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In the 1920s and 1930s members of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC) debated how best to represent the past’s ethnic and linguistic diversity. Some board members espoused a “bicultural” view of Canadian history that aimed to subsume francophone and anglophone experience in a unified civic history, posited as a corrective to the linguistic strife then vexing Canada. The HSMBC’s commemorative projects at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, forced members to confront entrenched ethnic and linguistic rivalries — conflict that challenged and finally undermined their commitment to this incipient biculturalism. Résumé Dans les années 1920 et 1930, les membres de la Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada (CLMHC) discutèrent de la meilleure façon de représenter la diversité ethnique et linguistique de ce passé. Certains membres de la Commission adoptèrent une vision « biculturelle » de l’histoire du Canada qui visait à subsumer l’expérience francophone et anglophone dans une histoire civique unifiée, présentée comme un remède au conflit linguistique qui affligeait alors le Canada. Les projets commémoratifs de la CLMHC à Grand-Pré, en Nouvelle-Écosse, forcèrent ses membres à faire face aux rivalités ethniques et lingustiques solidement ancrées, qui remirent en question et finalement minèrent leur engagement envers ce biculturalisme naissant.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.