The Anniversary Compulsion: Canada's Centennial Celebrations, a Model Mega-Anniversary

by Peter H. Aykroyd

Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year's celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calendar dates that mark our lives.

Public events of the same type evoke an even more pronounced response. The Anniversary Compulsion focuses on Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967 as an example of how a classic mega-anniversary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550021850
• ISBN13: 9781550021851
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"