Authors: Michael Ignatieff,Michael Ignatieff
Tags: #History, #Non-Fiction
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“My railway arch was hit” GPG to MPG, Bermondsey, 22 January 1941
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“tiger-like violence” and “brave new world” GPG to MPG, London, June 1941
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All other quotations, GPG to MPG, London, 15 June 1941
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“decided to enlist in the merchant marine” GPG to MPG, London, 21 August 1941
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“in 1940 we saw” George Grant,
Empire, Yes or No
(1945), p. 10
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“my need for God” GPG to MPG, Balliol College, 3 November 1945
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“I love England” GPG to MPG, Balliol College, 13 November 1945
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“you cannot have the plums after being a pacifist” GPG to MPG, Balliol College, 19 November 1946
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“a celebration of” George Grant,
Lament for a Nation
(2000), p. 7
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“the character of Canada as British North America”
Lament for a Nation
, p. 33
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“Those who loved the older traditions”
Lament for a Nation
, p. 94–95
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“Hope in the future has been” Sheila Grant, William Christian (eds.),
The George Grant Reader
(1998), p. 88
The Grant Parkin Papers (MG 30 D77) in the National Archives of Canada were the major primary source for this book. I am grateful to the archivists at the National Archives for assisting me.
The Papers, which run to forty volumes, cover the lives and careers of George Monro Grant, William Lawson Grant, George Parkin and George Parkin Grant, as well as their wives and children. I am grateful, as all members of our family must be, to Raleigh Parkin, youngest brother of Maude Parkin Grant, for doing such valuable work, during his retirement, collecting letters and materials from members of the family and donating them to the National Archives.
Since this book was not intended as either a scholarly work or a full-scale family history, but rather as an intellectual history of their ideas of Canada, I made selective use of these voluminous archives: the letters of George Monro
Grant home to his wife, Jessie Lawson Grant, in 1872 and again in 1883; his letters home to her and to his sons during his world tour in 1888, and his correspondence with Sir Wilfrid Laurier during the Boer War crisis; the letters between William Lawson Grant and Maude Parkin Grant between 1910 and 1918; and finally, the letters between George Parkin Grant and Maude Parkin Grant between 1939 and 1941.
In addition, I consulted the Sandford Fleming Papers in the National Archives of Canada, in particular the Fleming diaries relating to his trip with George Monro Grant to the Rogers Pass in 1883.
I wish to thank the archivists at Upper Canada College for their help in locating College photographs of William Lawson Grant and for retrieving from the archives the complete set of his addresses to the school between 1918 and 1934.
The papers of George and Alison Ignatieff are located in the archives of Trinity College, University of Toronto. I wish to thank the archivist for locating a number of letters by my mother to my father in 1945.
I also benefited from the kindness of Laura Brandon of Ottawa, who made available to me the correspondence between her mother, Mary Greey, her aunt Elizabeth Greey and Alison and George Grant between 1939 and 1941.
Every member of the Grant-Parkin-Andrew-Ignatieff families owes a particular debt of gratitude to William Christian, formerly of the University of Guelph, now retired, whose biographies of George Parkin Grant and Sir George Parkin have helped us all to understand these complex figures in our own past. Christian’s superb chapter on George Grant’s wartime experiences was particularly helpful to me.
I wish to thank Alana Fischer, formerly of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, for her valuable research in 2005 and Trevor Harrison for his help in securing papers from the National Archives and for his valuable work in compiling the notes.
My brother, Andrew Ignatieff, read the manuscript and shared with me his memories of characters we both knew. I am grateful for his astonishing loyalty and unstinting friendship.
University College at the University of Toronto honoured me with an invitation to give the Priestly Lectures in 2008 and I thank the Principal and the College for allowing me to give an earlier version of these chapters as lectures.
Kay Gimpel (née Moore) shared 54A Walton Street with my mother and was kind enough to share her memories of London in wartime. I thank Kay for her devoted friendship both to my mother and to me.
Michael Levine, friend, agent, lawyer and counselor over thirty years, kept faith in this project while it lay dormant in my mind and helped me bring it to fruition.
The editorial team at Penguin, led by Diane Turbide, and the team at Boreal, led by Pascal Assathiany, showed understanding and forbearance toward the author throughout the production process.
My greatest debt of gratitude is to my wife, Zsuzsanna, to whom this book, like all my books, is dedicated.
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