Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Colin Coates, Editor

Reviews

"These essays ... reflect the different roles that, over the centuries, monarchs and their representatives have played in Canada." -- OHS Bulletin, 20061201