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Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist City: Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883–1934 Greg Marquis Document generated on 09/26/2021 8:14 a.m. Urban History Review Revue d'histoire urbaine Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist City: Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883–1934 Greg Marquis Volume 33, Number 1, Fall 2004 Article abstract Historical consciousness in Saint John, New Brunswick, at present is URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1015672ar fragmented. From the 1880s until the mid-1930s, public history was dominated DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1015672ar by memories of the 1780s Loyalist founders of the city. This article examines the creation of Loyalist historiography by writers such as Hannay and See table of contents Raymond, and public commemoration of the Loyalists in a city where most of the population was of non-Loyalist descent. Views of the Loyalists were neither monolithic nor unchanging, but public celebrations stressed their triumph Publisher(s) over adversity and contributions to provincial, national, and Imperial progress. The 1904 De Monts-Champlain Tercentenary and the 1927 Irish Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine Famine commemoration were tentative challenges to the dominant historical discourse. The founding of a provincial museum between 1929 and 1934 ISSN signalled a shift in public history away from an amateur, voluntary approach to historical knowledge production based on professionals working for the 0703-0428 (print) state. 1918-5138 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Marquis, G. (2004). Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist City: Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883–1934. Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 33(1), 24–33. https://doi.org/10.7202/1015672ar All Rights Reserved © Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 2004 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist City: Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883—1934 Greg Marquis Abstract Loyalist Days festival of the 1970s has been surpassed by other 2 Historical consciousness in Saint John, New Brunswick, celebrations. Two events now compete for public support, the at present is fragmented. From the 1880s until the mid- traditional Loyalist Day (May 18) and a broader Loyalist heritage 3 4 1950s, public history was dominated by memories of the festival. In the 1980s Saint John rediscovered its Irish roots. 1780s Loyalist founders of the city. This article examines Other heritage activists have promoted commemoration of the the creation of Loyalist historiography by writers such port's rich shipbuilding and shipping history as exemplified by as Hannay and Raymond, and public commemoration of the famous vessel Marco Polo, or the late Victorian architecture the Loyalists in a city where most of the population was of the central business district, rebuilt following the Great Fire of of non-Loyalist descent. Views of the Loyalists were nei• 1877. The emergence of a francophone middle class has rekin• ther monolithic nor unchanging, but public celebrations dled interest on the pre-deportation Acadian past, notably the 5 stressed their triumph over adversity and contributions site of 17th-century Fort la Tour. In addition to Irish and fran• to provincial, national, and Imperial progress. The 1904 cophone Saint John, there has been a surge of interest in other De Monts-Champlain Tercentenary and the 1927 Irish minority cultures, and in once closely knit neighbourhoods such Famine commemoration were tentative challenges to the as the East End. Historical consciousness in New Brunswick's 6 dominant historical discourse. The founding of a provin• largest city is fragmented and adrift. cial museum between 1929 and 1934 signalled a shift in The city's public history was once more homogeneous, domi• public history away from an amateur, voluntary approach nated by anglophone, Protestant, Imperialist, and Canadian to historical knowledge production based on professionals nationalist tributes to the Loyalists.7 By the early 20th century working for the state. the Loyalists merited an entire week of activities in Saint John, and their legacy was a powerful barrier to competing visions Résumé of the past. Yet views of the Loyalists were neither monolithic nor unchanging. Rather, they reflected changing political and Aujourd'hui à Saint John, au Nouveau-Brunswick, la con• 8 science historique souffre defragmentation. Mais, des cultural circumstances. années 1880 au milieu des années 1930, les souvenirs des This article addresses three aspects of Loyalist commemoration fondateurs loyalistes (années 1780) de la ville ont dominé in Saint John from the 1880s until the 1930s: research and pub• Vhistoire «publique ». Cet article examine la création lishing on Loyalist history, public celebrations of the Loyalists, d'une historiographie