Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols

Raymond B. Blake; Mathew Hayday

Published by University of Toronto Press 2018

Celebrating Canada

Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols

Raymond B. Blake and Mathew Hayday

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621558

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About this book

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 / Editor information

Blake Raymond B. :

Raymond B. Blake is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Regina.
Hayday Mathew :

Matthew Hayday is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

Reviews

Len Kuffert, Department of History, University of Manitoba :

"Presenting emerging scholarship about Canadian commemorative efforts, especially those surrounding anniversaries or the qualities of ‘Canadian-ness,’ Celebrating Canada, Volume 2 is both implicitly and explicitly aware of how cultures of varying scopes and sizes construct commemorative and celebratory events from anniversaries of battles or migrations to continual interpretation."

Norman Hillmer, Chancellor’s Professor of History and International Affairs, Carleton University:

"This second volume of Celebrating Canada exposes the varieties, commonalities, and contradictions of the Canadian experience; the multiple and multilayered meanings of belonging; identity -shaping, identity -shifting, and identity -resisting; nationalisms and the uses to which they can be put; the small voices alongside the powerful; the absences, exclusions, and the margins as well as the grand national story; the modern and the anti-modern; top-down and bottom-up mobilization and something in between; and the constant and fluid re-imagining and re-imaging of what it means to be Canadian."

Jeff A. Webb, Department of History, Memorial University:

"Celebrating Canada, Volume 2 makes a significant contribution to the history of Canadian political identity. Moving beyond a study of the federal state, this collection shows how local communities make their own meaning out of the July 1 celebrations."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1. National Symbols and Commemorations: Analysing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions nationales acadiennes in New Brunswick in the 1880s Denis Bourque, Bonnie Huskins, Greg Marquis and Chantal Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
2. Emblemizing Canada in the Flag Debate of 1895 Peter Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3. Children of a Common Mother: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary Brandon Dimmel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. Competing Pasts, Multiple Identities: The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation and the Politics of Commemoration Robert Cupido Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5. Bilingualism and Biculturalism at the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, 1927 Robert J. Talbot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. Canada’s Centennial Experience Helen Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
7. A “Labor of Love in a Community Spirit”: The Cape Breton Miners’ Museum and the Remaking of Historical Consciousness Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
8. Federal Funding, Local Priorities: Urban Planning and Ontario’s Municipal Centennial Projects Christopher Los Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
9. Alternative Identities: The 1967 Centennial and the Campaign for a Better Canada Ted Cogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
10. “Fit for Citizenship”: Scouting and the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 James Trepanier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
11. A Continental Centennial: Situating Expo 67 within the Canadian-American Relationship Robyn E. Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island’s Centennial Decade Matthew McRae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
13. Conclusion: The Importance of Commemorations and National Symbols Matthew Hayday and Raymond B. Blake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 392

eBook

Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9781442621558