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Notes Douglas Francis is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is co-author, with H. Ganzevoort, of The Dirty Thirties in Prairie Canada (1980). Howard Palmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is former Editor of Canadian Ethnic Studies and author of several books and articles on ethnic studies and Alberta politics. His books on Alberta include Land ofthe Second Chance: A History ofEthnic Groups in Southern Alberta (1972) and Patterns of Prejudice: A History of Nativism in Alberta (1982). Tamara Palmer received her M.A. in English from York University with a thesis on Canadian ethnic literature. She is a freelance editor and writer and teaches in the effective writing program at the University of Calgary. Alan F.J. Artibise is Professor of History at the University of Victoria. He has published several books and numerous articles on western Canadian urban history and recently co-edited, with G.A. Stelter, Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process (1982). He is Editor of Urban History Review/Revue d'histoire urbaine and President of the Association for Canadian Studies. David E. Smith is Professor of Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He is the author of Prairie Liberalism: The Liberal Party in Saskatchewan, 1905-71 (1975) and The Regional Decline ofa National Party: Liberals on the Prairies (1981). Ken Andrews, an M.A. in History from the Universiting of Western Ontario, is currently working toward the completion of his Ph.D. Allen Mills is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Winnipeg. His work on Woodsworth is part of a larger project on the Independent Labour Party of Manitoba. David C. Jones is author of Midways, Judges and Smooth-tongued Fakirs (1982), a study of country fairs Journal ofCanadian Studies in the prairie west. He has co-edited four volumes on educational history and has written numerous articles on agricultural, school and country life issues. He is presently Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. Clara Thomas is Professor of English at York University. Her most recent work is William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life (1981), written in collaboration with John Lennox, a colleague at York. Laurence Ricou, who teaches at the University of British Columbia, is currently studying the writer's articulation of the child's perception in several works of Canadian literature. Robert Leeker is the author of On the Line: Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf and Hugh Hood. He has published widely in the field of Canadian literature, and co-edits the critical journal, Essays on Canadian Writing, as well as the multi-volume Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors. He is currently teaching at McGill University. Harry Boyle is a well-known author, journalist and broadcaster, and a former Chairman of the C.R.T.C. Margaret Doxey is Professor of Political Studies at Trent University. She is author of Economic Sanctions and International Enforcement (2nd edition, 1980). Michael Peterman is Associate Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and Associate Professor of English at Trent University. He regularly teaches a course in Trent's Canadian Studies program on the literatures of the Canadian and American Wests. Other current research interests include Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill and Robertson Davies. Ingrid Joubert est professeur agrege de lettres frarn;aises, chef du secteur de franc;:ais et presidente de I'Association des professeurs au College Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. Elle est collaboratrice des Editions du Ble et !'auteur d'une etude publiee a Paris en 1973, Alienation et Liberte dans Les Chemins de la liberte de Jean-Paul Sartre. 159 ...