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Edgar Wardell McInnis (July 26, 1899 – September 28, 1973) was a Canadian poet and historian, [1] best known for his Oxford Periodical History of the War, a six-volume year-by-year history of World War II, and for Canada: A Political and Social History, which was an important and influential textbook in Canadian history classes in its era. [1]
Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory. Oxford Univ. Press, 493pp. Scholarly essays on how cultural memory is reflected in Canadian fiction, poetry, drama, films, etc. Elizabeth Waterston (1973). Survey; a short history of Canadian literature. Methuen. ISBN 0-458-90930-0
"Home | the Canadian Encyclopedia". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. Recommended place to start; Brune, Nick; Sweeny, Alastair (2005). "History of Canada Online". Waterloo: Northern Blue Publishing. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06 Web listing of Canadian history sources; Black, Conrad (2014).
Francis Reginald Scott CC QC FRSC FBA (1899–1985), commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott, was a lawyer, Canadian poet, intellectual, and constitutional scholar.He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party.
Canadian Literature was established in the autumn of 1958 by Roy Daniells and George Woodcock at the University of British Columbia. The first issue appeared in summer 1959 [9] to skeptical reception because of a general belief that Canada had no national literature; some critics predicted that the journal would run out of material after only a few issues. [7]
There was the general feeling that practically all poetry – particularly Canadian poetry – was hardly worth looking at, that something new had to be found, new methods of expression." [18] Other modernist Canadian writers, though sometimes published in the group's magazines, were never saluted or even acknowledged in its editorials. It was ...
Raddall worked with the Queens County Historical Society, the Historic Sites Advisory Council of Nova Scotia, and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.He played a role in preserving the diary of Simeon Perkins, an early colonial document published in three volumes (the fourth has yet to be published) between 1948 and 1978 by the Champlain Society, and edited by Harold Innis, D. C ...
A reader in Canadian civics (1935). The 1944 edition of 186 pages was authorised by the Minister of Education for Ontario [note 2] Encyclopedia of Canada (1935 – 1937, six volumes), later forming the core of the Encyclopedia Canadiana [note 3] Notes on military writing for English-Canadian soldiers (1943) A first book of Canadian history (1946)