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| Title: | Majesty in Canada
: Essays on the Role of Royalty |
| Author: | Colin Coates (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1550025864 : 9781550025866 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illlus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Weight: | .448 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - February 2006 |
| List Price: | 17 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Biography: royalty: Canada |
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.
Introduction: Majesty in Canada; The Invention of Tradition?: The Royal Tours of 1860 and 1901 to Canada; Dreaming of the Princess: Love, Subversion and the Rituals of Empire in British Columbia, 1882; The Indians and the Crown: Aboriginal Memories of Royal Promises in Pacific Canada; Governor General Grey's "Little Scheme": Majesty in Canada; "All This Fuss and Feathers": Politicians, Plutocrats and Changing Canadian Attitudes to Honours; A Not Unwilling Subject: Canada and Her Queen; Glorifying and Exporting French Kinship: Political and Legal Models in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Problems of Precedence in Louis XIV's New France; In the Name of the King: The Monarchical Atmosphere of French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758; "The Rising Star That Cheers the Scene": The Emerging Image of Queen Victoria in English Canada, 1837-1849; The Royal Family in Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction; "Unreal But Very Necessary": The Canadian Monarchy in the Novels of Robertson Davies.
