In this section you can find some reading logs about anything concerning the society of pre-confederation Canada. Reading all these sources gave me an impression of the different topics of the course material. The reading logs displayed here lead me to chose the topic of my research project, both the document analysis and the research paper, as I personally considered them the most interesting. Nothing tells you more about a country than its society. The readings answered my first questions about how the society looked like – which population groups were there, what issues did they have to deal with?
In addition, you can find a reading log that examines the role of bias when thinking historically. I included this, because when examining sources that were published a long time ago, we have to keep in mind that times have changed, and so has our point of view on certain issues. Having read this in the very first week of this term, it influenced me in the way that I always took a step back and thought about who wrote something and why.
The bibliography to these reading logs can be found here.