Frank H. Underhill: Intellectual Provocateur
Professor Francis has written a straightforward, scholarly and readable biography of one of our most articulate Canadian academics.
Eugene Whelan
Eugene Whelan is a decent, likeable, earthy and blunt politician who has turned out a very readable memoir with the help of freelance writer, Rick Archbold. His biases come through with the subtlety of a pile-driver. His first sentence proclaims his dislike…
Bedfellows
Bedfellows, by C.J. Masson, is, on the surface, a poorly-written melange of dangling participles, jargon, and pseudonymic pinpricks unworthy of the Canada Council assistance it received.
The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister
At 2 p.m. on the twelfth of December 1894, at Windsor Castle, shortly after being sworn in as a member of Queen Victoria’s Privy Council, Sir John Thompson collapsed and died. He was forty-nine years old. Thus ended the career of “The…
Commerce sans frontières; Leap of Faith: Free Trade and the Future of Canada; Taking the Initiative: Canada’s Trade Options in a Turbulent World; The United States and Canada: The Quest for Free Trade
Reviewed by Michael Hart
The Wine Lover’s Guide to France
Michael Busselle’s The Wine Lover’s Guide to France is an apt title because it puts the accent as much on France, the wine growing country, as on wine itself. The five principal wine growing areas that make up roughly half the country…
René Lévesque Memoirs
It had been almost a year since I’d last seen him. René Lévesque had just returned from a promotional tour in the Canadian West. It wasn’t his first trip, but it was the first time he’d been struck by the beauty of…
Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation
Jack Granatstein is one of Canada’s foremost historians. This book, which caps the nineteen-volume Canadian Centenary Series, should be counted as one of his finest works. Writing contemporary history isn’t easy. There are too many vivid memories of familiar events, too many…
Canadian Regulation of International Trade and Investment
The study of modern Canadian international trade policy and practice appears at last to be coming into its own. It is no longer the secret preserve of a few government officials and an even smaller group of specialists in the universities, think-tanks…
Legacy of Valour: The Canadians at Passchendaele
In the Great War, Flanders in southwest Belgium was a fulcrum of battle. The focal point was the Ypres Salient, a semicircle around the old cloth town from the north to the south. Running east from Ypres, the flat Flanders Plain rises…
