{"product_id":"creating-colonial-pasts-history-memory-and-commemoration-in-southern-ontario-1860-1980-paperback-softback-9781442626157","title":"Creating Colonial Pasts; History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442626157","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCreating Colonial Pasts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCecilia Morgan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442626157\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 July 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 53 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Morgan\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Ross Fair (Ontario History, Autumn 2016)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreating Colonial Pasts\u003c\/em\u003e 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: the founder of the Niagara Historical Society, Janet Carnochan; twentieth-century Six Nations historians Elliott Moses and Milton Martin; and Celia B. File, high-school teacher and historian of Mary Brant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining the grand narratives of colonial Ontario – the Loyalists, the War of 1812, and the creation of settler society – Cecilia Morgan argues that place played an important role in shaping memory and narrative in locations such as Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Six Nations territory at the Grand River, and the Mohawk community at Tyendinaga. Illuminating the pivotal role of women and Indigenous people in historical commemoration and uncovering the existence of a lively and interconnected circle of historians and heritage activists in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Ontario, \u003cem\u003eCreating Colonial Pasts\u003c\/em\u003e is a virtuoso study of history-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Pulling on Threads: Unravelling Histories and Historians\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Books and Mortar: Janet Carnochan’s Historical Town\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: “To Turn the Light on the Other Side”: History and the Six Nations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: “Among the Six Nations”: Celia B. File and the Politics of Memory, History, and Home\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: “Where Nature Had Joined Hands with Man”: History, Tourism, and Landscape in Niagara-on-the-Lake\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Mending the Threads of the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588160516376,"sku":"9781442626157","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/creating-colonial-pasts-history-memory-and-commemoration-in-southern-ontario-1860-1980-paperback-softback-9781442626157","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}