Founding fathers : the celebration of Champlain and Laval in the streets of Quebec, 1878-1908 / Ronald Rudin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudin, Ronald, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635--Anniversaries, etc.

Champlain, Samuel de.

Laval, François de, 1623-1708--Anniversaries, etc.

Laval, François de.

Québec (Québec)--Anniversaries, etc.

Québec (Québec).

Québec (Québec)--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Based largely on the archival documents left behind by the lay and ecclesiastical leaders who organized the celebrations of Champion and Laval, Ronald Rudin's study describes the complicated process of staging these spectacles. The vast array of leaders - lay and clerical, French- and English-speaking - rarely saw eye to eye about either the form or the goal of commemorative celebration. Accordingly, the tens of thousands who came out to view these affairs witnessed events with numerous messages. An examination of the four spectacles, which took place over a period of thirty years, provides an opportunity to view both changes in the nature of commemorative celebrations across the western world and tensions within Canadian society."--Jacket

Contents:

The discovery and display of Mgr de Laval, 1877-1878

A monument for Champlain, 1879-1898

Immortalizing Laval, 1878-1908

Champlain's tercentenary?

epilogue: Champlain and Laval beyond the summer of 1908.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-02273-3

9786612022739

1-4426-7502-0

OCLC:

666912505