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Doughty, A.G., "Acadia", and "Acadians", The Encyclopedia of Canada, Volume 1, edited by W. Stewart Wallace, Toronto: University Associates of Canada, Limited, 1935, 1940 and 1948. pp. 5-7 and pp. 7-9.
The two articles "Acadia" and "Acadians" by AGD were published in Volume 1 of the 1935, 1940 and 1948 editions of The Encyclopedia of Canada. The article “Acadia” by A.G. Doughty, as originally printed in the 1935 publication was also reprinted verbatim in the 1940 and 1948 publications; all with the same pagination. Whereas, the article "Acadians" in the1940 and 1948 editions varied from the original in so far as a sentence was deleted from the last paragraph of p. 9.
The Encyclopedia of Canada was the first comprehensive general encyclopedia on Canada. W.S.W. [W. Stewart Wallace] in the “Preface” to the 1935 edition (p. ix), noted that this was “an up-to-date encyclopedia of Canada” which embraced “not only history and biography but all of these other subjects as well”, that is, the fields of geography, social science, natural science, literature, religion, education, art, and law. This approach set The Encyclopedia of Canada apart from previous attempts to compile an encyclopedia of Canada, specifically J. Castell Hopkin’s, Canada: An Encyclopedia of the Country in six volumes published 1899-1900, and two dictionaries of Canada, published in 1926 and 1930.
The Encyclopedia of Canada was published as a six-volume set, 1935-1937 (Volumes 1 & 2 published in 1935, Volumes 3 & 4 in 1936 and Volumes 5 & 6 in 1937), which included a founders’ edition; 1940; and 1948. In 1949 a supplement volume was published on Newfoundland. AGD was on the Editorial Advisory Board for the 1935 edition.
The 1935 edition of The Encyclopedia of Canada, held by LAC (OCLC #2376065); the 1940 edition held by Queen's University (OCLC #7341986); and the 1948 edition held by LAC (OCLC #1007851056), were reviewed; select images are pictured above. A digital copy of the 1940 edition is available through Internet Archive (archive.org).
