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Placing memory and remembering place in Canada  Cover Image E-book E-book

Placing memory and remembering place in Canada

Opp, James William. (Added Author). Walsh, John C., 1969- (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780774818414
  • ISBN: 9780774818407
  • ISBN: 0774818417
  • ISBN: 0774818409
  • ISBN: 9781283335669
  • ISBN: 9780774818421
  • ISBN: 1283335662
  • ISBN: 0774818425
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, �2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:january.22
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Multi-User.
Canada
Canada -- Civilisation
Canada -- Civilization
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
Human geography
Geography -- Social aspects
Collective memory
Civilization
M�emoire collective -- Canada
G�eographie -- Aspect social -- Canada
G�eographie humaine -- Canada
Human geography -- Canada
Geography -- Social aspects -- Canada
Collective memory -- Canada
Genre: Electronic books.

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