Majesty in Canada : Essays on the Role of Royalty

by Coates, Colin M.

• ISBN13: 9781550025866
• ISBN10: 1550025864
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-04
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme 'Majesty in Canada'. The essays that were presented at that conference reflect the wide-ranging recognitions of the different roles that monarchs and their representatives have played in Canada. The essays examine how Canadians have understood their ties to royalty and how the regal principle formed an important part of the national identity. Royal tours, vice-regal initiatives, representations of the sovereign's power, and Canadian appeals to monarchical sentiments comprise the themes of these engaging essays, providing an up-to-date look at the historical and current personal influence of the Crown in Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Majesty in Canada	11	(7)
Colin M. Coates
TOURS
The Invention of Tradition?: The Royal Tours of 1860 and 1901 to Canada	18	(26)
Phillip Buckner
Dreaming of the Princess: Love, Subversion, and the Rituals of Empire in British Columbia, 1882	44	(24)
R.W. Sandwell
The Indians and the Crown: Aboriginal Memories of Royal Promises in Pacific Canada	68	(30)
Keith Thor Carlson
THE REGAL TOUCH
Governor General Grey's ``Little Scheme'': Majesty in Canada	98	(21)
Jennifer Salahub
``All this Fuss and Feathers'': Politicians, Plutocrats, and Changing Canadian Attitudes to Honours	119	(23)
J. Andrew Ross
A Not Unwilling Subject: Canada and Her Queen	142	(16)
Peter Trepanier
REPRESENTING THE MONARCH
Glorifying and Exporting French Kingship: Political and Legal Models in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	158	(23)
Sylvain Soleil
Problems of Precedence in Louis XIV's New France	181	(15)
Colin M. Coates
In the Name of the King: The Monarchical Atmosphere of French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713--1758	196	(22)
A.J.B. Johnston
IMAGES OF MONARCHY
``The Rising Star that Cheers the Scene'': The Emerging Image of Queen Victoria in English Canada, 1837--1849	218	(24)
Christopher Tait
The Royal Family in Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction	242	(13)
Mary Conde
``Unreal but Very Necessary'': The Canadian Monarchy in the Novels of Robertson Davies	255	(23)
L.C. Knowles
Contributors	278