Living through a pandemic: Canadians and Quebeckers during the 1918 flu
The goal of this assignment is to write a report on the 1918 flu pandemic that affected
Canada, Quebec and the rest of the world. More than 50 million people died in the world.
Your report will address the following questions.
-When did the flu pandemic start in Canada and in Quebec? When did it end?
-What were the symptoms of the flu? How did the flu spread?
-How many people were infected in Canada and in Quebec? How many people died in
Canada and in Quebec? Were specific ethnic groups more affected than others? Were
men more affected than women? Were old people mostly affected? Were Indigenous
people affected?
-How did municipal, provincial and federal governments react? Which measures were
implemented? Did governments impose a lockdown? Did schools close? For how long?
Did cinemas, theatres, restaurants, and businesses close? For how long?
-Did governments provide financial assistance to those who were sick? To those who lost
their jobs? To those who lost their businesses?
-How did health authorities react? What did they tell the population? How should people
protect themselves?
-Did people wear masks? Did people comply or defy health measures? Were there any
debates on what governments should do during the pandemic?
-How did religious organizations react? What did they tell their followers?
-Was there a cure?
-What were the long-term consequences?
Your paper should address the questions listed above. Please do not hesitate to include
other aspects that reveal how Canadians and Quebeckers dealt with the flu pandemic. For
some questions, you wont have to write much. However, you will write several
sentences for other questions. Although your paper should deal with Canada, you should
explain how Quebec municipalities, institutions, businesses, people and provincial
government dealt with the pandemic. You should give examples about Quebec.
How to proceed?
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1)You should read the articles listed below. These short articles will give you a broad
perspective on the flu pandemic and one of them, Learning from Past Pandemics:
Resources on the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in Canada, will give you a list of
books, journal articles and websites that you should use for your report.
The 1918 Influenza in the Canadian Encyclopedia
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1918-spanish-flu-in-canada
The Spanish flu in Canada on the Park Canada website
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/doc/informationbackgrounder/espagnole-spanish
Learning from Past Pandemics: Resources on the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in
Canada, Active History.ca http://activehistory.ca/2020/04/learning-from-a-pastpandemic-resources-on-the-1918-1919-influenza-epidemic-in-canada/
Spanish Influenza in Victoria, Canada, 1918-1920: One citys experience of the Great
Pandemic https://spanishfluvictoriabc.com/the-plague-approaches/
2) You need to do some research and read about the flu pandemic and its impact in
Canada and in particular in Quebec. Most resources are available online. I encourage you
to look at two newspapers in particular, The Globe and the Toronto Star.
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Once you are on the Globe or the Toronto Star websites, you will find newspaper
articles that deal with the pandemic. For instance, you can type Spanish flu, and
you will find more than 700 articles on this topic in the Globe. Do not forget to
focus on the 1918-20 period in Quebec. If you are on the Toronto Star website,
you will find more than 750 articles on the flu between January 1918 and February
1919. Good luck.
Deadline
Your assignment should be between 8 and 10 pages (between 2,000 and 2,500 words).
All sources should be credible scholarly sources and should be cited, using the Chicago
Manual of Style, in footnotes

Case Study 2

Weight: 20%
Submit: via the Dropbox tool
Due: Week 9
Note: Please refer to the Outline for exact due dates.

Assignment Overview

In Case Study 1, you had the opportunity to conduct primary source research using the Old Bailey Online. Case Study 2 will expand on the skills you developed in completing the first Case Study, and will prepare you for the in-depth analysis of specific criminals in Units 10 and 11. In completing this Case Study, you’ll be exposed to new databases of primary source material, and you’ll have the opportunity to construct a biographical profile of your chosen criminal. As with the first Case Study assignment, this assignment exposes you to the tools used by historians, and also demonstrates how these tools can be harnessed for use in other disciplines, such as criminal justice, and other social sciences.

