The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium
The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium

Author: Frank Tierney

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0776617303

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked. His letters, his historical books, the Club papers and Sam Slick sketches are all included in these valuable and lively criticisms.

Nova Scotia's Massachusetts
Nova Scotia's Massachusetts

Author: George A. Rawlyk

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1973-05-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0773584048

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This book is primarily concerned with describing and attempting to account for, first, the continuing economic hammerlock Massachusetts had during most of the period from 1630 to 1784 over the neighbouring colony and, second, the various military thrusts sent from New England to the region to the northeast.

In the Province of History
In the Province of History

Author: Ian McKay

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2010-05-18

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0773583319

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Using archival sources, novels, government reports, and works on tourism and heritage, Ian McKay and Robin Bates look at how state planners, key politicians, and cultural figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long-time premier Angus L. Macdonald, and novelist Thomas Raddall were all instrumental in forming "tourism/history." The authors argue that Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline - on the brutal British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia - became a template a new kind of profit-making history that exalted whiteness and excluded ethnic minorities, women, and working class movements. A remarkable look at the intersection of politics, leisure, and the presentation of public history, In the Province of History is a revealing account of how a region has both used and distorted its own past.