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A kingdom of the mind : how the Scots helped make Canada / edited by Peter E. Rider and Heather McNabb.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 20.
- McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scots--Canada--History--Congresses.
- Scots.
- Canada--History--Congresses.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.
- Contents:
- The Scots' imaging of Canada / Edward J. (Ted) Cowan
- Exiles or entrepreneurs? : snapshots of the Scots in Canada / Marjory Harper
- A man's a man because of that : the Scots in the Canadian military experience / H. P. Klepak
- The curious tale of the Scots and the fur trade : an historiographical account / J. M. Bumsted
- Sojourners in the snow? : the Scots in business in nineteenth-century Canada / Douglas McCalla
- Thistles in the north : the direct and indirect Scottish influence on James Bay Cree material culture / Cath Oberholtzer
- Aspects of Scottish-Canadian material culture : heart brooches and Scottish pottery / George R. Dalgleish
- A Scottish-born silversmith in Montreal : Robert Cruikshank / Rene Villeneuve
- "Bonnie Lassies" and a "coat of many colours" : highland-inspired clothing at the McCord Museum / Eileen Stack
- Sir William Logan and Sir J. W. Dawson : Victorian geology as Scottish science in a new world environment / Suzanne Zeller
- The seed, the soil, and the climate : the Scottish influence on Canadian medical education and practice, 1775-1875 / Jock Murray; Janet Murray
- A scout of the past : Ramsay Traquair and the legacy of the national art survey of Scotland in Quebec / Irena Murray
- Scottish identity and British loyalty in early-nineteenth-century Montreal / Gillian I. Leitch
- "In the hallowed name of religion" : Scots and public education in nineteenth-century Montreal / Roderick MacLeod
- Butcher, baker, cabinetmaker? : a view of Montreal's Scottish immigrant community from 1835 to 1865 / Heather McNabb.
- Notes:
- "The essays that comprise this volume are based on papers presented at a colloquium held in Montreal at the McCord Museum of Canadian History on 9-11 May 2002"--P. xxi.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-8414-5
- 1-282-86686-9
- 9786612866869
- 0-7735-7641-X
- OCLC:
- 923234384
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