Introduction: writing into Canadian architectural history / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- First impressions: how French Jesuits framed Canada / Judi Loach -- Visibility, symbolic landscape, and power: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's view of Quebec City in 1688 / Marc Grignon -- The expansion of religious institution and Ontario's economy, 1849-74: a case study of the construction of Toronto's St. James Cathedral / Barry Magrill -- "For the benefit of the inhabitants": the urban market and city planning in Toronto / Sharon Vattay -- Shifting soil: agency and building type in narratives of Canada's "First" Parliament / Christopher Thomas -- Stitching Vancouver's new clothes: the world building, Confederation, and the making of place / Geoffrey Carr -- Digging in the gardens: unearthing the experience of modernity in interwar Toronto / Michael Windover -- A modern heritage house of memories: the Quebec bungalow / Lucie K. Morisset -- Place with no dawn: a town's evolution and Erskine's Arctic utopia / Alan Marcus -- The idea of brutalism in Canadian architecture / Réjean Legault -- Nation, city, place: Rethinking nationalism at the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Laura Hourston Hanks -- From earth city to global village: McLuhan, media, and the cosmopolis / Richard Cavell -- Big-box land: new retail format architecture and consumption in Canada / Justin McGrail -- Archi-tizing architecture, advertising, and the commodification of urban community / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- "Canada's greatest architect" / Nicholas Olsberg -- A question of identity / Michael McMordie -- Memory, the architecture of First Nations, and the problem with history / Daniel M. Millette -- Conclusion: Further writing on Canadian architectural history / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe.