| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits |
| Contents |
Introduction : local acts of placing and remembering / James Opp and John C. Walsh -- Performing public memory and re-placing home in the Ottowa Valley, 1900-58 / John C. Walsh -- History and the Six Nations : the dynamics of commemoration, colonial space, and colonial knowledge / Cecilia Morgan -- Edmonton's Jasper Avenue : public ritual, heritage, and memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa -- The highland heart in Nova Scotia : place and memory at the Highland Village Museum / Alan Gordon -- "That big statue of whoever" : material commemoration and narrative in the Niagara Region / Russell Johnston and Micheal Ripmeester -- Placing the displaced worker : narrating place in deindustrializing Sturgeon Falls, Ontario / Steven High -- Capital queers : social memory and queer place(s) in Cold War Ottawa / Patrizia Gentile -- Archive and myth : the changing memoryscape of Japanese Canadian internment camps / Kirsten Emiko McAllister -- Immersed : landscaping the past at Lake Minnewanka / Matthew Evenden -- Finding the view : landscape, place, and colour slide photography in southern Alberta / James Opp -- Complicating the picture : place and memory between representation and reflection / Joan M. Schwartz |
| Summary |
A fascinating book that situates local places and local expressions of public memory such as statues, photographs, and oral stories at the centre of identity formation in twentieth-century Canada and beyond |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Canada
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Human geography -- Canada
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Geography -- Social aspects -- Canada
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Civilization
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Collective memory
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Geography -- Social aspects
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Human geography
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| SUBJECT |
Canada -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019288
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| Subject |
Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walsh, John C., 1969-
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Opp, James William
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| ISBN |
9780774818421 |
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0774818425 |
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1283335662 |
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9781283335669 |
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