Geoffrey C. Kellow
Geoffrey C. Kellow is a professor of Intellectual History at The College of the Humanities, Carleton University.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Geoffrey C. Kellow
Going Down Confederation Road
By Geoffrey C. Kellow
February 1, 2015
In his review of Janet Ajzenstat's Discovering Confederation: A Canadian's Story, Professor Geoffrey C. Kellow admires her intimate conversation with Canadian history but finds she goes too far in picking a fight with George Grant
It is this divide between the older account, based on the records of the legislative debates, and the revisionist account, which discerns a communitarian ethos, a "Tory touch" in the founding, that informs both Discovering Confederation and the body of work Professor Ajzenstat has produced over the last 30 years Very early in Discovering Confederation, Ajzenstat suggests that over time she has come to see Canada's political history as a "long avenue of 'texts Ajzenstat casts herself as a Canadian Emile whose education discovers not only the older, authentic story of Confederation but perhaps also an older, more authentic understanding of Canadian identity itself