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On 12 July 1987, 174 people traveled from Rotterdam to Charlesville, Nova Scotia, on the Amelie in search of asylum. In Canadian national newspapers, their arrival was immediately turned into a crisis of securitization, which is common practice for such events. Conversely, local reports portrayed this event as a critical moment when regional Canadian identity was performed through commonly understood and commonly practiced all-inclusive hospitality. This article will look at how collective memories were produced and circulated on various levels in press reports, with a focus on the way local memories and local press reports supported international views of ideal Canadian humanitarianism and hospitality.

This article considers the ways that journalists' personal memories impact on the process of constructing collective memories, while analyzing how journalists mitigate the political, professional, and personal aspects of their lives. It compares the memories of local journalists with the memories of journalists working for national newspapers concerning the same international event, the arrival of the Amelie on Canadian shores in 1987, when 174 Indian refugees spontaneously landed in Charlesville, Nova Scotia (population 77). Personal memories and expressions of forgetting conflict with, or conversely, support, published representations, and allow for an exploration of the impact of personal memories in this specific realm. Power, identity, and emotions are all central to the production and circulation of social memories, as are relationships to places. This article unpacks journalists' personal comments related to forgetting and emotions in order to explore disjunctures which affect the social memories of communities through print media news reports.

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