Craig Brown personified the avuncular, pipe-smoking professor people probably imagine all historians to be. When we worked together on the Illustrated History of Canada, he always called me "young fellow" -- when I was approaching forty. (Given the profession's graybeard image, historians get to be young for a long time, I realized.) But I noticed the trust, confidence, and admiration scores of historians placed in him, and the number of scholars who worked and co-published with him. I suspect they will be stepping forward in coming days.
