288 Histoire sociale 1 Social History depth of a case study. Marquis ably describes the chiefs' changing attitudes, but does not adequately explain why they held these views nor interprets what they mean. His approach is narrative; no theory informs his treatment of tapies such as professionalization. There is no quantitative analysis. Marquis has a good grasp of Canadian social history, yet his study Jacks an interpretative overview. As a conse- quence, the chiefs seem one-dimensional. Their history becomes a kind of morality play between right-thinking paragons and their critics. Policing Canada's Century, however, is more than a dry institutional history. What is !ost in depth is gained in scope and originality. Marquis has broken new ground to produce a broad social history that illurninates many aspects of Canadian li fe. For ali its nearly 400 pages of text, he makes his subject live!y and interesting. Historians can no longer ignore police history. Much needs to be done, but Policing Canada 's Century will remain the indispensable groundwork for future studies. J. Rodney Millard The University of Western Ontario Robert J. Surtees - The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902. North York. Ont.: Captus Press, 1992. Pp. 432. Robert Surtees's The Northem Connection is a welcome addition to Ontario's burgeoning provincial historiography. Surtees brings not only experience to his study of the railway (having spent over 25 years as a professional historian), but an appreciation of the region. Born in South Porcupine and raised in North Bay, Surtees now resides in the latter community where he is a professor of history at the recently chartered Nipissing University. Cornrnissioned by the Ontario North! and Transportation Commission, Surtees's work relates the general history of the Terniskarning and Northem Ontario Railway (later renamed Ontario Northland) and the central role it played in the development of Northeastem Ontario. Created in 1902 by the provincial govemment to serve several small agricultural communities in Northeastem Ontario, the railway became the catalyst that sparked the province' s. if not the country's, largest rnining bonanza. Surtees outlines how successive provincial govemments tumed to the railway as a regulatory agency in a region devoid of govemment institutions. Although the Commission provided and con- tinues to provide numerous services in the region, the focus of the book is the railway and its role in developing Ontario's frontier. Divided into four sections, Surtees's book provides a well-researched, well- written account not only of the railway's history, but of the region's development. Drawing extensively on documents stored at the Ontario Northland Archives (recently closed due to provincial budget cuts), Surtees provides fresh analysis of the railway's and region's development from the North's perspective. Part 1 outlines the creation of the T &NO Commission, its first years of operation (under the control of its dornineering chairman, ''Jake'' Englehart), the discovery of silver and gold (particularly Cobalt's silver boom), and how Queen's Park used the T&NO as