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Frank Underhill, born in Stouffville, Ontario, was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford where he was a member of the Fabian Society.
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Underhill was educated at the University of Toronto, graduating from it with a bachelor's degree in 1911. He then taught history there from 1927 and till his retirement in 1955 due to a dispute with the administration.
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Underhill earned his second bachelor's degree at the University of Oxford in 1913.
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Underhill began his academic career at the University of Saskatchewan, where he taught history and was also the university’s first professor of political science from 1914 to 1915 and from 1919 to 1927.
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In his later years, Underhill worked as a critic and writer and served as a lecturer and Chair of the Department of History at Carleton University in Ottawa.
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This witty and absorbing collection moves with a vigorous pace through the past and present of Canadian politics, a fresh breath of vitality that would open new doors in our national consciousness.
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Frank Underhill, born in Stouffville, Ontario, was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford where he was a member of the Fabian Society.
He was influenced by social and political critics such as Bernard Shaw and Goldwin Smith. He taught history at the University of Saskatchewan from 1914 until 1927 with a long interruption during World War I during which he served as an officer in the Hertfordshire Regiment of the British Army on the Western Front. He also taught from 1927 until 1955 at the University of Toronto.
He left the University of Toronto due to a dispute with the administration and later joined the faculty at Carleton University.
During the Great Depression, Underhill joined several other left wing academics in forming the League for Social Reconstruction. He remained a committed anti-imperialist and was almost dismissed from the University of Toronto in 1941 for suggesting that Canada would drift away from the British Empire and draw closer to the United States.
His struggle with the university became a landmark in the history of academic freedom in Canada. In the essays Underhill covered many Canadian concerns such as politics before and after the Canadian Confederation, relations with the United States and Britain and assessments of the actions of Canadian public figures.
Underhill was a strong supporter of the United States during the Cold War.
In his later years, Underhill served as a lecturer and Chair of the Department of History at Carleton University in Ottawa. Carleton University has named a major reading room and the Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium—the longest running graduate colloquium in Canada—in memory of the former Chair.
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1960He joined the editorial staff of the leftist Canadian Forum in 1927 where he wrote a column of political commentary called "O Canada" from 1929 on and served for a time as chair of that journal"s editorial board. Despite these progressive leanings, Underhill had a conservative view of the historical profession and impeded the careers of several women historians. During World World War II, Underhill moved away from socialism and became a left-wing liberal continentalist.
Underhill"s most important writings are collected in the 1960 book of essays, In Search of Canadian Liberalism. The essays were praised in the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature for their "iconoclasm and trenchant wit often bordering on sarcasm." Underhill"s other notable works include Canadian Political Parties, 1957. The Image of Confederation, 1964.
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