topic:"Memory" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional messages that commonly reflect colonialist visions of the past. Throughout western Canada there are vivid examples of original and official views of what constitutes a national narrative. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler colonial histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous perceptions of the past confront the conventions of settler colonial history and denote the fluid cultural perspectives that must define the shifting ground of heritage space. Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a Parks Canada historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a confident and progressive national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: Landscapes of Memory in Prairie Canada ; Memory Hooks: Commemorating Indigenous Cultural Landscapes ; National Dreams: Commemorating the Fur Trade in Manitoba ; "We Came. We Toiled. God Blessed": Settler Colonialism and Constructing Authenticity ; Contested Space: Commemorating Indigenous Places of Resistance ; Heritage Place: The Function of Modernity, Gender, and Sexuality ; History, Memory, and the Heritage Discourse

ISBN: 9780887559266

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 08.1 C83a

Collection: Archives Library

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Civilian internment in canada : histories and legacies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 08.1 H58c

Responsibility: Edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 414 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; Internment Camps; Ukrainians; Japanese; Memory; Public History

Abstract: Civilian Internment in Canada examines abuse of the civil rights and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural communities, bequeathing a complex legacy for survivors and their descendants. Despite the well-known impounding of tens of thousands of Japanese, Ukrainians, assorted eastern Europeans, Germans, and Italians as "enemy aliens" during the two World Wars, civilian internment in this country has not been widely discussed, particularly in comparative ways. Indeed, there has been a propensity to sweep these events under the proverbial rug, keeping them out of the national discourse. Civilian Internment in Canada brings together senior scholars in the field of internment and civil liberties studies with emerging scholars, graduate students, community members, teachers, public historians, artists, former internees, descendants of internees, and redress activists to examine the processes and consequences of civilian internment during real and perceived wartime contexts, ranging from the Great War to the Cold War to the "War on Terror." It demonstrates the ways in which "shared authority" between scholars and subjects can both reshape our understanding of crucial episodes in Canada's history and bring a sense of vibrancy and immediacy to the all-too current question of civil liberties and minority rights in today's security state. -- from back cover

Contents: The rule of law and human rights in the twenty-first century / Dennis Edney ; Human rights and the politics of freedom: civilian internment in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Jodi Giesbrecht ; Reinserting radicalism: Canada's first national internment operations, the Ukrainian left, and the politics of redress / Kassandra Luciuk ; Collateral damage: the defence of Canada regulations, civilian internement, ethnicity, and left-wing institutions / Jim Mochoruk ; An unprecedented dichotomy: impacts and consequences of Serbian internment in Canada during the Great War / Marinel Mandres ; The ex-minister and the fascist: a tale of two RCMP informants during the Second World War / Travis Tomchuk ; "Camp boys": privacy and the sexual self / Christine Whitehouse ; "Likely to be hampered and so she prepared for the worst": far left women and political incarceration during the Second World War / Rhonda L. Hinther ; Informal internment: Japanese Canadian farmers in southern Alberta, 1941-1945 / Aya Fujiwara ; Destroying the myth of quietism: strikes, riots, protest, and resistance in Japanese internment / Mikhail Bjorge ; Japanese Canadian internment: a personal account / Grace Eiko Thomson ; Anecdote and document: the internment experience of Rolf Schultze and Dorothy Caine / Clemence Schultze ; Ukrainian internment during the Second World War: the case of the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association and Peter Prokopchak / Myron Momryk ; The New Brunswick Internment Camp Museum: preserving the history of Internment Camp B-70 / Ed Caissie and Todd Caissie ; Exhibiting contentious topics: finding a place for the internment violin in the Canadian History Hall / Emily Cuggy and Kathleen Ogilvie ; Civilian internment and the impact of war: legacy and public history / Sharon Reilly ; The paradox of survival: Jewish refugees interned in Canada, 1940-1943 / Paula J. Draper ; Narrating internment, narrating Canada: wartime experiences of German merchant seamen / Judith Kestler ; A numbers game?: stories of suffering in Italian Canadian internment in the Second World War / Franca Iacovetta ; The internment of Japanese Canadians: a human rights violation / Art Miki

ISBN: 9780887558450

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 08.1 H58c

Collection: Archives Library

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Memory

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25717

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2018

Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia

Call Number: 00 T63m

Responsibility: Edited by Philippe Tortell, Mark Turin, Margot Young

Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Memory; History; culture; Pyschology

Abstract: This book examines the character and relevance of remembrance, inviting readers to think creatively and deeply about the ways that memories are transmitted, recorded, and distorted through time and space. Ranging from molecular genetics and astrophysics to law and Indigenous oral histories, the essays draw from a diverse group of contributors to capture different perspectives on memory. Reflecting upon memory in engaging and unexpected ways, this collection offers an interdisciplinary roadmap for exploring how, why, and when we remember. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction -- Healing through culture -- Ecological amnesia -- Climate tales -- Making ruins -- Timothy Findley's the wars -- Echoes across generations -- Reconciliation pole -- First light -- Corroboration -- Ships at sea -- Constructed futures -- Artistic silhouettes -- Material past -- Critical periods and early experience -- Releasing trauma -- A fishy story -- Reconstructing the past -- Documents of dissent -- Anthems -- In defence of forgetting -- Monuments in stone and colour -- Microcosmos -- Time, oral tradition, and technology -- Global 1918 -- Reweaving the past -- The digital shoebox -- Indigenous storytelling -- Self, lost and found.

ISBN: 9781775276609

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 00 T63m

Collection: Archives Library

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