Bumstead. J.M.  “History, illustrated [review of The illustrated history of Canada].”

            In The Beaver, Feb.-Mar. 1988, p. 56-59.

1. 58 -  “The eighteenth century also saw the expansion of historical

                        painting, a genre of imaginatively recreating earlier events that

                        had gone unrecorded at the time, that continued among the

                        illustrators like C.W. Jefferys long after the introduction of

                        the camera.  From such work it is difficult to recapture an

                        accurate visual perception of the past…Cartier’s meeting with

                        the native inhabitants can be described from his own writings, but

                        to illustrate such an event with a Jefferys recreation is the

                        equivalent to using a modern historical novelist as primary

                        source material.”

1. 58 -  “In his note on the illustrations, Picture Editor Robert Stacey

                        quotes C.W. Jefferys as observing the ‘A tangible object cannot

                        lie or equivocate so successfully as a word,’ adding some

                        warnings about ‘Official’ art.”

1. 59 - “Given Jefferys’ point that artifacts don’t lie, one might have

                        expected more illustrations from our material history,

                        particularly regarding costumes and tools.”