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468 THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW livingin Fort Fitzgerald. For a southerner, the mostunusualcontribution comes fromRJ. Winterwhohasstudied theuseofquillsintheuniquenative artformofcloth decoration. Significantly, about halfoftheauthors inthisfirst volume arenortherners, andWinter'scontribution begs asouthern myopia of whatisandisnotimportant.Her workdriveshomea veryimportantpoint which,for toolong,hasbeengivenlittlemorethanlip-service: northerners, native and non-native alike, desire to know themselves,make their own decisions, anddisseminate knowledge, from theirownperspective, bythose whose legacyit is. RICHARD J. DIUBALDO Concordia University Bibliographie del'histoire duQuebec etduCanada / Bibliography oftheHistory of Quebec andCanada, •976-•98o. Tome Iet II. PAUL AUBIN etLOUIS-MARIE COTE. Quebec:InstitutQu•b•coisde recherchesurla culture •985. Pp. •3•6 Historians, students, andotherswhohavecometorelyon theBibliographie de l'histoire duQuebec etduCanada / Bibliography ofthe History ofQuebec andCanada, •966-75, willbepleased to learnof the publication of a second andequally comprehensive setcoveringthe succeeding five-yearperiod.The formatis unchanged, comprising three major divisions: Systematic, Analytical,and Author.Compilers Aubinand C0t• haverecognized that the utilityof any bibliography isdetermined bythelogicofitsindexing andthecomprehensiveø ness ofitscitation lists. In keeping withtheformer,theEuro-Canadian period oftheSystematic indexissubdivided intothreesections - FrenchandEnglish colonization and Confederation - and within these sections into a national and fiveregional categories. Thesein turnarefurtherbrokendownintonofewer thantwelveprincipaland •38 lesser classifications, accurately reflectingthe contemporary interests Of Canadianhistoriography. A brief investment of time will suffice to master the system.The secondmajor division, the Analytical, isanexceptionally usefulbibliographical innovation, providing an alternative indexingbykeyword,theme,surname, orlocale. It permitsadirect searchfor citationson diversetopicssuchas anti-Americanism, jails, or Ukrainians without atime-consuming trekthrough asuccession ofregional or chronological listings. Animpressive listof 5•9Jøurnalsandperiodicals, includingmanypopular or off-shoreacademictitles,atteststo the thoroughness with whichthese sources were surveyed.Among other welcomeinclusions are unpublished theses (an otherwiseunfamiliar sourceto many),referencesto individual essays fromcollected sets, andpertinentcitations unwittingly omittedfromthe •966-75 section of theBibliographie. AubinandCOt•'sworkcontains onlyminorflaws.AlthoughtheSystematic and Analyticalindexesare bilingual,the variousheadingsprinted liberally throughout thetextarenot,a potentialinconvenience for thebibliography's REVIEWS 469 many unilingual Anglophone users, especially since theindexes arefoundonly inVolumeI. Indeed,bybeingsatisfied withvolumes ofslightly unequal length (8oo and 6oo pages),it would have been possible to avoid splittingthe Systematic section andtokeeptheAnalytical indexwithitsownlistings. There areseveral English misspellings (medecine, Portugese, founderies, halfbread) andoddconstructions (publicaccount committee, publictransports), particularlyin the Analytical index.Yet sucherrorsare few,a remarkable proofreading achievement in such alarge-scale work.Lastly, thelistings themselves containwhat can only be calleda curiousintermixtureof Frenchwithin otherwise uniformlyEnglish citations, Th•se de Ph.D.,Universit•d'Alberta andBCStudies (hiver)beingtypicalexamples. Butthestrengths of thisbibliographical effort byAubin,C•St•,andtheir ablecolleagues aresuch astofaroutweigh anyminorflaws. Onecanonlyecho the prefatoryremarksof York UniversityhistorianRamsayCook: 'The publication of thesecond section means thework,sowellbegun,istocontinue andbecome a permanent partof theinfrastructure of historical research.' PATRICK H. BRENNAN Toronto BuildingandProtecting theCo-operative Movement: A BriefHistoryof theCooperative Unionof Canada•9o9-•984 . IAN MACPI-IERSON. Ottawa: The Cooperative Unionof Canada[2984].Pp.xii, e54 Ian MacPherson is, without doubt, the foremost historian of the Canadian Co-operative movement. In 2979he published a thoughtful, carefullyresearched , bookentitledEach for All: A History oftheCo-operative Movement in English Canada, •9oo-•945 (Toronto:McClelland andStewart). Thebooknow underreviewis a by-productof that earlier work. It is the historyof the Co-operative Unionof Canada,an umbrellaorganization, whichserved asa nationalspokesman for the co-operative movement,broughtvariouscooperatives together,and expandedthe scopeof co-operativeactivitiesin Canada. Itshistory isdividedintothreephases: thepioneerphase from 29o9to ß 2943 , the yearsof growthand consolidation from 2943to 2966,and the modernperiodof morecarefulanddiplomatic leadership. Thebookisa sound butnotveryinspiring institutional history. All thekey elected andappointedofficialsaredulyintroduced,thevariousbureaucratic structures andchanges areexplained, andthemajorproblems dealtwithby the board or senior officers are discussed. Neither the footnotes nor the narrative strayfar fromofficialminutes, publications, andpronouncements. Leading co-operators havetheir pictures included,togetherwithpictures of co-op buildings andpages from TheCanadian Co-operator. Littlein thewayof independent analysis or interpretation isoffered,except in theconclusion. Thismanuscript wenttopress withoutbenefitof thoroughproofreading. Readers mightbeamused tocontemplate thefeudalrelations between 'lord ...

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