Instructions

Step One
Begin by choosing one of the following three criminals: Elizabeth Brownrigg, James Maclaine, or Renwick Williams. You have already been introduced to Elizabeth Brownrigg (see Unit 06). As you’ll remember, she was accused of child abuse and was convicted and executed in the mid-eighteenth century. James Maclaine was a notorious highwayman and thief, and was executed in 1750. Finally, Renwick Williams was apprehended in 1790 for assaulting women on the streets of London. In order to narrow down your choice, you may wish to search for these criminals in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which is available online through the Guelph Library website.

Step Two
Locate at least three, and no more than five, secondary sources, and at least one primary source. Good sources for primary source material include:

Newspapers held by the British Library
Books and pamphlets contained in Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth-Century Journals
All these sources can be accessed through the Guelph Library website.

Secondary sources can be chosen from the list of supplementary readings contained on the course website or from the list of sources that was provided for the first Case Study. If you choose to use any sources not listed, please run them by me as soon as possible in order to ensure that you’ve selected appropriate sources. Wikipedia, online blogs, and encyclopaedias are not considered appropriate sources for an assignment at this level. Please use the library’s website to find academic, peer-reviewed journals or books.

Step Three
For this assignment, you are required to explore the crimes of your chosen individual, their encounters with the justice system, and their impact on the societies they inhabited. Using these three areas as a guide, create an overall argument about your chosen criminal’s relevance within his/her own society, and within the history of criminal justice. Make sure your argument focuses not only on the simple fact that your chosen criminal made an impact, but on how and why he/she made this impact. Your analysis will be assessed based on four areas: the depth of analysis and the level of detail, the relevance and use of your sources, your overall writing style, and the formatting of your essay and bibliography.

Assignment Requirements

Your essay should follow the typical conventions for academic writing. Your essay should:

Be written in essay format (no point form), though sub-headings are acceptable;
Follow the conventions of academic essays (avoid the use of personal pronouns, contractions, and colloquial language);
Be based on your own research (you should not need to reference the course materials, though what you have learned during the course should certainly inform your opinions);
Include a title page, including your name and student number, the title of the course, the title of your Case Analysis, and the date;
Include footnotes and a bibliography written in the University of Chicago format. To learn more about this format, have a look at the University of Guelph Library website;
Be at least 1,800 words, and no more than 2,500 words, including the bibliography.
Submission Instructions

Once you have completed the case analysis, save your file as a Word file according to the convention FirstNameLastNameCase2.docx. Submit your assignment electronically to the appropriate folder via the Dropbox (select Dropbox from the Tools dropdown menu). Be sure to keep a back-up copy of all of your assignments in the event that they are lost in transition.

Marking Expectations

Your essay will be evaluated based on four main criteria:

Depth of analysis and level of detail
Use and relevance of primary and secondary sources
Overall writing style and organization
Formatting (use of Chicago Style for footnotes and bibliography)
To see a more detailed breakdown of these criteria, read through the Case Study 2 Rubric.

The final paper should be 10 double-spaced pages in length, exclusive of title page, abstract, should you wish to include it, and any end note and bibliography pages. It is preferred that you use Microsoft Word if possible, one (1) inch margins on all sides.  The font should be Times New Roman. Write a research paper that uses both primary and secondary sources. The end of the paper should indicate what conclusion you have come to after having researched and written about the subject. It should also demonstrate how or why you have arrived at a particular conclusion.

I will include abstract, thesis, and bibilography

The final paper should be 10 double-spaced pages in length, exclusive of title page, abstract, should you wish to include it, and any end note and bibliography pages. It is preferred that you use Microsoft Word if possible, one (1) inch margins on all sides.  The font should be Times New Roman. Write a research paper that uses both primary and secondary sources. The end of the paper should indicate what conclusion you have come to after having researched and written about the subject. It should also demonstrate how or why you have arrived at a particular conclusion.

I will include abstract, thesis, and bibilography

Drawing on information from Seths A Concise History of Modern Korea, Jagers Brothers at War, Barbara Demicks Nothing to Envy, and other class materials as needed, write a considerable and in-depth analytical essay of five to seven pages on the question.

Add footnotes within the paper in Chicago Manual of style

Add works cited at the end of the paper