Anonymized index, taken from the first chapter of a memoir.
70 King Arthur Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 24
A
American Empire, 23
B
Boer War, 21
British Empire, 21, 26, 27
C
Canada in Grassport imagination
argued over, 20, 21
grand destiny, 21, 26, 29–30
imperial domino, 21, 26–27
is there enough here?, 26, 27, 29
lost destiny, 22–23, 26
responsive to Grassports, 23, 26
white Anglo-Saxon, 23
Canada in Iylchs imagination, 19
F
First World War. See World War I
Fleming, Sandford, 20
G
Grassport, Harvey Monro (great-grandfather)
Canada's grand destiny, 21, 29–30
criticism of empire, 26
legacy, 23
life overview, 20
Sailing, 21, 25
sermon written on birchbark, 23
transcontinental railway survey, 20–21
Grassport, Harvey Perkins (uncle), 22–23, 25, 26, 27–28
Grassport, Julie Barbara. See Iylchs, Barbara (née Grassport)
Grassport, Mary Munro (aunt), 24
Grassport, Michael "Snappy" Lerner (grandfather), 21–22, 23–24, 27
Grassport family. See also patriotism
bucking tradition, 22, 28
public intellectuals, 21, 22–23, 26, 28
Grassport Hall, Queen's University, 23
Grassport House, Upper Canada College, 23–24
Grassport-Perkins correspondence, 25
H
Halifax, 20–21
Harvard University, 28
I
Iylchs, Barbara (née Grassport) (mother), 20, 24, 28
Iylchs, Harvey (father), 19, 20
Iylchs, Mercedes
academic career, 28
journalism career, 28-33
political career, 33-34
railway journeys, 15-20
Iylchs, Pavel (Paul) (grandfather), 19
Iylchs family, 18–19
imperialism, 21, 23, 26
K
Kingston, Ontario, 20
L
Lamentation for an Empire, 22–23, 25, 27–28
Laurier, Wilfrid, 20
League of Nations, 22
London, England, 28
love of country, 20, 27–28, 29–30
See also nationalism
M
Macdonald, John A., 20
myth-making, 23
See also Canada in the Iylchs imagination; Canada in the Grassport imagination
N
nationalism, 21, 27
See also love of country; patriotism
O
Oxford University, 21–22
P
patriotism. See also love of country; nationalism
as family inheritence, 18
Grassport family, 20, 26–28, 29–30
Q
Quebec, 18–19
Queen's University, 20, 23
R
railway, building of, 19
railway survey, 20–21, 25
refugees, 18
S
Sailing, 21, 25
Second World War. See World War II
sermons, 23
South Africa, 21, 24
U
Upper Canada College, 23–24
W
World War I, 22, 24, 27
World War II, 21