The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's
Journeys in the West

by Nancy Marguerite Anderson

A.C. Anderson discovered four safe all-British routes, succeeding where Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser before him had failed. Without his explorations, historian Derek Pethick once wrote, British Columbia may never have come into being or become a part of the Dominion of Canada.

Heather Robertson

River Horse: A Voyage Across America, by William Least Heat-Moon, is a dramatic, entertaining account of his 1995 trip across the U.S. in a twenty-two-foot C-Dory. Heat-Moon is a present-day American counterpart to Alexander Mackenzie and David Thompson.

Defiant Spirits:
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

Reviewed by Mariianne Mays Wiebe
Canada’s art has always been self-conscious, and Canadian artists have felt compelled, by dint of relative obscurity and overshadowing by larger, louder art spheres and traditions, to reflect on their own position relative to the rest of the world.