Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Canada prides itself on being a multicultural nation, but the stories of people who are not "Canadian-Canadians," as defined by Eva Mackey, are underrepresented in archives. This project investigates three local archives and one online archive in Peterborough, Ontario, employing Rita Dhamoon's practice of "accounts of meaning-making" to understand how archives… more Full Text: MY CANADIAN STORY: MULTICULTURALISM AND MEANING-MAKING IN LOCAL ARCHIVES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …