Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National

Celebrating CanadaCommemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols\nAuthor(s): Raymond B. Blake, Mathew Hayday\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442649811, 978-1442649811\nSynopsis\nPopular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canadas political, social, or cultural development were celebrated. \n\n The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate.