The original 1942 catalog copy: Here is a timely and much needed book. How important Canada is to us and how closely Canada is bound to us are revealed in this fast-moving narrative. Materials never befoer available in book form sheds new light on Canadian-American relations through 400 years. The leading historian of Canada presents a fresh and penetrating interpretation of events and provides the background essential for an understanding of present-day problems. He describes his country’s struggle for national unity and the ups and downs of her political and social development. He tells the colorful stories of her great men, her explorers, her fur traders, her mounted police, and her empire builders. Professor Burt’s new book is not only popular with inquiring laymen but has been adopted as a text by many colleges and universities.