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category: History
published: Jan 2010
ISBN:9780774814423
publisher: UBC Press

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land

Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85

by Gillian Poulter

tagged: 19th century, history, social history, post-confederation (1867-), customs & traditions, pre-confederation (to 1867)
Description

How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal come to think of themselves as “native Canadian”? This richly illustrated work reveals that colonists adopted, then appropriated, Aboriginal and French Canadian activities such as hunting, lacrosse, snowshoeing, and tobogganing. In the process, they constructed visual icons that were recognized at home and abroad as distinctly “Canadian.” This new Canadian nationality mimicked indigenous characteristics but ultimately rejected indigenous players, and championed the interests of white, middle-class, Protestant males who used their newly acquired identity to dominate the political realm. English Canadian identity was not formed solely by emulating what was British; this book shows that it gained ground by usurping what was indigenous in a foreign land.

About the Author

Gillian Poulter

Contributor Notes

Gillian Poulter is an associate professor of Canadian history at Acadia University.

Editorial Review

It is a rare pleasure to have to wait until the final half-dozen pages to find anything to quibble about. The quality of poulter’s writing is uniformly excellent and jargon-free.

— H-Canada
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