melancholy contemplation of things as they might have been and dingy reflection of that ineffably glorious world across the stormy Atlantic. English Canada started its life with as powerful a nostalgic shove backward into the past as the Conquest had given to French Canada: two little peoples officially devoted to counter-revolution, to lost causes, to the tawdry ideals of a society of men and masters, and not to the self-reliant freedom alongside of them. Governor General Adrienne Clarkson quoted Lower at Rideau Hall in an October 2002 speech on the occasion of the presentation of the Public Service Outstanding Achievement Awards: "In every generation Canadians have had to rework the miracle of their political existence. Canada has been created because there has existed within the hearts of its people a determination to build for themselves an enduring home. Canada is a supreme act of faith." He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1941 and served as its president from 1962 to 1963. In 1968, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Lower's service medals and academic medals were sold at public auction on 18 March 2012 in Napanee Ontario. Selected bibliography Documents relating to Canadian currency, exchange and finance during the French period, (Ottawa, 1925) Select documents in Canadian economic history 1783-1885, (Toronto, 1933). Edited with economic historian Harold Innis The North American assault on the Canadian forest: a history of the lumber trade between Canada and the United States, (New Haven, 1938) "Two nations or two nationalities", in Culture 4 (1943), 470–481. Two ways of life: the primary antithesis of Canadian history, (Ottawa, 1943) Colony to Nation: a history of Canada, (Toronto, 1946, 2nd ed., 1949; 3rd ed., 1957; 4th ed., 1964; 5th ed., 1977) This Most Famous Stream: the liberal democratic way of life, (Toronto, 1954) Canadians in the Making: a social history of Canada, (Toronto, 1958) My first seventy-five years, (Toronto, 1967) Great Britain's Woodyard: British America and the timber trade 1763–1867, (Montreal, 1973) A pattern for history, (Toronto, 1978) See also Governor General's Awards References Further reading Berger, Carl. The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing Since 1900 (2nd ed. 1987), pp 112–37 External links Biographies of Prominent Quebec and Canadian Historical Figures Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower at The Canadian Encyclopedia Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower fonds at Queen’s University Archives 1889 births 1988 deaths Canadian male non-fiction