Bøger i Ontario Historical Studies S. serien

'James Struthers acknowledges the complexity of the subject and does not oversimplify issues. This often requires a skillful balancing act as bureaucratic imperatives, political pressures, ' the spirit of the times, ' private social agencies, social work professionals, the unemployed, labor unions, federal-provincial and provincial-municipal relations all interact in the shaping of welfare policy. He is scrupulous in giving due weight to all these variables.'-----James M. Pitsula, Professor of History, University of Regina.

Margaret Evans's biography of Mowat is in some ways the story of a golden age in the Ontario's history and the establishment of Ontario, through Mowat's stubborn struggle with Ottawa, as the dominant province in Confederation.