was originally scheduled for publication in 2013, but has yet to appear. Chair of L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History In September 2015, McMaster University announced that McKay would be joining their Department of History as the L.R. Wilson Chair for Canadian history. McMaster's Dean of Humanities, Ken Cruikshank, stated: "Dr. McKay is the perfect scholar to lead the L. R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History as we approach the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017." McKay already has a vision for the institute, and has recently spoken about the need for historians to contribute to public discourse, and for Canadian historians engaging in a broader conversation that transcends the narrow confines of their own research. This latter theme is an echo of his article, "Liberal Order Framework", in which he decried the state of the field more generally. In a recent profile piece, McKay spoke of several themes that would be addressed in the next year or two at the Wilson Institute, namely issues of war and peace, and social justice issues. About the former, he said: "McMaster has a wonderful tradition of peace research and tremendous archival sources, and it’s just a paradise for someone who’s interested in peace and war." He added that as a more broad goal, he was Selected works The Craft Transformed: An Essay on the Carpenters of Halifax, 1885–1985 (1985) People, Resources and Power: Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region (co-edited with Gary Burrill, 1987) The Challenge of Modernity: A Reader on Post-Confederation Canada (ed., 1990) Toward A New Maritimes: A Selection from Ten Years of New Maritimes (co-edited with Scott Milsom, 1992) The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (1994; CLS Edition 2009) For a Working Class Culture in Canada: A Selection of Colin McKay's Writings on Sociology and Political Economy (ed., 1995) Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History (2005) Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 (2008) In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (co-author Robin Bates, 2010) Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety (co-author Jamie Swift, 2012) The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (co-author Jamie Swift, 2016) Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto (co-author Peter Graham, 2019) Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the