Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Why Heroines, Why History? 1
5. Part One
6. Chapter One. Like Mother, like Daughter: The Woman Warrior Tradition 17
7. Chapter Two. Images of Heroism and Nationalism: The Canadian Joan of Arc 41
8. Chapter Three. Representing History: The Statue and Film of Madeleine de Verchères 68
9. Chapter Four. Feminist and Teenager: The Decline of Madeleine de Vercheres’s Popularity 95
10. Part Two
11. Chapter Five. Walking to Beaver Dams: Colonial Narratives, 1820s–1860s 119
12. Chapter Six. The Lives of the Loyal Pioneers: Historical Societies and Historical Narratives 130
13. Chapter Seven. Lessons in Loyalty: Children’s Texts and Readers 164
14. Chapter Eight. ‘Seeing’ the Past: The Monuments and the Candy Company 195
15. Chapter Nine. Laura Secord, the Niagara Region, and Historical Tourism 233
16. Epilogue: The Iroquois Presence 257
17. Notes 275
18. Bibliography 333
19. Illustration Credits 357
20. Index 359