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Old Canadian cemeteries : places of memory / Jane Irwin ; photographs by John de Visser.

Title
Old Canadian cemeteries : places of memory / Jane Irwin ; photographs by John de Visser.
Author
Irwin, Jane, 1941-
Publication
Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors
De Visser, John.
Description
320 p. : ill.; 26 x 30 cm.
Summary
"Canada abounds in historical burial places. Once you begin noticing their presence, old cemeteries seem to be everywhere. But these important links to the past are in danger of disappearing forever. The expansion of cities and roadways reclaim valuable land, and inscriptions are worn away by weather and time. Older cemeteries may be important records of immigration, settlement, armed forces, epidemics, class and religious schisms, and upward mobility of ethnic groups. In Old Canadian Cemeteries, Jane Irwin invites the reader on a visual tour of historic cemeteries across Canada, examining such diverse topics as: burial traditions, including customs from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Ukranian, Quaker, Pioneer, Acadian, Chinese, Japanese, Inuit, First Nations and African-American cemeteries; war memorials; graveyard symbols and motifs, and their meanings; materials used in cemeteries-stone, wood, bronze and cast iron and; historic graveyard conservation." -- Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Cemeteries > Canada > History
  • Cemeteries > Canada > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Pictorial works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Acknowledgements -- Discovering historic Canadian graveyards -- Stories in old stones -- Changing burial traditions -- Ancestral ties -- Exploring Canada's historic cemeteries -- Old Canadian cemeteries : a visual tour -- National memonry -- Reading monuments -- Lasting memory -- Conserving the future of memory -- More stories in old stones -- Notes to the text -- Bibliography (p. 307-311) -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781554071463
  • 1554071461
OCLC
  • 81601399
  • SCSB-11308686
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library