FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.135
D. Johnston, M. Blackwell
{"title":"The Legacy of Peter Redpath","authors":"D. Johnston, M. Blackwell","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.138
B. Dolphin
{"title":"Gentlemanly Satisfaction: the Wellington-Winchelsea Duel of 1829","authors":"B. Dolphin","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.138","url":null,"abstract":"When, in 1829, the Duke of Wellington's government moved to pass Roman Catholic emancipation-basically the restoration of the right of British and Irish Catholics to sit in parliament-Lord Winchilsea in Ultra-Tory outrage publicly and without parliamentary immunity accused the prime minister of having treacherously plotted the destruction of the Protestant constitution. The resulting passage of arms in London's Battersea Fields, through its unusually abundant documentation, provides a singular moment of insight into not only the personal qualities of the participants, but also the political culture of the time and the decline of duelling in British society.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.139
D. Wright
{"title":"Remembering War in Imperial Canada: David Ross McCord and the McCord National Museum","authors":"D. Wright","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.139","url":null,"abstract":"David Ross McCord (1844-1930) was a man obsessed. Between the 1880s and 1920 the drive to build a national museum constituted an all-consuming obsession. The end result of his efforts is today the internationally renowned McCord Museum of Canadian History/Le Muste McCord d 'histoire canadienne. Although he amassed a collection of considerable breadth and depth, this paper focuses on one aspect of his collection: objects relating to the history of war. An ardent imperialist, McCord believed that war served a noble function in that it strengthened both individual manliness and national character. Early museum displays likewise emphasized war as a heroic and gallant affair and adhered very closely to what John Keegan terms the rhetoric of battle history. More significantly, David Ross McCord and the McCord National Museum perpetuated the Myth of the War Experience: to die for one's country is noble and right.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.142
D. Mcknight
{"title":"In Their Own Write: An Exhibition Celebrating 175 Years of McGill Authorship","authors":"D. Mcknight","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.142","url":null,"abstract":"Indeed, as the 19th century drew to a close, McGill had emerged as an institution with great promise due to the efforts of the \"Three Williams:\" William Dawson, Sir William Osler, and Sir William Peterson. Each in their own way played key roles in laying the foundation of McGill as a world-class university. As the second Millennium draws to a close the record of scholarly achievement is now secure. And yet, one thing is constant since James McGill set in motion the founding of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning in 1821, then as now, the institution now know as McGill University is beset with new challenges which strike to the very core of its existence.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.140
M. Whitehead
{"title":"A Brief Survey of Science and Scientists at McGill","authors":"M. Whitehead","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.140","url":null,"abstract":"In 1838 McGill College planned its Chemical Apparatus room; it could have been one small step for science but unfortunately the room was never built. The first science subject taught at McGill was meteorology, introduced in 1833 and entrenched when Smallwood built his observatory in 1846. In 1843 there was an expectation that the Arts Faculty would replace the Medical Faculty in teaching chemistry to medical students, but this did not occur. Nevertheless, Chemistry earned a high profile when in 1846 Thomas Christie won the Chemistry Prize in Medicine.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.136
R. Michel
{"title":"Floreat Plutoria: Satirical Fiction about McGill","authors":"R. Michel","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.136","url":null,"abstract":"McGill has appeared in many kinds offiction but nowhere more strikingly than in satirical writing. Stephen Leacock, Regis Messac, William Weintraub, Mordecai Richler, Eileen Fitzgerald, Dany Laferridre, Brian Moore and others mixed reality and imagination to focus on McGill from unusual angles, in detail or just in passing. Drawing on personal blends of humour, affection, fantasy and criticism, each writer created a unique vision or glimpse of McGill and its students, staff and community. The results are as diverse as the attitudes and dreams which McGill evokes.","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FontanusPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.26443/fo.v9i.144
R. Michel
{"title":"An Archival Testament: the Papers of Sir William Dawson","authors":"R. Michel","doi":"10.26443/fo.v9i.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26443/fo.v9i.144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81279,"journal":{"name":"Fontanus","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69322773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}