True Patriot Love (19 page)

treaty relationship with,
17

See also
Metis

abortion,
151

Allen, Sheila (wife of GPG),
137
,
150–51

Andrew, Geoffrey,
119

Berlin, Isaiah,
4
,
149

Bermondsey,
125–32
,
134
,
136
,
144

Bickersteth, Burgon,
128
,
137

Boer War,
21
,
65–70
,
77–78

Borden, Robert,
84
,
92

Bourassa, Henri,
69

Britain and British Empire,
26–27
,
102
,
150

after World War II,
140

and the Boer War,
67–70
,
77–78

Canada as dependent upon,
21
,
147–48

and World War I,
88

British Columbia,
19
,
36
,
53–54
,
57
,
76
,
164

British Commonwealth,
101
,
133

British Military Intelligence (MI5),
135

Buchenwald,
135

buffalo,
46
,
59
,
160

Callaghan, Morley,
132

Canada Pension Plan (CPP),
148

Canadian Association of Adult Education,
132

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC),
25
,
132

Canadian constitution,
148

Canadian flag,
149

Canadian identity

and belief in Britain,
80
,
93
,
133
,
138

as a conservative nation,
133

and globalization,
172
,
174

independence,
68
,
101–2

myths of origin,
11
,
13
,
23
,
112
,
148
,
162

railway in,
62
,
167–68

reinventing,
148–49
,
170
,
173
,
176

as a small-town nation,
165–66

and U.S.,
11–13
,
84
,
142

effect of WWI,
93
,
102
,
111
,
112

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR),
45
,
57
,
62
,
161

Canadian Shield,
37
,
42
,
159

Catholicism (Roman),
34
,
140
,
160
,
165

Manitoba education,
44
,
60–61

Champlain, Samuel de,
75

Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
148–49

Chinese Canadians,
53–54

Christian missionaries,
44
,
48–49

citizenship

and bilingualism,
61

and cosmopolitanism,
6–7

dual,
13–14

east–west linkages of,
166–67

as service and sacrifice,
88

of successful societies,
175

and trust,
5

Cold War,
134
,
149

Colonial Institute (London),
63

Confederation of Canada,
35–36

conscription (WWI),
92

Conservatives,
84
,
142–43

Continental Divide,
52
,
164

Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF),
120

Craigellachie,
56
,
59
,
111
,
165

Cree peoples,
43
,
46
,
47
,
48–49
,
57
,
59
,
160
,
162
,
163

Curtis, Lionel,
77–78

Dalhousie University (Halifax),
137
,
140

Davies, Robertson,
107

Dawson Road,
38
,
41
,
158

Depression, the,
110

Diefenbaker, John,
141
,
142

Dumont, Gabriel,
162–63

Edmonton,
50–51
,
163

education

as bilingual,
61

break from British traditions,
103

Manitoba schools crisis (1890),
60–61

Ontario examination system,
105

of working class,
77

English in Canadian national myth,
13
,
23

Expo 67,
148

Fleming, Sandford,
20
,
36–40
,
57–59
,
64
,
138
,
166
,
168

Fraser Valley,
51
,
52
,
164
,
165

free trade,
21
,
149
,
167

trade reciprocity (1911),
84

French Canadians

in Manitoba school system,
60–61

in national myth,
13
,
148

of the Prairie,
44–45
,
59
,
60
,
162
,
163

Riel’s demands,
44

See also
Québécois

Frontier College,
77
,
105

globalization,
64
,
149
,
172
,
174

Globe
(Toronto),
60

Goring-on-Thames,
78
,
80–81
,
85–87
,
90
,
93
,
99

Grant, Alison.
See
Ignatieff, Jessie Alison Grant (mother)

