Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed

by Maeve Conrick (Editor), Munroe Eagles (Editor), Jane Koustas (Editor), Caitríona Ní Chasaide (Editor)

Overview

The image of the “land” is an ongoing trope in conceptions of Canada—from the national anthem and the flag to the symbols on coins—the land and nature remain linked to the Canadian sense of belonging and to the image of the nation abroad. Linguistic landscapes reflect the multi-faceted identities and cultural richness of the nations. Earlier portrayals of the land focused on unspoiled landscape, depicted in the paintings of the Group of Seven, for example. Contemporary notions of identity, belonging, and citizenship are established, contested, and legitimized within sites and institutions of public culture, heritage, and representation that reflect integration with the land, transforming landscape into landmarks. The Highway of Heroes originating at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Ontario and Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Québec are examples of landmarks that transform landscape into a built environment that endeavours to respect the land while using it as a site to commemorate, celebrate, and promote Canadian identity. Similarly in literature and the arts, the creation of the built environment and the interaction among those who share it is a recurrent theme.

This collection includes essays by Canadian and international scholars whose engagement with the theme stems from their disciplinary perspectives as well as from their personal and professional experience—rooted, at least partially, in their own sense of national identity and in their relationship to Canada.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771122030
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2017
Series:	Cultural Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Maeve Conrick is a professor and former principal of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities, University College Dublin. She has published extensively in books, journals, and edited collections in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, with particular reference to French and English. She is a former president of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland and recipient of the Prix du Québec. In 2017 she was awarded the Governor General's International Award in Canadian Studies.
Munroe Eagles is a professor of political science and the director of the Canadian Studies Academic Program at the University at Buffalo - State University of New York (UB-SUNY). His research focuses on the electoral and political geography of Canada and on Canadian–American relations. He currently serves as vice-president of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS).
Jane Koustas, professor of French at Brock University, was the Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin. She is the co-editor, with Christl Verduyn, of Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis and, with Joe Donohoe, of Robert Lepage: Théàtre sans frontières: Essays on the Dramatic Universe of Robert Lepage. She is the author of Les belles étrangères : Canadians in Paris.
Caitríona Ní Chasaide is a lecturer at Limerick Institute of Technology. Her research looks at second- and third-language acquisition from a sociolinguistic perspective. She also has a particular interest in immersion education. She is a former secretary of the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed

1. Canada: Islands, Landscapes, and Landmarks / Stephen A. Royle

2. Science at Service of Sublime Landscapes: Scientific Ecology and the Preservation of Canada’s Wilderness Landmarks in 1970s Quebec / Olivier Craig-Dupont

3. Patriotisms of the People: Understanding the Highway of Heroes as a Canadian National Landmark / Tracey Raney

4. Material Differences: Ethnic Identity and the Power of Things in Greater Sudbury / Tim Nieguth

5.  “Our Home and Native Land”: Invocations of the Land in the 2011 Canadian Federal Election / Shauna Wilton

6. Memorializing an Imagined Past: Evangeline and the Acadian Deportation / Jane Moss

7. Time and Space in the Nationalism of Thomas D'Arcy McGee / David A. Wilson

8. Contesting Historical Space: The Campaign to Have Grosse Île Designated a National Historic Site with the Irish Dimension as Its Main Theme | Pádraig Breandán Ó Laighin

9. Environmental Exposure: Two films “de légitime défense”: Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie: L’erreur boréale / Forest Alert (1999) and Trou Story / The Hole Story (2011) / Rachel Killick

10. Postcolonial Territorial Landmarks within Canada’s Multiculturalism: The Myth of Virility / Édith-Anne Pageot

11. Mapping the Migrant Experience in the Works of Gabrielle Roy / Julie Rodgers

12. The Green Fields of Canada - Forgotten! A Reappraisal of Irish traditional Music History in Canada / Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin

13. The Contemporary Powwow in Eastern Canada: A Practice of Gathering / Dalie Giroux and Amélie-Anne Mailhot