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An Accidental History of Canada : Mcgill-queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society - Megan J. Davies

An Accidental History of Canada

By: Megan J. Davies (Editor), Geoffrey L. Hudson (Editor)

Paperback | 18 June 2024

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Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomenon of risk, upset, and misfortune has been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller scale accident where fate is more intimate. Yet such events often have a vivid afterlife in the communities where they happen, and the way in which they are explained and remembered has significant social, cultural, and political meaning.

An Accidental History of Canada brings together original studies of an intriguing range of accidents stretching from the 1630s to the 1970s. These include workplace accidents, domestic accidents, childhood accidents, and leisure accidents in colonial, Indigenous, rural, and urban settings. Whether arising from colonial power relations, urban dangers, perils in resource extraction, or hazardous recreations, most accidents occur within circumstances of vulnerability, and reveal precarity and inequities not otherwise apparent. Contributors to this volume are alert to the intersections of the settler agenda and the elevation of risk that it brought. Indigenous and settler ways of understanding accidents are juxtaposed, with chapters exploring the links between accidents and the rise of the modern state.

An Accidental History of Canada makes plain that whether they are interpreted as an intervention by providence, a miscalculation, inevitability, or the result of observable risk, accidents - and our responses to them - reveal shared values.

Industry Reviews

"Hudson and Davies are asking questions that simply have not be asked before in Canada. This collection addresses the traditional 'gaps' in the telling of the nation's history, such as the marginalization of Indigenous peoples, immigrants, the labouring classes, and those living beyond urban settings." Jonathan Swainger, University of Northern British Columbia


"This books depicts a Canada different from the one generally seen in the historiography, which has tended to focus on major urban centres. The contributors are much more attentive to Canada's geographical margins - its resource frontiers and its rural peripheries. This detailed collection paints a portrait of Canada 'from the margins in.'" Magda Fahrni, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

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