Celebrating Canada
Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols
Will be published approx. on 20. February 2018
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-4426-4981-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-4981-1 (9781442649811)
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Persons
Raymond B. Blake is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Regina.
Matthew Hayday is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.
Matthew Hayday is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.
Content
Introduction
Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols
1. National Symbols and Commemorations: Analyzing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions nationales acadiennes in New Brunswick in the 1880s
Denis Bourque, Bonnie Huskins, Greg Marquis, and Chantal Richard
2. Emblemizing Canada in the "Flag Debate" of 1895
Peter Price
3. Children of a Common Mother: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary
Brandon Dimmel
4. Competing Pasts, Multiple Identities: The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation and the Politics of Commemoration
Robert Cupido
5. Bilingualism and Biculturalism at the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation
Robert J. Talbot
6. Canada's Centennial Experience
Helen Davies
7. A "labor of love in a community spirit": The Cape Breton Miners' Museum and the Remaking of Historical Consciousness
Meaghan Beaton
8. Federal Funding, Local Priorities: Urban Planning and Ontario's Municipal Centennial Projects
Christopher Los
9. Alternative Identities: The 1967 Centennial and the Campaign for a Better Canada
Ted Cogan
10. Fit for Citizenship': Scouting and the Centennial Celebrations of 1967
James Trepanier
11. A Continental Centennial: Situating Expo 67 within the Canadian-American Relationship
Robyn E. Schwarz
12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island's Centennial Decade
Matthew McRae
Conclusion
Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols
1. National Symbols and Commemorations: Analyzing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions nationales acadiennes in New Brunswick in the 1880s
Denis Bourque, Bonnie Huskins, Greg Marquis, and Chantal Richard
2. Emblemizing Canada in the "Flag Debate" of 1895
Peter Price
3. Children of a Common Mother: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary
Brandon Dimmel
4. Competing Pasts, Multiple Identities: The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation and the Politics of Commemoration
Robert Cupido
5. Bilingualism and Biculturalism at the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation
Robert J. Talbot
6. Canada's Centennial Experience
Helen Davies
7. A "labor of love in a community spirit": The Cape Breton Miners' Museum and the Remaking of Historical Consciousness
Meaghan Beaton
8. Federal Funding, Local Priorities: Urban Planning and Ontario's Municipal Centennial Projects
Christopher Los
9. Alternative Identities: The 1967 Centennial and the Campaign for a Better Canada
Ted Cogan
10. Fit for Citizenship': Scouting and the Centennial Celebrations of 1967
James Trepanier
11. A Continental Centennial: Situating Expo 67 within the Canadian-American Relationship
Robyn E. Schwarz
12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island's Centennial Decade
Matthew McRae
Conclusion