Stephen Azzi is director of the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management at Carleton University, where he is associate professor of political management, history, and political science. He is author of Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism (1999) and Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada-US Relations (2015), as well as several articles on Canadian, American, and Italian history.

Barry M. Gough is professor emeritus of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, and adjunct professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario. His Canada (1975) was published in the Modern Nations in Historical Perspective Series (Prentice Hall), edited by Robin W. Winks. He's the author of several books First across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1997), Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath (2002), and Fortune's a River: Collision of Empires in Northwest America (2007).