Table of Contents

Introduction / Phillip Buckner

1 Imperial Twilight, or When Did the Empire End? / John Darwin

2 Canadian Relations with the United Kingdom at the End of Empire, 1956-73 / John Hilliker and Greg Donaghy

3 “Ready, Aye Ready” No More? Canada, Britain, and the Suez Crisis in the Canadian Press / José E. Igartua

4 The Last Great Royal Tour: Queen Elizabeth’s 1959 Tour to Canada / Phillip Buckner

5 “An Objective of U.S. Foreign Policy since the Founding of the Republic”: The United States and the End of Empire in Canada / Gordon T. Stewart

6 Britain, Europe, and Diefenbaker’s Trade Diversion Proposals, 1957-58 / Tim Rooth

7 Customs Valuations and Other Irritants: The Continuing Decline of Anglo-Canadian Trade in the 1960s / Bruce Muirhead

8 Asleep at the Wheel?: British Motor Vehicle Exports to Canada, 1945-75 / Steve Koerner

9 Britain, Europe, and the “Other Quiet Revolution” in Canada / Andrea Benvenuti and Stuart Ward

10 Nostalgia and National Identity: The History and Social Studies Curriculum of Alberta and Ontario at the End of Empire / George Richardson

11 The Persistence of Britain: The Culture Project in Post-War Canada / Paul Rutherford

12 From Guthrie to Greenberg: Canadian High Culture and the End of Empire / Allan Smith

13 Ontario’s Agenda in Post-Imperial Negotiations, 1949-68 / P.E. Bryden

14 The Last Gasp of Empire: The 1964 Flag Debate Revisited / Gregory A. Johnson

15 “One Flag, One Throne, One Empire”: the IODE, the Great Flag Debate, and the End of Empire / Lorraine Coops

16 More Royal than Canadian?: The Royal Canadian Navy’s Search for Identity, 1910-68 / Marc Milner

17 Technology and Empire: The Ideas of Harold Innis and George P. Grant / R. Douglas Francis

18 Petitioning the Great White Mother: First Nations’ Organizations and Lobbying in London / J.R. (Jim) Miller

Contributors

Index

Promotional Information

This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history – the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire.

About the Author

Phillip Buckner is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Brunswick and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.

Reviews

"A significant contribution to the important fields of modern Canadian history and modern British imperial history." - Jane Samson, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta"