| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 : Dynamics of commemoration, colonial space, and colonial knowledge / Cecilia Morgan -- Edmonton's Jasper Avenue : public ritual, heritage, and memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa -- 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 : 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Canada.
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Collective memory. |
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Canada. |
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Human geography -- Canada.
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Human geography. |
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Geography -- Social aspects -- Canada.
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Geography -- Social aspects. |
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Canada -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Geography. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Walsh, John C., 1969-
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Opp, James William.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Placing memory and remembering place in Canada. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010 9780774818407 (DLC) 2010502387 (OCoLC)637441391 |
| ISBN |
9780774818421 (electronic book) |
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0774818425 (electronic book) |
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1283335662 |
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9781283335669 |
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9780774818407 |
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0774818409 |
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9780774818414 |
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0774818417 |
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