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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gordon, Alan

Titel

Marshalling Memory: A Historiographical Biography of Ernest Alexander Cruikshank

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Canadian studies, 2015-09, Vol.49 (3), p.23-54

Ort / Verlag

Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• E.A. Cruikshank was one of Canada’s most influential and respected historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As chairman of Canada’s Historic Sites and Monuments Board for 20 years, he played a central role in constructing Canadian historical memory. In this sense, Cruikshank’s historical works reveal the mutual interplay of historical research and public memory in framing national sentiment; yet, although he had a national reputation, Cruikshank was primarily a local historian who translated local Niagara sentiments into a national history, principally through his interest in the War of 1812. Traces of his influence can still be seen. What is most striking, though, is that sympathy for Cruikshank’s vision has persisted even into this century, as the messages surrounding Canada’s official commemoration of the War of 1812’s bicentennial suggest. Thus his works continue to be instructive for understanding how history and memory reinforce one another.