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Wild Card Precis
“Wild Card” Précis Assignment
Length: c. 400 words.
Due: 11 April end of day. Please submit via Blackboard.
Please name the file with your last name (eg: Smith, John
wildcard precis). Please click on the title to submit your
work.
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The course offers the opportunity to read a limited
number of scholarly articles to supplement the textbook
reading and lectures. If it were possible to add another
reading, what reading should it be? What does this
reading offer that is valuable, and what are the ideas that
it conveys?
Think about areas covered in the lectures or textbook for
which there might have been a further, more focused,
reading assigned—perhaps an event, a person, group, or
geographical area of pre-Confederation Canada that did
not receive sufficient attention. Or perhaps you can find
a better article choice for a topic already covered. Make a
case for why the alternative article is a good choice.
Do a search of library journals to identify a suitable
specific scholarly article or primary source. Book reviews
are not a suitable choice for this assignment.
Please work independently, and not with another
student.
Read the article thoroughly, make a case for its inclusion
on the course syllabus, and summarize the main ideas in
your own words. The summary of ideas will be very
much equivalent to the précis writing that you have
already done in the course. But, in addition to this, you
are making a case for why the article is important. Make
sure you do both these things.
Be sure that the proposed reading is a good fit for the
course geographically and chronologically (i.e., the
subject is pre-Confederation Canada or something that
has direct relevance to it). Decades-old articles can still
be useful sometimes, but you will want to ensure that
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there is not a better or more up-to-date article on the
same topic that might be used instead.
Be sure to include all publication details (using Chicago
Manual of Style Humanities style) at the top of the page
to enable someone else to find the reading. Proofread
your work carefully. A sample is included below.
“Wild Card” Précis Sample [from 2012]:
E. Jane Errington, “Reluctant Warriors: British North
Americans and the War of 1812,” in Readings in Canadian
History. Pre-Confederation, ed. R. Douglas Francis and Donald
B. Smith (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007): 260-68.
This year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the War
of 1812, and there has already been some attention in the
media to the ways in which the conflict is remembered. The
course syllabus contains an article on the progress of the war
on the Northwest frontier, and the ways in which the British
cultivated alliances with the aboriginal nations to further
their own goals, but it does not include any readings on the
better-known battles in Upper Canada. These Upper
Canadian events—the famous British victory at Queenston
Heights in which Isaac Brock was killed, and the brave
actions of Upper Canadian settler Laura Secord, who warned
Lieutenant Fitzgibbon about a planned attack on Beaver
Dams—are at the centre of popular historical memory of the
conflict. Canadians enjoy celebrating a war in which our
more powerful southern neighbour was humbled and “we”
burned the White House. The anniversary affords an ideal
opportunity to reflect on the larger issue of historical
commemoration—what do we choose to remember, and
how do those memories fit with our conception of
ourselves?
The proposed article by E. Jane Errington, “Reluctant
Warriors: British North Americans and the War of 1812,”
argues that long-cherished popular notions of the War of
1812—that brave Canadians ardently defended their homes
and their Loyalist values against the American threat—bear
little resemblance to historical reality. Rather, she suggests,
Upper Canadians were “reluctant” fighters who had little
personal attachment to the British Crown, and had strong
ties to the American republic. Most Upper Canadians did not
have Loyalist origins, but rather had come north more
recently, and maintained business and cultural connections
across a rather porous border. Colonial officials were deeply
concerned about the reliability of the local population in
what was sure to be an unpopular conflict. Militia service
would take men away from their farms and commercial
enterprises, and few seemed willing to make the sacrifice. It
was only in the years after the war that a mythology grew up
surrounding it: the war came to be remembered as the
occasion on which loyal Canadians patriotically resisted a
determined American invasion. Indeed, the War of 1812 has
become a defining moment in Canadian nationhood, a view
that Errington maintains is a retrospective distortion of how
Canadians actually felt at the time.

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