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.
By:
Miriam Smith
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 222mm,
Width: 149mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781442641280
ISBN 10: 1442641282
Series: Themes in Canadian History
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 February 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction 2. History and Memory, 1750s–1870s 3. The Heyday of Public Commemorations in Canada: 1870s–1920s 4. Remembering Canada at War 5. Commemoration, Historical Preservation, and the Canadian State 6. Shaping History through Tourism 7. Teaching the Nation Its History: Schoolchildren and the Canadian Past 8. Epilogue
Cecilia Morgan is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the author of Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850–1990s (2016), as well as Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860–1980 (2015).
Reviews for Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
'This is a book that should be widely read...All who are interested in Canadian history will benefit from this wide-reaching study.' -- Tim Cook Canada's History October-November 2016 'This will be a useful resource for teaching how history has been used and abused for nationalist and other purposes.' -- J.I. Little Canadian Historical Review vol 98:01:2017
