Sean Cadigan

Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse (review)

was not completely anglicized. He spoke French and wanted his boys to learn the language, too. The looming tragedy that overhangs the book lends it extra poignancy. We are caught up in the story of the star-crossed couple and the sacrifice they made for their country, albeit somewhat unwillingly. It was lovely to see the photo of their greatgrandson visiting Clarence’s grave in France. Hazel recently celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday and lives in Moose Jaw. The family carries on. james pitsula University of Regina

Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island (review)

(161). On the other hand, many step-parents and stepchildren ‘found the generosity and other resources they needed to successfully navigate the tricky path out of the margins into a blended nuclear family’ (161). Gossage suggests that ‘the relatively smooth “blending” of a new member into an existing nuclear family might also have been encouraged by the practice, particularly for widowers ... of choosing as a second wife a servant, a cousin, a sister-in-law: someone the children knew already’ (147). This example suggests an intriguing difference from the rest of the country: was the practice of marrying one’s sister-in-law more widespread in Quebec than in the rest of Canada? Although the marriage of a widower to his dead wife’s sister was both legal and acceptable to Catholics, many conservative Protestants forbade it on religious grounds. As recently as its revision in 1962, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer prohibited the practice. Gauvreau closes the collection with a wide-ranging essay, ‘The Family as Pathology.’ In it he describes how recent intellectual fashions in psychology, social science, and history have reformulated the family. He takes issue with ‘those post-war Canadian social commentators who exalted the detachment of the nuclear family from the older solidarities of kin, religious institutions and community structures’ revealed in the other essays (387). And, at least in the case of children, as data in Statistics Canada’s National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth reveals, what Christie describes as the ‘culture of familialism’ persists as more than a vestigial remnant. Mapping the Margins is richly suggestive of how it and other overlooked remnants may be investigated. NEIL SUTHERLAND University of British Columbia