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CANADA: A Story of Challenge
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
Here in one inexpensive volume is the story of Canada—the major facts of its history and the main forces which have shaped it—from earliest times to the present. It is a story of challenge, the challenge of a vast land to a group of scattered colonies which have emerged after immense difficulties to become a continent-wide nation of North America. This is history, as it should be written. Professor Careless's first-rate scholarship and brilliant style combine in an eminently readable volume for either the student or generál reader.
Because of its beautiful balance 'Canada: A Story of Challenge' is the most satisfactory brief history for the lay reader in Canada . . . nothing else of this size covers the main sweep ofour history as efftciently. toronto globe and. mail
An important contribution to Canadian unity as well as to Canada's understand-ing of its elusive character. Montreal gazette
The student and generál... Tovább

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CANADA: A Story of Challenge
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
Here in one inexpensive volume is the story of Canada—the major facts of its history and the main forces which have shaped it—from earliest times to the present. It is a story of challenge, the challenge of a vast land to a group of scattered colonies which have emerged after immense difficulties to become a continent-wide nation of North America. This is history, as it should be written. Professor Careless's first-rate scholarship and brilliant style combine in an eminently readable volume for either the student or generál reader.
Because of its beautiful balance 'Canada: A Story of Challenge' is the most satisfactory brief history for the lay reader in Canada . . . nothing else of this size covers the main sweep ofour history as efftciently. toronto globe and. mail
An important contribution to Canadian unity as well as to Canada's understand-ing of its elusive character. Montreal gazette
The student and generál reader alike will be grateful for an introduction to Canadian history which, while giving satisfactory answers to obvious questions, offers a pleasant imitation to further study and research.
canadian historical review
A significant addition to the histories of this Dominion, montreal star
His orderly, compact and lucid narrative should win hím the gratitude of count-less undergraduates. But this is alsó a book for the generál reader who will be delighted by the author's sinewy, often witty style and by his vigorous but fair-minded judgments. winnipeg free press
j. m. s. careless is Chairman of the Department of History at the Univer-sity of Toronto and author of the two-volume biography, Brown of the Globe. His Canada: A Story of Challenge won a Governor-General's Award when it was first published in its originál edition in 1953. Vissza