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Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980

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Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario throughout the enjoy of its inhabitants, especially people who took an active role within 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.

Examining the grand narratives of colonial Ontario – the Loyalists, the War of 1812, and the creation of settler society – Cecilia Morgan argues that place played crucial role in shaping memory and narrative in locations such as Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Six Nations territory on the Grand River, and the Mohawk community at Tyendinaga. Illuminating the pivotal role of ladies and Indigenous other people in historical commemoration and uncovering the existence of a full of life and interconnected circle of historians and heritage activists in overdue nineteenth and twentieth-century Ontario, Creating Colonial Pasts is a virtuoso study of history-making.

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