Alfred G. Bailey (1905-1997) was an ethnohistorian, anthropologist, university builder and administrator, and among the first of Canada's "modernist" poets. He was Honorary Librarian and CEO of the University of New Brunswick Library from 1946 to 1959. From 1946 to 1964, he was the first Dean of Arts at UNB, and from 1965 to 1969, he was Vice President Academic. He retired in 1970.

‘In 1937, for the first time, a Canadian historian produced a realistic, historical presentation of the Canadian Indian by combining anthropology and history…he sketched out the entire cultural interplay between the French and the Eastern Algonkians, a crucial period in which racial relations passed from equality to dependence…[it] still remains the best account of cultural conflict in early Canadian history.’ - Ethnohistory ‘The book has not been superseded since its first publication…It remains the major study of the subject, a useful reference work, and point of departure for honors and graduate students.’ - Choice

Alfred G. Bailey (1905-1997) was an ethnohistorian, anthropologist, university builder and administrator, and among the first of Canada's "modernist" poets. He was Honorary Librarian and CEO of the University of New Brunswick Library from 1946 to 1959. From 1946 to 1964, he was the first Dean of Arts at UNB, and from 1965 to 1969, he was Vice President Academic. He retired in 1970.

‘In 1937, for the first time, a Canadian historian produced a realistic, historical presentation of the Canadian Indian by combining anthropology and history…he sketched out the entire cultural interplay between the French and the Eastern Algonkians, a crucial period in which racial relations passed from equality to dependence…[it] still remains the best account of cultural conflict in early Canadian history.’ - Ethnohistory ‘The book has not been superseded since its first publication…It remains the major study of the subject, a useful reference work, and point of departure for honors and graduate students.’ - Choice

Alfred G. Bailey (1905-1997) was an ethnohistorian, anthropologist, university builder and administrator, and among the first of Canada's "modernist" poets. He was Honorary Librarian and CEO of the University of New Brunswick Library from 1946 to 1959. From 1946 to 1964, he was the first Dean of Arts at UNB, and from 1965 to 1969, he was Vice President Academic. He retired in 1970.

‘In 1937, for the first time, a Canadian historian produced a realistic, historical presentation of the Canadian Indian by combining anthropology and history…he sketched out the entire cultural interplay between the French and the Eastern Algonkians, a crucial period in which racial relations passed from equality to dependence…[it] still remains the best account of cultural conflict in early Canadian history.’ - Ethnohistory ‘The book has not been superseded since its first publication…It remains the major study of the subject, a useful reference work, and point of departure for honors and graduate students.’ - Choice