Commemorating Canada

Cecilia Morgan is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the author of Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850–1990s (2016), as well as Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860–1980 (2015).

‘This is a book that should be widely read…All who are interested in Canadian history will benefit from this wide-reaching study.’- Tim Cook (Canada’s History October-November 2016) ‘This will be a useful resource for teaching how history has been used and abused for nationalist and other purposes.’- J.I. Little (Canadian Historical Review vol 98:01:2017) ‘Anyone interested in teaching students about how history of education can reveal prevailing contemporary attitudes would do well to assign this book.’- Alan Gordon (Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’education, Spring 2017) "Commemorating Canada contributes to the series Themes in Canadian History, which aims at undergraduate readers by filling the gap between specialist monographs and textbooks. Cecilia Morgan pays careful attention to the ways particular communities have fronted their versions of history, from Roman Catholic francophones in Quebec, to First Nations, to African Canadians. She is also attentive to gender roles."- Margery Fee (Canadian Literature No. 235) "Commemorating Canada offers a deep and thoroughly informative history of what collective remembering in Canada has been in the past and invites attention to what it is yet to become."- Scott Herder, University of Toronto (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)

• 1. Introduction2. History and Memory, 1750s–1870s3. The Heyday of Public Commemorations in Canada: 1870s–1920s4. Remembering Canada at War5. Commemoration, Historical Preservation, and the Canadian State6. Shaping History through Tourism7. Teaching the Nation Its History: Schoolchildren and the Canadian Past8. Epilogue