Colonization and Assimilation News Articles

When Canada Used Hunger to Clear the West

By James Daschuck, July 2013; The Globe and Mail An article addressing what came with the settlement of Canada. From the article "[...] a key aspect of preparing the land was the subjugation and forced removal of indigenous communities from their traditional territories, essentially clearing the plains of aboriginal people to make way for railway construction and settlement. Despite guarantees of food aid in times of famine in Treaty Number 6. Canadian officials used food, or rather denied food, as a means to ethnically cleanse a vast region from Regina to the Alberta border as the Canadian Pacific Railway took shape."

John A. Macdonald’s Aryan Canada: Aboriginal Genocide and Chinese Exclusion

By Timothy J Stanley, January 2015; Active History An article that looks into John A. Macdonald's impact on peoples of Aboriginal and Chinese descent in Canada.

Old Tomorrow’s Bicentennial: Don’t Think Motivation, Think Law

By James Daschuck, January 2015; Active History An article that looks specifically at John A. Macdonald's impact on peoples of Aboriginal descent in Canada.

John A. MacDonald was a near genocidal extremist even for his time 

By MacDonald, Dan, & Farber, January 11 2015; National Post.

Sure, John A. Macdonald was a racist, colonizer and misogynist--but so were most Canadians back then

By Tristin Hopper, January 10 2015; National Post.