注释：
    ①Benedict Anderson,Imagined Communities:Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism,London,1983.该书是这一普遍进程的不可或缺的指南。
    ②指1760年英国占领整个法属加拿大--译注。
    ③指美国试图吞并英属加拿大而与英国军队及加拿大民兵发生的战争--译注。
    ④David Thomson,History of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America,Niagara,UC,1832; John Richardson,War of 1812,Containing a Full and Detailed Narrative of the Right Division of the Canadian Army,Brockville,1842; George Warburton,The Conquest of Canada,London,1849.
    ⑤[Pierre - Jean de Sales Laterrière],A Portrait and Historical Account of Lower Canada:With Remarks on the Present Situation of the People,as Regards Their Manners,Character,Religion,etc.,etc.,by a Canadian,London,1830,p.36.
    ⑥特别参见Mason Locke Weems,Life of Washington,Philadelphia,1809; David Ramsay,History of the United States from their First Settlement as English Colonies in 1607,to the Year1803,3 vols,Philadelphia,1816 - 1817; Timothy Pitkin,A Political and Civil History of the United States of America from the Year 1763 to the Close of the Administration of President Washington,2 vols,New Haven,1828.
    ⑦History of Canada(1845),translated by Andrew Bell,Montreal,J.Lovell,1860.转引自Ramsay Cook(ed.),French Canadian Nationalism:an Anthology,Toronto,1969,p.79.
    ⑧George Bancroft,The History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the Continent,6 vols,New York,1891 -1892,I,p.335.转引自Russel B.Nye(ed.),This Almost Chosen People:Essays in the History of American Ideas,East Lansing,1966,p.39.
    ⑨John Mcmullem The History of Canada,From its First Discovery to the Present Teime,Brockville,1855,前言,I,p.381.转引自M.Brook Taylor,Promoters,Patriots,and Partisans:Historiography in Nineteenth Century English Canada,Toronto,1989,pp.154、163.
    ⑩J.E.Collins,Canada' s Patriot Statesmen:Life and Times of the Right Honourable John A.Macdonald,Toronto,1891,pp.497 - 498.
    (11)Peter Novick,That Noble Dream:the 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession,New York,1988,pp.87 - 88.
    (12)H.Y.Hind,T.C.Keefer et al.,Eighty Years of Progress of British North America,Toronto,1863.
    (13)这是Henry J.Morgan的评价，见他的Sketches of Celebrated Canadians,and Persons Connected with Canada,from the Earliest Period in the History of the Province Down to the Present Time,Quebec,1862.也可参见Fennings Taylor(ed.),Portraits of British Americans,by William Notman,3 vols,Montreal,1877.
    (14)G.M.Grant(ed.),Picturesque Canada:the Country as it Was and Is,2 vols,Toronto,1882.
    (15)Charles Lindsey,The Life and Times of Wm.Lyon Mackenzie,with an Account of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837 Chiefly from Unpublished Documents,2 vols,Toronto,1862; John Charles Dent,The Last Forty Years:Canada Since the Union of 1841,2 vols,Toronto,1880 - 1881; William Kingsford,History of Canada,12 vols,Toronto,1887 - 1898.
    (16)John G.Bourinot,The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People,Toronto,1881.
    (17)G.M.Adam,“Literary Interregnum”,in:The Week,12.June 1884,p.439.
    (18)美国统一可追溯到殖民地时期，这是Moses Coit Tyler著作的主题，参加他的A History of American Literature 1607 - 1765,New York,1878.可参见John Higham,History:the Development of Historical Studies in the United States,Englewood Cliffs,1965,p.152.
    (19)Henry Adams,History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison,9 vols,New York,1889 -1891.
    (20)例如参见John Nicolay and John M.Hay,Abraham Lincoln:a History，1886年11月到1890年5月间系列出版在Century杂志上，随后以著作的形式由时代出版社付梓。
    (21)E.O.Haven,National Handbook of American Progress,New York,1876; B.J.Lossing,American Centenary:a History of the Progress of the Republic,Philadelphia,1876; Thomas Woolsey,The First Century of the Republic:a Review of American Progress,New York,1876.
    (22)展示过去100年间成果的参见David A.Wells,Recent Economic Changes,and their Effect on the Production and Distribution of Wealth and the Well - being of Society,New York,1890.