Dick, Lyle. The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970
Document Type: Journal Articles (2)
Date of Document(s): 1991
Indexing Progress: Relationship Indexed
Indexing Progress: Relationship Indexed
Primary or Secondary Source: Secondary Source
Author: Dick, Lyle
Title: The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970
Journal Title: From Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
Place of Publication: Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher Name: The Runge Press Limited
Date of Publication: 1991
Date of Copyright: c1991
Volume ID: 2
Location in Work: 91-113
ISBN/ISSN: 0847-4478
Abstract: The Seven Oaks incident, a violent clash between Métis and Hudson's Bay Company Selkirk settlers at Red River in 1816, was long represented in Canadian historical discourse as a "massacre." In investigating the genesis of this interpretation, the paper examines the primary record and employs textual analysis to distinguish the "story", or basic facts, from the "disourse", or rhetorical overwriting by the event's historians. The paper also reexamines the respective roles of amateur and professional historians in Western Canadian historiography in the context of the discourse on Seven Oaks.
Title: The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970
Journal Title: From Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
Place of Publication: Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher Name: The Runge Press Limited
Date of Publication: 1991
Date of Copyright: c1991
Volume ID: 2
Location in Work: 91-113
ISBN/ISSN: 0847-4478
Abstract: The Seven Oaks incident, a violent clash between Métis and Hudson's Bay Company Selkirk settlers at Red River in 1816, was long represented in Canadian historical discourse as a "massacre." In investigating the genesis of this interpretation, the paper examines the primary record and employs textual analysis to distinguish the "story", or basic facts, from the "disourse", or rhetorical overwriting by the event's historians. The paper also reexamines the respective roles of amateur and professional historians in Western Canadian historiography in the context of the discourse on Seven Oaks.