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Inventing the Loyalists : The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts /
Inventing the Loyalists traces the evolution of the Loyalist tradition from the Loyalists' arrival in Upper Canada in 1784 until the present. It explores how the Loyalist tradition was produced, established, and maintained, delineates the roles particular social groups and localities played in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- 1 'Chiefly landholders, farmers, and others': The Loyalist Reality
- 2 'An ancestry of which any people might be proud': Official History, the Vernacular Past, and the Shaping of the Loyalist Tradition at Mid-Century
- 3 'Loyalism is not dead in Adolphustown': Community Factionalism and the Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Celebrations of 1884
- 4 'A sacred trust': The 1884 Toronto, Niagara, and Six Nations Loyalist Centennial Celebrations and the Politics of Commemoration
- 5 'Fairy tales in the guise of history': The Loyalists in Ontario Publications, 1884�19186 'Object lessons': Loyalist Monuments and the Creation of Usable Pasts
- 7 'A further and more enduring mark of honour': The Middle Class and the United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896�1914
- Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- I: The Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Committee, 1884
- II: The Committee of Management of the 1884 Toronto Loyalist Centennial Celebrations
- III: General Membership, United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896�1913: Sex, Religious Affiliation, Political Affiliation, OccupationIV: Officers, United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896�1913: Sex, Religious Affiliation, Political Affiliation, Occupation
- V: Membership: United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896�1916
- NOTES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PICTURE CREDITS
- INDEX
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