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Picturesque Quebec; A sequel to Quebec past and present
Reproduction of the original.
Souvenirs et réminiscences/Glimpses & Reminiscences
James McPherson Le Moine (1825-1912), avocat et fonctionnaire, a consacré ses loisirs à l’ornithologie, l’histoire naturelle, l’horticulture, l’archéologue, la littérature et l’histoire. Passionné pour Québec et son histoire et son histoire, et écologiste avant la lettre, il fut dans plusieurs domaines un précurseur. Pendant plus de cinquante ans, son domaine de Spencer Grange, à Sillery, fut un carrefour de rencontres et d’échanges entre des gens de différents milieux et de différents courants idéologiques et politiques. Ses souvenirs et réminiscences d’enfance, de jeunesse, d’âge d’homme et de vieillesse favorisent une rencontre ultime avec ce témoin privi...
Making Public Pasts
Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about structures of power. It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities. The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "others" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy. Rather than acknowledging a single past, Montreal's many publics made and celebrated many public memories.
Maple Leaves
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