Brown, Craig, ed.  The illustrated history of Canada.  Toronto, Lester and

            Orpen Dennys, 1987.  575 p.  Illus.

1. xii -  ‘The idea of an illustrated history of Canada was suggested by

                        Louise Dennys and Malcolm Lester…They wanted to produce

                        a book that would capture, in text and illustrations, the excitement

                        of our past, the variety, the richness, and the subtlety of our

                        history, and what it means to be a Canadian in the 1980s.  This is

                        what we have tried to do.  Craig Brown, Toronto, May, 1987”

1. xiii -  ‘A note on the illustrations” by Robert Stacey, Picture Editor.

                        “…’A tangible object,’ proclaimed the dean of Canadian historical

                        artists, C.W. Jefferys, ‘cannot lie or equivocate so successfully as a

                        word.’  But he warned that certain images are less trustworthy than

                        others. ‘Official’ art, whether portraits, monuments, murals,

                        wartime propaganda, or political icons, tends to tell us more about

                        the biases of the propagators than about its purported subjects. [This

                        History has relatively few illustrations of this kind]  This shift from

                        the mythic and heroic to the social and material can be seen in

                        Jefferys’ pioneering Picture Gallery of Canadian History (1942-50):

                        aarly volumes specialized in ‘visual reconstructions’ of ‘dramatic

                        episodes’, but later he asserted the primacy of ‘Old buildings, early

                        furniture, tools, vehicles, weapons and clothing, contemporary

                        pictures of people, places and events’ which’much [sic] be examined

                        to fill out the story.’”

1. xiv -  ‘Acknowledgements…Robert Stacey, the picture editor, whose

                        knowledge and understanding of Canadian art are formidable…”

1. 158 -  “The first play in Canada” “C.W. Jefferys’ pen-and-ink

                        ‘reconstruction’ of c. 1934 The First Play in Canada, depicts the

                        canoe-borne pageant being presented to welcome the Baron

                        de Poutrincourt on his return to his colony on November 14,

                        1606.”

            plate between p. 416 and 417  -  “A prairie trail”

1. 575 -  “Picture editing by Robert Stacey”