Negotiating the Past: The Making of National Historic Parks and Sites

"Very little has been written about the "heritage movement" in Canada ... this [book makes] a major contribution to [the] subject." Craig Brown is a member of the Department of History, University of Toronto. "makes an original and valuable contribution to our under-standing of the politics of history. This is more than just a sketch of a cultural programme or an account of the admini-stration of a small branch of government. The work deals, in fact, with the fundamental Canadian dilemma: who are we and how did we get here? By touching all the major regional and racial tensions that characterize our history, [Dr. Taylor] chronicles, through one small but increasingly significant programme, the elusive search for national identity. It is a fine piece of historical research, objectively and eloquently recorded." James T. Angus, Department of Education, Lakehead University.