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

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This fascinating book maps a new 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.

About the Author

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.

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.
*Oral History Review*