Abstract
This article interrogates the process of heritagization that occurs through the creation of the website dedicated to Léo Gravelle, a former Montreal Canadiens hockey player. This website, created by Léo Gravelle’s son, became an alternate venue to circulate and render accessible his professional hockey career by featuring private photographs alongside newspaper clippings, memorabilia and other personal archives. As a way to provide a wide exposure of Léo’s hockey past, facilitate public access to his personal archives that had been accumulated over many years, and ensure their preservation in the future, the creation of this website sheds light on heritage practices realized on a small and familial scale, at the intersection of unofficial heritage, digital heritage and familial heritage. Drawing on an analysis of the website and an interview conducted with the Gravelles, the article explores how this process of heritagization is framed – and transformed – by the possibilities provided by digital technologies, as well as by the cultural practices and familial ties that lie at the heart of the project The analysis of the digital heritagization practices initiated by family members occurring within the context of consumer culture and sport-spectacle opens up and challenges the way heritage is generally understood and established.
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