Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters is a collection of articles on a broad variety of
Canadian topics and themes from literature to language and linguistics from social and
political issues to art and aesthetics philosophy history and geography. Initiated by The
Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS) this volume has been put together by an
international team of scholars who all work in the multidisciplinary field of Canadian
Studies.The book engages with the broad theme of exploration in both concrete and metaphorical
terms. The writers recognise that Canadian society has emerged from complex processes of
exploration and encounters between people and ideas. The volume looks beyond simply celebrating
these processes and asks how different peoples regions and ideas in Canada have been shaped
by centuries of exploits and encounters in terms of gaining visibility and representation in
the political life literature and social relations of a multi-ethnic society.
