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

Irwin, Jane, 1941-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2007.

Description:

320 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.

ISBN:

9781554071463
1554071461

Subject:

Sepulchral monuments Canada History.
Cemeteries Canada History.
Cemeteries Canada Pictorial works.
Architecture Canada History.
Cimetières Canada Histoire.
Cimetières Canada Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture Canada Histoire.
Architecture
Cemeteries
Sepulchral monuments
Canada

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works

Added entries:

De Visser, John.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 256495
Call No.: NA6153 .I79 2007
Status: Available

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