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L'auteur de cette communication y examine la raison pour laquelle le peuple canadien s'efforce de conserver une identity nationale distincte. La nation canadienne fut d'abord le produit d'intérêts exigeant l'isolement du Canada par rapport au plus vaste ensemble communautaire nord‐américain. La propagation chez eux d'un sentiment national a requis de la plupart des Canadiens qu'ils rejettent la possibilityé de participer au grand marchê libre, résultant de l'union des Treize Colonies et de la création des Etats‐Unis, comme d'en tirer leur profit.Les perturbations politiques et sociales que le Canada a connues sont nées des tentatives de ses citoyens pour mettre fin à une politique qui limitait leur liberté de mouvement et leur refusait la promotion sociale offerte par l'expansion de l'ensemble de l'Amérique du Nord. Ceci s'applique aux tourmentes du Canada français aussi bien qu'ailleurs au pays.

In taking for this paper the title "Sociology, History, and the Problem of Social Change," I am made highly conscious of the fact that, although today I go by the title of sociologist, it was as a student of history twenty-nine years ago that I graduated from this University. It would be scarcely fair to my old history teachers of Saskatchewan to suggest that this evening my past has risen to haunt me. But certainly I learnt too much from George Simpson, Hilda Neatby, and the late Arthur S. Morton for it not to influence what I have to say this evening. Indeed, it was a simple saying of Professor Morton's, made here to apply to sociology, which perhaps best expresses the theme of this paper. The eyes of history, it was his saying, are geography and chronology. Tonight I want to argue that geography and chronology are the eyes of sociology as well as of history and that only by the use of both these eyes can an adequate theory of social change be developed. If, in the course of arguing this, I am led to the conclusion that there cannot continue to exist the kind of distinction now made between history and sociology, I feel confident that my old history teachers of the University of Saskatchewan will not consider that I have been an unfaithful pupil.

When the executive committee of the Canadian Social Science Research Council met in Ottawa on September 6, 1957, concern regarding the future programme and policy of the Council led it to establish a special committee with Professor S. D. Clark as chairman to give consideration to the kind of support for research which Canadian social scientists appeared to need most. To aid the committee in its task, Professor Clark was asked to visit as many of the universities of Canada as possible. Visits were made to the universities of New Brunswick, Mount Allison, Dalhousie, Saint Mary's, Acadia, Saint Francis Xavier, Memorial, Laval, McGill, Montreal, Queen's, Ottawa, Carleton, McMaster, Western, Assumption, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and to United College and Victoria College. In addition, interviews were arranged with two persons from each of the following institutions: Regina College, Brandon College, and Bishop's University. The report of the committee was presented to the Council at a special meeting on November 30. In view of the interest which the report aroused, Professor Clark was asked at the meeting to prepare for publication a paper setting forth some of the ideas and thoughts which had found expression in his report to the Council. The paper he prepared is now published as a special supplement to the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, the costs of publication being met by a grant from the Canadian Social Science Research Council. To the University of Toronto which kindly released Professor Clark from his teaching duties during the Fall Term, 1957, and to Professor Clark himself, the Council is deeply indebted.