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Canadian Law Between the Wars

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2023
Examined through a legal prism, Canada is an officially bilingual federal state with a bi-juridical legal system based, for the most part, on the traditions of British common law as it has evolved over the years.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Fascism in Quebec during the Second World War

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2023
My doctoral dissertation on anti-Semitism and extreme right-wing nationalism in 1929–39 Quebec proved to be a thread that, once pulled, would reveal other aspects of Quebec history that had also been hidden in plain sight.
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The ‘Nation in Arms’, ‘Attempted Rearmament’ and the ‘Brigade of Guards’, 1936–1939

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2023
This article is an enquiry into the voluntary and part-time nature, as well as the Britishness, of the Canadian militia, especially the Non-Permanent Active Militia (NPAM), in an interwar ‘nation-in-arms’.
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Maine’s Mode of Privateering: A Tale of Fraud and Collusion in the Northeast Borderlands, 1812–1815

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2021
The American declaration of war passed by Congress in June 1812 was followed by a prize act which authorised the issuing of Letters of marque. These commissions or licenses allowed American citizens to fit out privately armed vessels to seize British ...
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‘Keen to Foul Their Own Nests’: Contemporary and Historical Criticism of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence of 1940

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2022
On 17 August 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt met with Canada’s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in the town of Ogdensburg, which lies just across the Canadian border in upstate New York. There the two leaders agreed on the formation of the
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Mackenzie King and the North Atlantic Triangle in the Era of Munich, 1938–1939

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2022
This article looks at relations between Britain, the United States and Canada in the years leading up to the Second World War in order to ascertain the extent to which a North Atlantic Triangle can be said to have existed at the outbreak of war in ...
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Introduction: The North Atlantic Triangle: ‘For and Against?’

The London Journal of Canadian Studies
This introduction provides some necessary background to the origins of John Bartlet Brebner’s North Atlantic Triangle: The Interplay of Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, published in 1945, which is the subject of this special issue of ...
Lara Silver
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The Quebec Election of April 2014: Initial Impressions

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2017
The outcome of the 7 April 2014 general election in Quebec proved to be a surprise to many observers. Voters across Quebec chose to support a pro-federalist, Liberal Party majority government, led by Philippe Couillard.
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David Parish, Alexander Baring and the US Loan of 1813: The Role of Nationality and Patriotism in the Transatlantic Mercantile Community in Times of War

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2021
The War of 1812 was a very expensive conflict for the United States. In 1813, three foreign-born investors, among them David Parish from Hamburg, Germany, saved the US government from bankruptcy by providing a sixteen-million dollar loan.
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Pink, Cirque and the Québécisation de l’industrie

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2017
On 31 January 2010, during the broadcast of the 52nd Grammy awards, the multiple-prize-winning vocal artist Pink offered a performance of the hit single Glitter in the Air that stunned many viewers.
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