while the projected volume "The North, 1870-1965" by Morris Zaslow became two volumes: The Opening of the Canadian North, 1870-1914 and The Northward Expansion of Canada 1914-1967. Similarly, the proposed final volume with the generic title "Epilogue, 1940-1967", with no author initially assigned, was split into two volumes: The Forked Road: Canada, 1939-1957 by Creighton himself, and Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation by Jack Granatstein. There were also changes to some of the authors of the volumes. For example, the original plan was that Guy Frégault, a noted Quebec historian, would write two volumes: "New France, 1702-1743" and "New France, 1744-1760". However these two volumes were instead written by Dale Miquelon and George F. G. Stanley, respectively, presumably because Frégault was appointed the Deputy Minister of the Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs (1961-1966; 1970–1975). Similarly, P.B. Waite replaced J.T. Saywell for "Canada, 1874-1896"; Robert Craig Brown joined Ramsay Cook in writing "Canada, 1896-1921"; and John Herd Thompson and Alan Seager replaced F.W. Gibson as author of "Canada, 1922-1939". The original plan was that the series would be completed by the Centennial year, 1967. Most of the pre-Confederation volumes were done by 1967, but of the post-Confederation volumes only Morton met this deadline. John Herd Thompson, himself one of the authors of a post-Confederation volume, jokingly commented that the delays were so lengthy that the series was in danger of becoming the "Canadian Bi-Centenary series". The final volume to be published, New France, 1701-1744: A Supplement to Europe by Dale Miquelon, did not appear until 1987, although it was the fourth volume in terms of chronology. The series was not completed by the time of the deaths of the two original editors, Creighton in 1979 and Morton in 1980. Ramsay Cook took over as executive editor in 1983, at the request of Jack McClelland, president of McClelland & Stewart. Each volume in the series was initially published in hard-bound versions, followed by paperback versions. As of 2020, the entire series is available from Amazon as Kindle editions. Individual volumes Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, 1000-1632 Written by Tryggvi J. Oleson, a Manitoba historian of Icelandic descent, Early Voyages and Northern Approaches was the second volume to be published, in 1963. Oleson examined two different aspects of European exploration of the Canadian Arctic: by the Norse settlers of western Greenland, and later by other Northern European explorers, mainly from