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After experiencing life in London, the narrator and her brother discover that they are Canadians, not colonials. Their encounters with Englishmen and Americans demonstrate that there are three distinct countries, each with a character of its own, but sharing common interests. This is an early novel on the eternal theme of identity.

A.J.M. Smith has described George Frederick Cameron as one of 'Canada's greatest poets, ' who, with Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, 'were cut off just when their work had reached maturity.' Cameron's poetry is rich in classical culture, and involves itself with political concerns, love and death

Alexander Macrorie, the narrator, blithely announces the subject of the novel in the first brief paragraph: 'This is a story of Quebec. Quebec is a wonderful city.' In fact, it is the story of the love trials and tribulations of a young bachelor subaltern and his fellow officers of the 129th Bobtails quartered in Quebec City.

In 1966 the Canadian government announced the termination of a longstanding conditional grant relationship with the provinces in the domain of technical and vocational education. This book examines what ensued with particular reference to the province of Ontario.

The study of the chronological structure of the Brutus should be considered the vertebra of the monograph, but the body of the work is the prosopographical commentary, while the examination of Cicero's prosoporgraphical and chronographic resources and methods is an essential adjunct.

This book throws new light on the origins of probability and statistics. Heretofore these were thought to be entirely the creation of recent centuries, but it is demonstrated here that probability has a much longer history, reaching back to biblical times.

This source book provides answers to many diverse questions about Unamuno and his works, for example: Which newspapers did Unamuno write in? How interested was he in literature from the United States? Did he read Kierkegaard in Spanish? What about Kant? Did he read Catalan?

Bruce Peel's Bibliography was hailed by authorities as the single, finest introduction to the literature of the Canadian Prairies ever compiled, and one of the pioneering monuments of Canadian bibliographic scholarship.

This book reveals emerging theory in the nebulous area between neurophysiology and behavioural science which is of such vital importance in the mental health field.

Essentially this is a book about reality, the reality of the Columbia River project in relation to the people of the Arrow Lakes region.

Anne Lohrli has provided a table of contents to the nineteen volumes of Household Words, a list of the contributors with their contributions, and a title index to the more than 3, 000 items, prose and verse, published during the nine years of the periodical's existence.

Thomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period. This is the only edition of Hood's letters, it is definitive and thoroughly annotated.

This volume brings together five papers read at the University of Western Ontario in 1971 to mark the tercentenary of the publication of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. It commemorates what tradition has regarded as Milton's final poetic communication.

This study in economic history focuses on the commercial relations and monetary policies of England, Burgundy, and Flanders in medieval times. Professor Munro shows how princes in continental Europe employed coinage debasements far more often as ad hoc fiscal measures to meet their ever-growing need for revenue.

This study combines in one volume a history and sociopolitical analysis of the group now called the Ralliement des Cr�ditistes, and thus explores the dynamics of a contemporary social and political phenomenon - right-wing protest.

In this study Dr. Schiffer explores the sources and ingredients of the power of charisma. He theorizes that the image of the idealized man or charismatic leader is created by the populace at large.

In The Homesteaders, Stead stresses the importance of pioneer life, its heroic and ideal qualities, as part of a unifying national tradition. It is valuable as pioneering literary work, part of the slow evolution of Canadian literature from escapist romance to conscious examination of national life.

The book is a vivid example of the public concern of Canadians over the impact of industrialization and urbanization upon their farming population.

This book should help English-speaking Canadians to an understanding of the Qu�b�cois ideas of federalism from 1963 to 1971 and of how people in Quebec can come to believe that sovereignty is essential.

Frank MacKinnon is an urbane observer of the human condition. He believes in participatory democracy, but does not think that it or any other system will work if it is put on an ideological pedestal. The remedy which Professor MacKinnon proposes is the re-introduction into the affairs of man of colour and culture.