Chapter 3 Four Keys to Make Sense of Traditions

Some of the top 10 nonprofit organizations of Canada, both in terms of budget and of donations received, collaborate closely with Western governments and churches – World Vision Canada and Plan International chief among them.3 For most of them, fundraising methods and publics, networks of institutions in the Global South, and their structures of governance and ambitions represent a mixture of West. [...] Memories and histories exist of early instances of Indigenous support of French immigrants in time of famine (1629), of military and economic leverage from Indigenous peoples, and of influence on the practice of Christianity and the administration of justice. [...] The end of the French rule of Canada also opened the way for large Protestant settlements, the creation of Protestant parishes, and the expansion of Protestant missions for Indigenous peoples and settlers. [...] At the end of the 18th century, British colonial authorities were anxious to prevent the alliance of the former French colonists, still the majority of the population of Canada, with the Republican independence movement of the US. [...] Over the last century, larger transformations in the history of labour, including the professionalization of social work and new managerial techniques in the governance of philanthropic institutions, have increased the proportion of paid employees of charities working for a wage and have influenced the managerial techniques of charities.