Canadian Issues : Essays in Honour of Henry F. Angus / Robert M. Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Robert M.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angus, H. F. (Henry Forbes), 1891-1991.

Angus, H. F.

Canada--Politics and government--1914-1945.

Canada.

Canada--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Topics of widespread concern to Canadians interested in the social sciences and to the general reading public are dealt with in this volume of essays by a group of Canada's leading scholars in political science and history. The book is presented in honour of Henry Forbes Angus, Head of the Department of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of British Columbia from 1930 to 1956, and the authors are all his former students, colleagues or associates. Included also are a bibliography of publications Dean Angus and, with his consent, a thoughtful and humorous article of his entitled ";Administration and Democracy.";Henry Forbes Angus was born in Victoria, in 1891. He received his school education in Victoria and subsequently attended the Lycée Descartes at Tours (France) and McGill University from which he received his B.A. in 1911. He proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford where he obtained a B.A., first class, in 1913 and a B.C.L., also first class, in 1914. He won the highly prized Vinerian Law Scholarship at Oxford in 1914, and was called to the Inner Temple Bar in the same year.Henry Angus served throughout the First World War: in India from 1914 to 1916 and in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1919. He was promoted to the rank of Captain and mentioned in despatches. He returned to British Columbia after the war, and in 1919 was appointed Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. In the same year he obtained his M.A. from Oxford. He was promoted Head of the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology in 1930. From 1949 to 1956 he was also Dean of Graduate Studies.Professor Angus was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1939 and was its President in 1951-1952. He has honorary degrees from McGill University and from the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, 1937-40, and a member of the Royal Commission on Transportation, 1949-51. From 1941 to 1945 he was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for External Affairs.Since 1955, Dean Angus has been Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of British Columbia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Contents

Contributors

Administration and Democracy

Constitutional Trends and Federalism

The Speakership of the Canadian House of Commons

The Senate of Canada-Political Conundrum

Canada and "Colonialism" in the United Nations

Neighbour to a Giant

Some Problems of Canadian Trading Policy

Changing Trends in World Trade

The Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations: The Report in Retrospect

Government Policy and the Public Lands

Some Contrasts and Similarities in Canadian, American, and British Procedures for the Examination of Monopolistic Situations

Telephone Rates in Canada

The Export of Electricity from Canada

The Shrinkage in the Value of Money

Trade Unions and Inflation: United States and Canada

Some Reflections on Economic Security for the Aged in Canada

Bibliography of Publications

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5282-9

OCLC:

992471911