National Imageries & Identities

The Political Destiny of Canada

Goldwin Smith (1823–1910) was a journalist, author, professor, historian, and translator, born in Reading, England. He was educated at Oxford University, which he attended from 1841 to 1848.

Smith was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History in 1858, a position he held until 1866. In 1868, he was appointed as professor, Cornell University until 1870.

He was a co-founder of many periodicals, including Canadian Monthly and National Review in 1872) and Evening Telegram four years later. In addition, he was the founder, editor, and publisher of Bystander, a controversial political magazine devoted to a diverse range of topics. A self-described liberal, Smith was also an author of many books, many related to his involvement in the Canadian political affairs.

In particular, he championed the secularization of education and freedom of schools from religious interference. His publications include Canada and the Canadian Question (Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1891) and Oxford and Her Colleges, Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1894), among other titles.

Smith, Goldwin, 1823–1910

Canadiana

Willing & Williamson

1878

Canada—Annexation
Canada—Colonization
Canada—English-French relations
Canada—Politics and government

Public domain

F1033 .S647

A Popular History of the Dominion of Canada: From the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Including a History of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, and Manitoba, of the North-West Territory, and of the Island of Newfoundland

Colour folded maps produced by John Bartholomew (1831–1893), a cartographer.

First three portrait plates engraved by John Angel James Wilcox (1835–). Last portrait plate engraved by Frederick T. Stuart (1837–1913).

Includes advertisements on last two unnumbered pages.

Published by William Briggs, the trade division of the Methodist Book and Publishing House. Briggs (1836–1922) served as the Book Steward between 1879 and 1919. In 1920, the publisher was renamed Ryerson Press and was among the most prestigious publishing enterprises in the country.

Withrow, W. H. (William Henry), 1839–1908

Canadiana

William Briggs

1885

Canada—History

Bartholomew, John, 1831–1893, cartographer
MacLean, John, 1851–1928 (autograph)
Stuart, Frederick T., 1837–1913, engraver
Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835–, engraver

Public domain

F1026 .W82 1885

Canada and Her Commerce: From the Time of the First Settler to That of the Representative Men of To-Day Who Have Shaped the Destiny of Our Country

A souvenir book commissioned by the Dominion Commercial Travellers' Association (the predecessor of the Canadian Professional Sales Association), established in 1874.

Lavishly illustrated, the book chronicles the Canadian business enterprise of the late nineteenth century, detailing the accomplishments of leading Canadian manufacturers and bankers.

Hedley, James, 1844–1916
Wadsworth, H. W.

Canadiana

Sabiston Lithographic Publishing Company

1894

Traveling sales personnel
Canada—Biography
Canada—Commerce
Dominion Commercial Travellers' Association

Public domain

F1027 .H43

My Vision of Canada

William Arthur Deacon (1890–1977) was a literary critic and editor. He served as a book review editor for various newspapers and magazines: Manitoba Free Press (1921), Saturday Night (1922–1928), Toronto Mail and Empire (1928–36) and The Globe and Mail (1936–1961). 

Pens and Pirates (Ryerson Press, 1923), Poteen: A Pot-Pourri of Canadian Essays (Graphic Publishers Limited, 1926), and The Four Jameses (Graphic Publishers Limited, 1927) are considered to be his best publications.  

My Vision of Canada is a passionate political treatise on the needs of Canada. 

The book is bound in green paper boards lettered in light green. White paper dust-jacket printed in purple, bright light green and yellow. It is an inscribed presentation copy dedicated to Pelham Edgar (1871–1948), a Victoria College professor, author, editor, founder of the Canadian Writers' Foundation, and proponent of Canadian poetry, literature, and cultural life.  

John Ford Clymer (1907–1989), an American illustrated and painter designed the dust jacket.

Deacon, William Arthur

Canadiana

Ontario Publishing Company Limited

1933

Canada
Canada—Economic conditions—1918–
Canada—Relations—Great Britain
Great Britain—Relations—Canada

Clymer, John, 1907–, artist

F1027 .D32

Dominion of the North: A History of Canada

Professor Donald Creighton (1902–1979), a Victoria College alumnus, is recognized as a prolific historian of Canada.

His publications include John A. Macdonald, a two-volume biography published by Macmillan Company of Canada between 1952 and 1955, continues to be a milestone in the scholarship on Canadian history.  

The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence, 1760–1850 (Ryerson Press, 1937) analyzes the role of the river in the development of the Canadian economy, based on the trade of "staples"— fish, fur, timber, wheat, and minerals. 

Domnion of the North recounts the national history of Canada until 1939 and concludes with the country's declaration of war against Germany. Second edition was published in Canada by the Macmillan Company of Canada Limited in 1957 with an additional chapter, "Modern Canada in a Great-Power World."
   

Bound in grey textured cloth boards with maroon lettering. Cream paper dust-jacket with colour illustration on front. Includes maps on lining papers.

Creighton, Donald, 1902–1979

Canadiana

Houghton Mifflin Company

1944

Canada—History

F1026 .C75 1944

On Being Canadian

Charles Vincent Massey (1887–1967) was a politician and diplomat, and governor general.

Born into a prominent Toronto family (founders of the internationally successful Massey Manufacturing Company, specializing in the production of farm equipment), Massey also served as high commissioner to Great Britain in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950) between 1935 and 1946.

On Being Canadian explores Canadian society, culture, history, geography, foreign policy, diplomatic relations with the United States, and the role of Canada in the Commonwealth of Nations. 

Canadian Massey also chaired the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, appointed by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent in 1949. Canada Council for the Arts (a government entity responsible for promoting Canada's cultural industries), was established as part of the recommendations of the committee.

Massey, Vincent, 1887–1967

Canadiana

J. M. Dent & Sons Limited

1948

National characteristics, Canadian
Nationalism—Canada
Canada—Foreign relations

Stewart, Clair, 1910–2008, artist

F1027 .M25

Brown of the Globe

J.M.S. Careless (1919–2009) was a historian and professor at the University of Toronto. His scholarly contributions included the establishment of a theoretical framework for the study of the development of Canadian cities.

During his retirement, Careless was appointed senior research associate at Victoria College and the Donald Creighton Lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1987.

Published in two volumes by the Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, between 1959 and 1963. Volume one, "The Voice of Upper Canada, 1818–1859," Volume two, "Statesman of Confederation, 1860–1880," Careless received Governor General's Literary Award in 1963 for the book.

His other prominent titles are Canada: A Story of Challenge (Cambridge University Press, 1953), The Union of the Canadas (McClelland and Stewart, 1967), The Rise of Cities (Canadian Historical Association, 1978), Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History (James Lorimer, 1984) and Frontier to Metropolis (University of Toronto Press, 1989).

Careless, J. M. S. (James Maurice Stockford), 1919–2009

Canadiana

Macmillan Company of Canada Limited

1959–1963

Canada—Politics and government—1841–1867
Brown, George, 1818–1880
Globe (Toronto, Ont.)

F1032 .B87