| In the Province of History : The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia McKay Ian : Ian McKay is L.R. Wilson Chair of Canadian History, director of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University, and author of The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia.Ian McKay is a professor in the Department of History at Queen's University. Robin Bates is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. |