Provides a history of Canadian culture, broadly defined to include both high culture and low culture, from the beginnings to the present.

The First Artists -- The Meeting and Mingling of Cultures -- Colonial Societies -- Popular Culture -- Culture on the Frontier -- The Dream of Useful Knowledge -- 'Streaks on the Horizon' -- Importing Culture -- Exporting Culture -- The First World War --The New Parliament of Art -- Patron Saints of Culture -- The Second World War -- Government Patronage --The Cultural Flowering -- The Regulatory State -- Towards the Future.