Overview

Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada maps a fascinating terrain in memory studies by shifting the focus from nation and empire to local places that sit at the intersection of memory making and identity formation – main streets, city squares, village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the rural landscape. While offering a unique perspective on the politics of place and memory across differing chronologies and geographies, the first part of the book, ""Commemorations,"" traces how local expressions of memory such as celebrations, museums, statues, postcards, and plaques have contributed to a sense of place and belonging in twentieth-century Canada. The second part, ""Inscriptions,"" in turn explores how ordinary Canadians have embedded their memories of place in oral stories, photographs, and the landscape itself. With its focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, these essays argue for an understanding of place as imagined, made, claimed, fought for, and defended – always in a state of becoming.

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Author:   James Opp ,  John C. Walsh
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780774818407

ISBN 10:   0774818409
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   01 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Local Acts of Placing and Remembering / James Opp and John C. Walsh Part 1: Commemorations: Marking Memories of Place 1 Performing Public Memory and Re-Placing Home in the Ottawa Valley, 1900-58 / John C. Walsh 2 History and the Six Nations: The Dynamics of Commemoration, Colonial Space, and Colonial Knowledge / Cecilia Morgan 3 Edmonton’s Jasper Avenue: Public Ritual, Heritage, and Memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa 4 The Highland Heart in Nova Scotia: Place and Memory at the Highland Village Museum / Alan Gordon 5 “That Big Statue of Whoever”: Material Commemoration and Narrative in the Niagara Region / Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester Part 2: Inscriptions: Recovering Places of Memory 6 Placing the Displaced Worker: Narrating Place in Deindustrializing Sturgeon Falls, Ontario /Steven High 7 Capital Queers: Social Memory and Queer Place(s) in Cold War Ottawa / Patrizia Gentile 8 Archive and Myth: The Changing Memoryscape of Japanese Canadian Internment Camps / Kirsten Emiko McAllister 9 Immersed: Landscaping the Past at Lake Minnewanka / Matthew Evenden 10 Finding the View: Landscape, Place, and Colour Slide Photography in Southern Alberta / James Opp Part 3: Afterword 11 Complicating the Picture: Place and Memory between Representation and Reflection / Joan M. Schwartz Index

Reviews

The many different angles from which the contributors approach their subjects provide the oral historian with valuable methodological insight, showing how photographs, monuments, and public spaces can become catalysts for inquiry into human memory and the meaning of that memory. -- Keith Ludden, University of Maine at Augusta Oral History Review

The many different angles from which the contributors approach their subjects provide the oral historian with valuable methodological insight, showing how photographs, monuments, and public spaces can become catalysts for inquiry into human memory and the meaning of that memory. -- Keith Ludden, University of Maine at Augusta * Oral History Review *

Author Information

James Opp and John C. Walsh are in the Department of History at Carleton University and are research associates at the Carleton Centre for Public History. Contributors: Matthew Evenden, Patrizia Gentile, Alan Gordon, Steven High, Russell Johnston, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Cecilia Morgan, James Opp, Michael Ripmeester, Joan M. Schwartz, Frances Swyripa, and John C. Walsh.

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