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Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario through the experience of its inhabitants, especially those who took an active role in the preservation and writing of Ontario's colonial past.

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'Morgan's study provides a roadmap for others to explore underutilized collections stored within the local archives across the province-eastern, western, southern, and northern-and their unexplored webs of connections. -- Ross Fair Ontario History, Autumn 2016

Table of Contents
Introduction: Pulling on Threads: Unravelling Histories and Historians Chapter One: Books and Mortar: Janet Carnochan's Historical Town Chapter Two: "To Turn the Light on the Other Side": History and the Six Nations Chapter Three: "Among the Six Nations": Celia B. File and the Politics of Memory, History, and Home Chapter Four: "Where Nature Had Joined Hands with Man": History, Tourism, and Landscape in Niagara-on-the-Lake Conclusion: Mending the Threads of the Past

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 13 July 2015
      ISBN-13 9781442648371
      978-1442648371
      ISBN-10 1442648376

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario through the experience of its inhabitants, especially those who took an active role in the preservation and writing of Ontario's colonial past.

      Trade Review
      'Morgan's study provides a roadmap for others to explore underutilized collections stored within the local archives across the province-eastern, western, southern, and northern-and their unexplored webs of connections. -- Ross Fair Ontario History, Autumn 2016

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Pulling on Threads: Unravelling Histories and Historians Chapter One: Books and Mortar: Janet Carnochan's Historical Town Chapter Two: "To Turn the Light on the Other Side": History and the Six Nations Chapter Three: "Among the Six Nations": Celia B. File and the Politics of Memory, History, and Home Chapter Four: "Where Nature Had Joined Hands with Man": History, Tourism, and Landscape in Niagara-on-the-Lake Conclusion: Mending the Threads of the Past

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