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Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada

Online

Robert Coutts, author of Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, he argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. He shows how the process of commemoration often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a conventional and conservative national narrative.

Robert Coutts worked as an historian with Parks Canada for over thirty years, researching historic sites throughout western and northern Canada. He is the co-author of the book Voices from Hudson Bay: Cree Stories from York Factory and is the editor of the journal Prairie History. This is an online presentation. A Zoom link to attend will be sent when you register.

Date:
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Time:
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Audience:
  For Adults  
Categories:
  Genealogy & Local History  
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This is an online event. A Zoom link to attend will be sent when you register.
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