You don't know Jack

Jack Granatstein will never be confused as a close friend of mine.  The military historian who once headed the Canadian War Museum has a lot to say but not a lot to tell.  As far as Jack is concerned, unless you write about military conquests and political intrigue... you are not a real historian.  If your write about Joe Prairie-dweller's life in a sod hut on the bald prairie, Jack considers you a second class historian.  He gives you the title of social historian... not a real historian.

I know that because he told me to my face that stories of life in Newfoundland out ports, while interesting to some,  is not real history.