Abstract

Canada is a well understood example of a settler colony. This perspective on the country finds resonance in extant feminist and intersectional scholarship, as well in the work of Indigenous scholars and others in the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies. In tracing the evolution of Canadian citizenship from the foundation of the modern Canadian state in 1867 to the present, and in centring Canada as a settler colony, the chapter illuminates the specific contestations as well as contradictions inherent in Canadian citizenship that make it gendered as well as a site of ongoing struggle. The broad relevance of the case of Canada lies in illuminating considerations of solidarity, as well as in what Leanne Simpson has called co-resistance, in settler colonies.