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Canada and the Empires of the Past
Author(s) -
Perry Adele
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/1478-0542.008
Subject(s) - historiography , queen (butterfly) , crowds , empire , skepticism , history , monarchy , ancient history , political science , archaeology , law , philosophy , ecology , theology , computer security , hymenoptera , politics , computer science , biology
Abstract Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip paid a visit to the prairie city where I live last month, and people stayed away in droves. Across the country, the tour met with small crowds and sceptical assessments of the monarchy's future; there are many regional peculiarities in modern Canada, but disinterest in imperial pageantry apparently is not among them. This may not provide an answer to that shopworn question of North American historiography – namely why Britain's northern colonies did not share the revolutionary sentiments of their southern neighbours – but does hint at a distinct Canadian response to the innumerable disappointments of empire.