CANADIAN FOLK ART: OLD WAYS IN A NEW LAND Michael Bird. Toronto, Oxford University Press, c1983. 121pp, cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-19-540424-6. Grades 7 and up. Reviewed by Carrie Gardner. Volume 12 Number 5 1984 September This art book adds to the body of Canada's multicultural literature an excellent visual record of folk art created by British, French Canadian, Mennonite, Germanic, Ukrainian, Doukhobor, and Polish immigrants. Bird introduces this collection of folk art with an insightful essay on the nature and quality of these crafts that places them in the survey of art history. He notes that:       we are all familiar with the image of Canada as a bush garden, a desolate       landscape, a hostile wilderness; novelists and poets have portrayed Canadians,       pioneer and contemporary alike, as a people preoccupied with survival. Could       such a people really have produced the self-affirming art displayed in the following       pages? On the contrary, the work of Canada's folk artists suggests that their energies were       far from exhausted by the effort required for subsistence. The ninety-seven paintings and crafts illustrate the strength of these traditional art forms and their description places them in historical background. An excellent addition to any library. Carrie Gardner, Seneca College, Toronto, ON.