Larry Hannant
"The latest issue of Press for Conversion! "Captive Canada," was packed with background that I didn't know (even though I'm an historian). 

"Especially intriguing were the family histories of prominent Canadians on the left, from J.S.Woodsworth to the NDP's Desmond Morton, which showed their long tradition of racism and imperialism. I didn't realise Morton was the grandson of Sir William Otter, who oversaw Canada's WWI concentration camps.

"Family is very important in forming many people's politics and world outlook. Your examination of the slave-owning and Confederate family of Cold-War RCMP Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood (who himself was an arch-conservative) is a good illustration of that."

Larry Hannant is an author and historian at Camosun College in Victoria, BC.  His work includes:  The Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada's Citizens (author);  The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art (editor);  Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist  (editor);  The Spirit Wrestlers, a documentary film on the Doukhobors (script co-writer); "Explosion on the Kettle Valley Line: The Death of Peter Verigin" and "Death of a Diplomat: Herbert Norman and the Cold War" (The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History) (research director).

The above quotation is from a collection of subscriber's comments about issue #68 of Press for Conversion!
(the magazine of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade.

This issue is called 
Captive Canada:
Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at War,
from Narratives of WWI and the Red Scare
to the Mass Internment of Civilians

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