Grant, Charity,
86
,
99
,
119

Grant, George Monro (great-grandfather),
20
,
23
,
29–30
,
35–36

and the Boer War,
65–70

death of,
70
,
73

early life of,
33–38

on empire,
26
,
62–63
,
67–70

on federal government,
61

retracing journey of,
157–65

a nationalist imperialist,
21

a Presbyterian minister,
34–37

as progressive and modern thinker,
138
,
144

second trip to the west,
57–58

tour of British Empire,
62–67

trip to South Africa,
65–66

See also
Ocean to Ocean
(GMG)
;
transcontinental crossing

Grant, George Parkin (uncle),
22–23
,
25

on abortion,
151

on American imperialism,
133
,
134
,
137
,
139
,
143
,
146
,
150

birth of,
107–8

Canada as lost in the past,
26

on Canadian identity,
138

a Christian conservative philosopher,
22
,
137–46

death of,
153

death of mother,
141

decision to enlist,
130–31

on empire,
130

fatalism of,
145–47

on liberalism and the Liberals,
120–21
,
139–40
,
141–44

marriage of,
137

on nuclear weapons,
133–34

pacifism and World War II,
121–22
,
125–34
,
133–34
,
137
,
138

relationship with Alison,
122–23
,
136
,
152

relationship with father,
110–11
,
119
,
120–21

relationship with Ignatieffs,
25
,
151–53

relationship with mother,
119–20
,
136
,
153

religious faith of,
132
,
136–37
,
144–45

on Soviet Union,
133
,
134

unfit for service,
131

The Empire, Yes or No,
133

“Have We a Canadian Nation?”,
132–33

See also
Lament for a Nation
(GPG)

Grant, James and Mary Monro,
33

Grant, Jessie Lawson (great-grandmother),
35
,
67
,
69
,
73

birth of son,
55

Grant, Margaret (aunt),
24
,
86
,
99
,
119

Grant, Maude Parkin (grandmother),
74
,
81–84
,
84–85
,
121
,
132

after William’s death,
119

birth of Jessie Alison,
91

death of,
141

Ignatieff’s memories of,
152–53

marriage,
85
,
86

during World War I,
90

Grant, William Lawson (grandfather),
20–21
,
82
,
83
,
99

academic achievements of,
76–77

on belief in God,
85

birth of,
55

birth of Jessie Alison,
91

death of,
110

on empire,
27
,
77–79
,
80
,
88
,
93

father’s death,
73–75

in France,
75

on gender equality,
91

marriage,
82–83
,
85

on patriotism,
109

principal at UCC,
102–7
,
106–7
,
110

war,
88
,
92
,
94–99
,
99–101

war, army life,
90–92

war, haunted by,
104–5
,
110–11

war, reflections on,
108–9
,
112–13
,
121

wounded,
98–99

History of Canada,
75–76
,
105–6

Our Just Cause,
89

Principal Grant
,
74

Greey, Elizabeth,
128

Greey, Mary,
128

Hart House (University of Toronto),
128
,
137

Heinemann Publishers,
89
,
99

Howe, C.D.,
141

Howe, Joseph,
35
,
86

Hudson’s Bay Company,
38
,
41
,
45
,
46
,
157

hydroelectric power,
169

Ignatieff, George,
123
,
134
,
143

Ignatieff, Jessie Alison Grant (mother),
24
,
99
,
119

Alzheimer’s disease,
141
,
152

birth of,
91
,
93

effect of the war,
140

marriage,
20
,
143

relationship with brother,
122–23
,
136
,
152

during the war,
128
,
129
,
132
,
135

Ignatieff, Michael

motivation for political life,
28–29

relationship with GPG,
25
,
150–53

Russian political refugees,
18–20

at Vimy monument,
113–15

The Russian Album
,
19

Ignatieff, Nicholas,
106
,
123
,
137

imagination

Canada as invented,
11
,
13
,
14
,
26
,
177

love of country as act of,
1–5

and unity,
15–18

immigrants,
33
,
55
,
61
,
161

in Canadian identity,
6–7
,
149
,
166

as citizens,
13–14

and role of government,
174–75

at UCC,
106–7

Imperial Federation League,
79–80

Imperial War Conference (1917),
101

Intercolonial Railway,
35–36

Iroquois guides,
38–41
,
56

Jasper and railway spike,
51–52
,
163–64

Kamloops,
53
,
164

Kicking Horse River valley,
57–58

King, Mackenzie,
120

Lament for a Nation
(GPG),
22–23
,
25
,
27–28
,
134
,
142–50
,
165

as a break from family values,
144–45

reception of,
143–44

wrongness of,
147–50

language

bilingualism,
40
,
44
,
61
,
148

Canada and United States,
12

and citizenship,
3

in defining a country,
11

diversity of,
15
,
16

French methods of teaching,
103

in identity,
12

Iroquois,
39

Laurier, Wilfrid,
20
,
59
,
69
,
84
,
92
,
170

League of Nations,
22
,
109

Letendre, Xavier (Batoche),
163

Liberal Party