Celebrating Canada : : Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols /

Celebrating Canada : : Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols / / Raymond B. Blake, Mathew Hayday.

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 continu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Blake, Raymond B.,
Hayday, Mathew,
MitwirkendeR:
Beaton, Meaghan Elizabeth,
Blake, Raymond B.,
Bourque, Denis,
Cogan, Ted,
Cupido, Robert,
Davies, Helen,
Dimmel, Brandon,
Hayday, Matthew,
Huskins, Bonnie,
Los, Christopher,
Marquis, Greg,
McRae, Matthew,
Price, Peter,
Richard, Chantal,
Schwarz, Robyn E.,
Talbot, Robert J.,
Trepanier, James,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols
  • 1. National Symbols and Commemorations: Analysing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions nationales acadiennes in New Brunswick in the 1880s
  • 2. Emblemizing Canada in the Flag Debate of 1895
  • 3. Children of a Common Mother: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary
  • 4. Competing Pasts, Multiple Identities: The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation and the Politics of Commemoration
  • 5. Bilingualism and Biculturalism at the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, 1927
  • 6. Canada’s Centennial Experience
  • 7. A “Labor of Love in a Community Spirit”: The Cape Breton Miners’ Museum and the Remaking of Historical Consciousness
  • 8. Federal Funding, Local Priorities: Urban Planning and Ontario’s Municipal Centennial Projects
  • 9. Alternative Identities: The 1967 Centennial and the Campaign for a Better Canada
  • 10. “Fit for Citizenship”: Scouting and the Centennial Celebrations of 1967
  • 11. A Continental Centennial: Situating Expo 67 within the Canadian-American Relationship
  • 12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island’s Centennial Decade
  • 13. Conclusion: The Importance of Commemorations and National Symbols
  • Contributors

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