Inventing the Loyalists : : The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts / / Norman Knowles.
The Loyalists have often been credited with planting a coherent and unified tradition that has been passed on virtually unchanged to subsequent generations and that continues to define Ontario's political culture. Challenging past scholarship, Norman Knowles argues that there never has been con...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. 'Chiefly landholders, farmers, and others': The Loyalist Reality
- 2. 'An ancestry of which any people might be proud': Official History, the Vernacular Past, and the Shaping of the Loyalist Tradition at Mid-Century
- 3. 'Loyalism is not dead in Adolphustown': Community Factionalism and the Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Celebrations of 1884
- 4. A sacred trust': The 1884 Toronto, Niagara, and Six Nations Loyalist Centennial Celebrations and the Politics of Commemoration
- 5. 'Fairy tales in the guise of history': The Loyalists in Ontario Publications, 1884-1918
- 6. 'Object lessons': Loyalist Monuments and the Creation of Usable Pasts
- 7. 'A further and more enduring mark of honour': The Middle Class and the United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1914
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Picture Credits
- Index