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Donald V. Smiley

Donald V. Smiley was a Canadian political scientist who wrote a number of influential books on Canadian politics and government and especially Canadian federalism. Born in 1921, he was a graduate of the University of Alberta, he taught at Queen's University (1954-55), the University of British Columbia (1959-1970), the University of Toronto (1970-1976) and York University (1976-1990). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Soceity of Canada in 1974. He died in Toronto in 1990.

His books include, Canada in Question (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1976, 1983); The Federal Condition in Canada (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1987) and The Canadian Political Nationality (Toronto: Methuen 1967).

His work was very influential on a generation of Canadian political scientists and demonstrated by the book Federalism and Political Community: Essays in Honour of Donald Smiley edited by David P. Shugarman and Reg Whitaker (Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, 1989).