Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts
ISBN: 9781442676299
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: United Empire loyalists -- Ontario -- Historiography; Ontario -- Social life and customs; Ontario -- Historiography;

Showing that the past is often written into present concerns, and that many groups in Ontario, both powerful and disempowered, have invoked the experience of the Loyalists, Knowles significantly revises earlier interpretations of the Loyalist tradition.


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Norman J. Knowles is Professor of History at St. Mary's University in Calgary, Alberta.

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