JEFFREY SIMPSON, Globe and Mail
October 24, 2009
A week from Monday, at McGill University in Montreal, the winner of the recently created, well-endowed ($75,000 U.S. to the winner) and exciting Cundill International Prize in History will be announced.
If this were Britain, bookies would have already laid down odds on the three short-listed candidates, culled from a long list of 10. As this is Canada, and as the prize is only in its second year, no odds are on offer, but here's a guess from a source that has been often wrong in such matters: Put a nickel on U.S. historian David Hackett Fischer's Champlain's Dream.
