Commemorating Canada

Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487510770

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Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas. Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been important, Cecilia Morgan describes the growth of historical pageantry, popular history, textbooks, historical societies, museums, and monuments through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showing how Canadians have clashed over conflicting interpretations of history and how they have come together to create shared histories, she demonstrates the importance of history in shaping Canadian identity. Though public history in both French and English Canada was written predominantly by white, middle-class men, Morgan also discusses the activism and agency of women, immigrants, and Indigenous peoples. The book concludes with a brief examination of present-day debates over Canada’s history and Canadians’ continuing interest in their pasts.

Author : Mathew Hayday,Raymond B. Blake
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442621541

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Celebrating Canada by Mathew Hayday,Raymond B. Blake Pdf

Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national and provincial holidays and annual celebrations. The contributors to this volume examine such holidays as Dominion Day, Victoria Day, Quebec’s Fête Nationale and Canadian Thanksgiving, among many others. They also examine how Canadians celebrate the national days of other countries (like the Fourth of July) and how Dominion Day was observed in the United Kingdom. Drawing heavily on primary source research, and theories of nationalism, identities and invented traditions, the essays in this collection deepen our understanding of how these holidays have influenced the evolution of Canadian identities.

Author : Raymond B. Blake,Matthew Hayday
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442627147

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Celebrating Canada by Raymond B. Blake,Matthew Hayday Pdf

In Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada, Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada's political, social, or cultural development were celebrated.

Author : Raymond B. Blake,Mathew Hayday
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442621565

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Celebrating Canada by Raymond B. Blake,Mathew Hayday Pdf

Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social, or cultural development were celebrated. The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate various attempts at shaping and re-shaping identities, and explore episodes of groups resisting or participating in the identity-formation process. By considering the small voices and those on the margins of Canada’s many commemorative anniversaries, the contributors to Celebrating Canada reveal how important it is to think not only about anniversary moments but also about what they can tell us about our history and the shifting function of nationalism.

Author : Serge Joyal,Judith Seidman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773555396

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Reflecting on Our Past and Embracing Our Future by Serge Joyal,Judith Seidman Pdf

A clear-eyed look at the Senate's original purpose and contemporary role in Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canada
ISBN : 144262714X

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Celebrating Canada by Anonim Pdf

"Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national and provincial holidays and annual celebrations. The contributors to this volume examine such holidays as Dominion Day, Victoria Day, Quebec's Fête Nationale and Canadian Thanksgiving, among many others. They also examine how Canadians celebrate the national days of other countries (like the Fourth of July) and how Dominion Day was observed in the United Kingdom. Drawing heavily on primary source research, and theories of nationalism, identities and invented traditions, the essays in this collection deepen our understanding of how these holidays have influenced the evolution of Canadian identities."--Site web de l'éditeur.

Author : Robert Coutts
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887559303

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Authorized Heritage by Robert Coutts Pdf

"Authorized Heritage" analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous views of history confront the conventions of settler colonial pasts and represent the fluid cultural perspectives that should define the shifting ground of heritage space. Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a public historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a conventional and conservative national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not.

Author : Parks Canada. National Parks,Parks Canada. National Historic Sites
Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 0662655931

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Commemorating Canadian Settlement Patterns by Parks Canada. National Parks,Parks Canada. National Historic Sites Pdf

Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442610613

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Commemorating Canada by Cecilia Morgan Pdf

Author : Peter E. Baker
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781459740259

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Celebrating Canada by Peter E. Baker Pdf

A visual journey showcasing how history can make a house a home, a reminder of the strength of character and ingenuity entrenched in Canada’s history. Inspired by the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation — the same year recognizing 375 years of settlement in Montreal — Quebec antiques professional Peter E. Baker brings life to Canadian history and demonstrates how antiques and folk art can successfully be incorporated into a contemporary lifestyle, providing a home with a unique identity. Drawing from a single collection, the author selects and showcases objects spanning three centuries of Canadian history, from the early days of French settlement to the creative boom of late-20th-century folk artists. Amply illustrated, and written in a conversational, easy-to-read style, this is not a traditional technical study of antiques representing a specific type or region. Celebrating Canada showcases the story and the artistic merits of each object.

Author : Helene Vosters
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780887555855

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Unbecoming Nationalism by Helene Vosters Pdf

Canada’s recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using “unbecoming” as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene Vosters examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects to reveal and unravel the threads connecting reverential military commemoration, celebratory cultural nationalism, and white settler-colonial nationalism. Vosters brings readings of institutional, aesthetic, and activist performances of Canadian military commemoration, settler-colonial nationalism, and redress into conversation with literature that examines the relationship between memory, violence, and nationalism from the disciplinary arenas of performance studies, Canadian studies, critical race and Indigenous studies, memory studies, and queer and gender studies. In addition to using performance as a theoretical framework, Vosters uses performance to enact a philosophy of praxis and embodied theory.

Author : Caroline Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0921103387

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Let's Celebrate! by Caroline Parry Pdf

Looks at some of the ways the people of Canada celebrate their holidays and special days.

Author : Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555664

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Rooster Town by Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner Pdf

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Author : Parcs Canada. Parcs nationaux,Parcs Canada. Lieux historiques nationaux
Publisher : Parks Canada, National Historic Sites
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0662655923

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Commemorating Canada's Built Heritage of the Modern Era by Parcs Canada. Parcs nationaux,Parcs Canada. Lieux historiques nationaux Pdf

Author : Molly Aloian
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778747522

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Canada Day by Molly Aloian Pdf

Join in on this festive federal holiday, celebrating the birth of a nation by Canadians from coast to coast. See the many different ways in which this multi-cultural nation recognizes this occasion with fireworks, music, food, a day-off work, and other special events.