Canadian Who's Who 1992

J.L. Granatstein is a history professor at York University and author of
War and Peacekeeping and For Better or For Worse.

The Canadian Who’s Who is the standard guide to those Canadians who
have made it. This volume, the 27th in a series that dates back to 1910,
contains more than 12,000 entries, all theoretically chosen on merit. No
one pays for inclusion, no one can argue his or her way in. Still, there
is no doubt that some groups receive greater consideration than others.
Academics, for one, are greatly overrepresented, and there seems to be
no reason whatsoever for the inclusion of some of those whose scholarly
achievements are, to say the least, minimal. Lawyers are also
overrepresented, while French-speaking Canadians seem curiously
underrepresented. Sports figures get short shrift—surely Paul Beeston
and Cito Gaston of the Toronto Blue Jays merit inclusion after their
World Series victory. But these minor cavils aside, the Canadian Who’s
Who remains an essential tool for every researcher and every library.
Next to the telephone book and the Oxford Dictionary, this must be the
most-used volume in the public libraries of the land.