 | Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal''s Public Memories, 1891-1930 Subjects: Canadians English-speaking -- Quebec (Province) -- Montréal -- Ethnic identity -- History; Canadians French-speaking -- Quebec (Province) -- Montréal -- Ethnic identity -- History; Canadians English-speaking -- Quebec (Province) -- Montréal -- Annivers; Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In Making Public Pasts Alan Gordon argues that the contest was fundamentally ideological, a competition between major social groups to shape perceptions of history and frame the historical consciousness of individuals. |
