Acts of Remembrance: Canadian Great War Memory and the Public Funerals of Sir Arthur Currie and Canon F.G. Scott

2016/01/01 by Melissa Davidson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Canadian Identity and History #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies #Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis #Canon #Spanish Civil War #History #World War II #First world war #Sociology #Literature #Art #Ancient history #Archaeology

paper · pdf · doi:10.4000/eccs.688

openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27

Abstract

Canadian public memory of the Great War was initially fragmented, centered around specific locations and events, before becoming more nationalistic in the 1930s. After the outbreak of the Second World War the public memory became more distant still from the experience of 1914-1918 although specific commemorations of the war remained most meaningful to those who had been directly affected. This paper looks briefly at Armistice/Remembrance Day rituals and uses the public funerals of two Great War heroes, General Sir Arthur Currie (1933) and Canon F.G. Scott (1944), to illustrate the changes in Canadian public memory after 1918.

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• Arthur Currie [wikipedia]

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