laxer
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/8mtwn458

  • What triumph? Whose cinema?

    Seth Feldman
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/fnpmj104

  • The future of Canadian art history and visual culture at York University

    Anna Hudson
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/trnqf737

  • The graduate student experience at the Robarts Centre

    Marc Froese
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/fhkwmc42

  • Notes on Canada from Mexico

    María Cecilia Costero Garbarino
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/s378xn18

  • Women in Latin America

    Laura McDonald
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/renwbj37

  • Changes in trade flows between Canada and Mexico: An orchestrated evolution

    Claudia De Fuentes
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/x2r37471

  • Reflections from the coordinator

    Laura Taman
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/k9m6v961

  • Entering the new millennium: Reflections on the research strategy at York University

    Stan M. Shapson
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/n10vfq46

  • The challenging times for Canadian Studies

    Colin Coates
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/he2nm166

  • The Robarts Centre today and tomorrow: From the quest for self- knowledge to an ethics of care

    Jean Michel Montsion
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/b20j0898

  • John Robarts, prime minister of Ontario, 1961 – 1971

    Steve Paikin
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/cxpg9a66