History and Another Long Canadian Weekend
May. 23rd, 2021 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineGood morning, everyone!
Midway through this particular Canadian Long Weekend - and maybe we need to change the name of it, because Imperial/Colonial nonsense? - and I've gotten dishes washed, kitchen floors vacuumed and CPAP gear cleaned. So I'm rewarding myself with internet time that doesn't have anything to do with job-hunting.
Looking at Rick Salutin's 1973 essay "The Great Canadian History Robbery"...and I now see one of the places where Will Ferguson might have gotten some of his inspiration for Bastards and Boneheads - and the Canadian History for Dummies that followed it - from. Clearly, we need regular rethinks of Canadian history. Richard Gwyn's Macdonald-worshipping ghost can go climb a tree...upside down.
Midway through this particular Canadian Long Weekend - and maybe we need to change the name of it, because Imperial/Colonial nonsense? - and I've gotten dishes washed, kitchen floors vacuumed and CPAP gear cleaned. So I'm rewarding myself with internet time that doesn't have anything to do with job-hunting.
Looking at Rick Salutin's 1973 essay "The Great Canadian History Robbery"...and I now see one of the places where Will Ferguson might have gotten some of his inspiration for Bastards and Boneheads - and the Canadian History for Dummies that followed it - from. Clearly, we need regular rethinks of Canadian history. Richard Gwyn's Macdonald-worshipping ghost can go climb a tree...upside down.
