Canada, 1922-1939: Decades of Discord

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

About twenty years after this series was supposed to end, out comes number 15 of the 19 in the set (still to come are numbers 4 and 17: New France, 1702-1743, and The North, 1914-1967). Presumably there will be a number 20 (Canada, 1967-1987) as well as a general index to the whole series. All of this for the sake of completeness.

Covered in this volume are the inter-war years, during which people did whatever it was that characterized those years as “the roaring twenties” and “the dirty thirties” Thompson wisely concentrates on the social history of the period: the frustrations of idealism, the new economic eras, the differing political beliefs, the shifts of wealth, the peculiarities of the Bennett government (1930-1935, even mentioning the hatchet job Charlotte Whitten did for the social welfare of children), and the road to war. A good book all round.