The politics of Pageantry -- York U. award-winning historian Viv Nelles interprets the Act of Commemoration on the Eve of Canada Day.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 June 2000-YORK UNIVERSITY: The politics of Pageantry -- York U. award-winning historian Viv Nelles interprets the Act of Commemoration on the Eve of Canada Day (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28062000 TORONTO -- In the run-up to Canada Day 2000, York University historian Viv Nelles takes us back to an all-but-forgotten celebration in 1908 of the 300th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's founding of Quebec City.

In the details of the ritualized parades, balls, ceremonies and festivities of the Quebec tercentenary, he reveals a portent of what Canada and Canadians have become. Nelles, who has just won the prestigious Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history for The Art of Nation Building: Pageantry...

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