By Dirk Hoerder
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Did Macedonian women in Hamilton struggle to fulfil Franklin's model of self-made man? And what models did Japanese immigrants emulate? Middle-class autobiographers, such as the Canadian authors Laura Salverson and Fredelle Maynard, may tap the stock of cultural symbols available, but most of our authors led their lives without reflecting about central myths and archetypes. They followed traditions of everyday culture and, unencumbered by Rousseaus's Confessions, forged their lives between cultures and raised children.
Did Macedonian women in Hamilton struggle to fulfil Franklin's model of self-made man? And what models did Japanese immigrants emulate? Middle-class autobiographers, such as the Canadian authors Laura Salverson and Fredelle Maynard, may tap the stock of cultural symbols available, but most of our authors led their lives without reflecting about central myths and archetypes. They followed traditions of everyday culture and, unencumbered by Rousseaus's Confessions, forged their lives between cultures and raised children.
Contemporary settlers whose only capital was hope for a future and a will to labour hard could neither afford such gentility nor had they been socialized into it. 4 Contexts A third approach of writers was of a pan-national and often romanticizing bent. Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Canadian Ballads, 1858) and Alexander McLachlan (The Emigrant and Other Poems, 1861) attempted to foster a Canadian national spirit taking into account some of multiple cultural backgrounds. Mary Esther MacGregor, writing under the pseudonym of Marian Keith, in The Silver Maple: A Tale of Upper Canada (1906) described the insularity of the separate seven early collectivities - the Acadian and Lower Canada French, Irish and English, Ulster, Lowland, and Gaelic Highland Scots.