Not Quite Us: Anti-Catholic Thought in English Canada since 1900

In twentieth-century Canada, mainline Protestants, fundamentalists, liberal nationalists, monarchists, conservative Anglophiles, and left-wing intellectuals had one thing in common: they all subscribed to a centuries-old world view that Catholicism was an authoritarian, regressive, untrustworthy, and foreign force that did not fit into a democratic, British nation like Canada.

Analyzing the connections between anti-Catholicism and national identity in English Canada, Not Quite Us examines th...