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Family Ties includes new and interesting research that advances our understanding of how house museums function to create a unified and unifying memory of a Canada that never was. Anne Dymond, University of Lethbridge

... a pithy and insightful examination into the ways that history is constructed and retold in house museums in Canada. Family Ties makes an excellent contribution to the understanding [and] usefully expands scholarship on the role of cultural institutions Family Ties includes new and interesting research that advances our understanding of how house museums function to create a unified and unifying memory of a Canada that never was. Anne Dymond, University of Lethbridge A thoughtful, well-written book that skillfully navigates across a number of areas of inquiry, Family Ties presents new ways of thinking about ` living history' and the formation and construction of Canadian identity through these highly charged political spaces. Keri Cronin, Brock University

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Andrea Terry is a historian of Canadian art specializing in critical museum studies and public history. She lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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