Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
Volume 4 Number 2
The Dorchester Review

Volume 4 Number 2

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The Dorchester Review Autumn-Winter 2014

ARTICLES

The Four Pillars   F.H. Buckley and Conrad Black   3

"Je Me Souviens, Too"  Christopher Dummitt on Eugene Forsey’s Toryism and the "British Fact" 9

Who Needs Canadian Studies  Colin M. Coates  12

The Historians & the History Museum     C.P. Champion  17

 

COLUMNS

Second Thoughts about Residential Schools    Ken Coates  25

A Gulf Island conflict   Dyan Dunsmoor-Farley   85

‘A World Without Islam’   Michael R. Jackson Bonner  112 


FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY

At the Front with the CBC  Andrew Iarocci   30

Writing ‘In Flanders Fields’  Andrew Beckett            34

A Cree Olympian as ‘Everyman’  Phyllis Reeve       37

 

ESSAY

The Vanity of External Affairs  John Pepall   38


REVIEWS

Explaining the Holocaust  Thomas Andrews 46  Review of Why the Germans? Why the Jews? by Gotz Aly

The New Anti-Semitism   Andrew Roberts 48 Excerpted from The Modern Swastika: Fighting the New Antisemitism by Andrew Roberts

Conservatism as the Academy Sees It   John Robson  51  Review of Conservatism in Canada by James Farney and David Rayside, eds. University of Toronto Press, 2013.

The Magic Thread of ‘Greatness’  C.P. Champion  55  Review of Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present by Conrad Black. Random House, 2014.

Western Retreat & ‘Oil Cringe’  Tammy Nemeth  61   Review of Oil Cringe of the West by J.B. Kelly

Out of the Shadows  David Twiston Davies  66  Review of In Search of R.B. Bennett by P.B. Waite and The Authentic Voice of Canada: R.B. Bennett's Speeches in the House of Lords, edited by Christopher McCreery and Arthur Milnes.

An Academic Misfire  71  Gary Mauser  Review of Arming and Disarming: A history of gun controls in Canada by R. Blake Brown. University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012.

Return of the King  C.P. Champion  74  Review of The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America by F.H. Buckley, Encounter Books, 2014.

Secularization Revisited  Gerald J. Russello  77   Review of How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization by Mary Eberstadt. Templeton Press, 2013.

Consultation Unbound  Tom Flanagan  81    Review of Revisiting the Duty to Consult Aboriginal Peoples by Dwight G. Newman, 2014.


CRIME & CALAMITY

Politically Explosive  Paul Cowan  89

 

TELEVISION

Epitaph for Civilization  Christopher Akehurst (via Quadrant)  93

 

LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA      48  Gregory Melleuish

 

REPUTATIONS

History & Heritage Betrayed ?  Rory MacLean  99

For Greater Sacrifices? — A Reply by Richard O. Mayne  101

 

NOTES & TOPICS

An Interview with the Chief Historian            20 C.P. Champion interviews David Morrison at the Canadian Museum of History, October 2014

A Royalist Exhibit       22

Wanted at Parliament: 19th Century Policing            24

The Ante-Bellocian Black  (C.P. Champion)  58

Counter-Revolutionary Gaming  97  A Miscellany on "Assassin's Creed Unity"

Totally Bogus Viking Dudes  (C.P. Champion)  109

 

AUTHORS    104


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