Canadian Myth-Making

  • Catharine Parr Traill
    The Backwoods of Canada. Carleton University Press
  • Norman Knowles
    Inventing the Loyalists. University of Toronto Press
Reviewed by T. B. Vincent
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This review “Canadian Myth-Making” originally appeared in On Thomas King. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999): 241-242.

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