{"product_id":"celebrating-canada-9781442627147","title":"Celebrating Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular 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 \u003ci\u003eCelebrating Canada\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 annive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  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. Schwar   12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island’s Centennial Decade       Matthew McRae   Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408354812247,"sku":"9781442627147","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442627147.jpg?v=1730502566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/celebrating-canada-9781442627147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}