The Centennial Cure: Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia during Canada's 1967 Centennial Celebrations

‘Beaton does an excellent job of letting the curious reader know what became of the initiatives launched for the 1967 Centennial.’

Matthew Hayday, Acadiensis, November 2017

"Beaton provides an engaging text – one full of colourful characters – that explores how the worried perception that many held about Canada’s cultural poverty, the need for infrastructure, and what modernization should mean created the conditions for celebratory and "curative" centennial projects that would help direct and reflect the future of Nova Scotia’s cultural identities. Her monograph is a welcome addition to studies in Atlantic Canada, especially those focused on commemoration and tourism."

Elizabeth L. Jewett, Mount Allison University, The Canadian Historical Review vol. 99 no. 3, 2018

"Most published accounts of the centennial celebrations have focused on EXPO 67 and events in Ottawa but Beaton’s solidly researched and well written book is the first to show how one province – Nova Scotia – chose to commemorate the centennial."

Phillip Buckner, University of New Brunswick, British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 31 no 1

“In The Centennial Cure, Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton demonstrates a firm grasp of the literature on the 1967 Centennial. Accessible and engagingly written, Beaton’s book provides a vivid account of how this federal celebratory initiative was shaped by local politics and regional economic aims. The Centennial Cure is a significant contribution to the history of modern Nova Scotia, to the history of public celebrations, and to the study of regional identity in Canada.”

Michael Dawson, Department of History, St. Thomas University

“This book is a valuable study of the intersection of culture and ‘deliberate’ politics at one of the more optimistic moments of Canadian history. Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton conveys both the difficulty of planning large centennial projects and a sense of the haste with which many of the projects were thrown together”

Stephen Henderson, Department of History and Classics, Acadia University