loyaliste par des auteurs comme and the founding of the provincial museum based in Saint John. Hannay et Raymond de même que la commémoration des fondateurs loyalistes dans une ville où la majorité de la Creating the Loyalist Record population était d'origine autre que loyaliste. Les opinions Although public history was dedicated to a particular vision of des loyalistes n'étaient ni monolithiques ni statiques, mais the Loyalists that began to take shape in the 1880s, Saint John les célébrations de l'époque ont souligné leur triomphe sur was not a homogeneous community. Differences between l'adversité et leur rôle vis-à-vis du progrès provincial, na• Protestants and Catholics, which extended to marriage, family tional et impérial. Le tricentenaire De Monts-Champlain de networks, schooling, and voluntary organizations resulted in a 1904 et la commémoration de la famine irlandaise de 1927 form of social apartheid.9 The city was also divided on lines of ont défié ce discours historique dominant. L'établissement class, which overlapped with ethnicity and religion. Public his• d'un musée provincial, entre 1929 et 1934, a marqué pour tory, as represented by museums, for example, usually reflected l'histoire publique un changement de direction, d'une ap• middle-class and elite concerns.10 In terms of public festivities, proche d'amateurisme et de bénévolat à une connaissance history in Saint John between the 1880s and the 1930s were historique s'appuyant sur des professionnels au service de often secondary to more immediate concerns. Large parades l'État. took place on Labour Day and Remembrance Day, and the masses preferred modern entertainment such as sports, popu• lar theatre, and motion pictures.11 Yet cultural elites (members Introduction of societies, service organizations, politicians, and journalists) Saint John, New Brunswick, is an industrial city searching for a projected a vision of local and provincial history in which the new economic foundation and identity. In recent years the mu• Loyalists dominated. And the dominant messages were triumph nicipality has suffered from an eroding industrial and tax base, (physical, moral, political, economic) and "liberty," the degree outmigration to the suburbs, and a deterioration in services and to which the Loyalists, by sewing "the seeds of empire," contrib• social capital. Giant "Loyalist men" billboards guarded the high• uted to the enlargement of British freedom.12 In 1930, the mayor way approaches to the city until 2003; in the age of inclusion, of Saint John, quoting Longfellow, went so far as to compare the slogan "Loyalist city" is no longer appropriate.1 The popular 24 Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 (Fall 2004 automne) Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist City the Loyalists to the Acadians, who had also triumphed in the In 1882, The Freeman estimated that only 20-25 per cent of the face of adversity.13 people of Saint John were descendants of the Loyalists but that they held a large part of the property in the city and county, by As in Ontario, local public history was framed within a larger virtue of the loyalty of their ancestors and "the labor of other national and international context. The major themes in English- people" (presumably the Irish).20 On the other hand, Esther Canadian historiography were responsible government and Clark Wright in the 1950s argued that many New Brunswick Dominion autonomy.14 In both cases the Loyalists played an families could trace Loyalist ancestry through the maternal ambivalent role in historical interpretations. On the positive side, line.21 the Loyalists ensured the British connection, evolution not revo• lution, parliamentary institutions, and political moderation. An The Loyalist tradition also appealed to an age when history active role for the state in economic development or 20th-cen• was framed as a "romantic narrative," designed to entertain as tury social programs, and protection of minorities supposedly much as instruct.22 Nationalist history—Canadian, British, or were other legacies of the Loyalists, at least according to com• American—was presented as a struggle of grand principles. mentators who stressed their enlightened conservatism. On the The Loyalist myth in New Brunswick, which appeared in the other hand, the Loyalists and their descendants were viewed, in 1880s, emphasized the elite nature of the American refugees, Whig historiography, and by early to mid-twentieth-century their anti-republicanism, principled conservatism, and God- academic historians, as barriers to economic and political ordained mission to preserve the British Empire.23 If Loyalist progress.15 historiography was guilty of concentrating on white elite males to the exclusion of the common people, women, or minorities Ironically, given that the Loyalists were the "losers" of the such as blacks, this merely reflected the dominant historical Revolutionary war, the Loyalist myth or tradition emerged in the approaches of the era.
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