W. L. Morton
W. L. Morton | |
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| Born | 13 December 1908 |
| Died | 7 December 1980(aged 71) Medicine Hat,Alberta,Canada |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Parent | William Morton |
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| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Canadian history |
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William Lewis MortonOCFRHistSFRSC(13 December 1908 – 7 December 1980) was a Canadianhistorianwho specialized in the development of theCanadian west.Along withArthur R. M. LowerandDonald Creightonhe is regarded as one of the dominant Canadian historians of his generation.[1]
Biography
[edit]Morton was born on 13 December 1908 inGladstone,Manitoba.He won aRhodes Scholarshipand attended theUniversity of Oxford,where he studied history. He returned to Canada to teach atBrandon College,theUniversity of Manitoba,and then atTrent University.W. L. Morton served as head of the Department of History and Provost of University College of theUniversity of Manitoba.He helped initiate theCanadian Centenary Seriesproject and served as the Executive Editor for the nineteen-volume authoritativehistory of Canada.He served as president of theCanadian Historical Associationfrom 1959 to 1960.[2]Morton was one of the most prominent early faculty members of Trent University atPeterborough,Ontario,and was the first Master of the university's Champlain College.
Morton was a strong supporter of theProgressive Conservative Party[3]and was very much aRed Tory.In 1969, he was made an Officer of theOrder of Canada"for his contributions as an historian, teacher and author of several books on Canadian History."[4]
Morton was a passionate nationalist and a conservative who fought against the liberal ideas that dominated Canadian thought after 1960, when the younger generation focused more on race, class, and gender as opposed to the national themes that intrigued Morton.[5]
Morton died on 7 December 1980 inMedicine Hat,Alberta.
Works
[edit]- Newfoundland in Colonial Policy, 1775–1793(1935;BLittthesis)
- Third Crossing: A History of the Town and District of Gladstone in the Province of Manitoba(1946)
- The Progressive Party in Canada(1950; winner of the1950 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction)
- The London Correspondence Inward from Eden Colvile, 1849–1852(1956)
- Alexander Begg's Red River Journal and Other Papers Relative to the Red River Resistance of 1869–70(1956)
- Manitoba: A History(1957)
- One University: A History of the University of Manitoba(1960)
- The Canadian Identity(1961)
- The Kingdom of Canada(1963)
- The Critical Years: The Union of British North America, 1857–1873(1964)
- Manitoba: The Birth of a Province(1965)
- Contexts of Canada's Past: Selected Essays of W.L. Morton(1980)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Kelly Boyd, ed.,Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writers(1999) 2:840
- ^Past Presidents,CHA
- ^Friesen, Gerald A. (1981)."An Interview with Manitoba Historian, William Lewis Morton".Manitoba History(1).Retrieved25 September2019.
- ^Order of Canada citation
- ^Kelly Boyd, ed.,Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writers(1999) 2:840
Further reading
[edit]- Berger, Carl.The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing Since 1900(2nd ed. 1987), pp 238–58.
- Berger, Carl, and Ramsay Cook, eds.,The West and the Nation: Essays in Honour of W. L. Morton(1976).
External links
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- 20th-century Canadian historians
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
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- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Canadian Rhodes Scholars
- Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers
- Historians of Canada
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- People from Central Plains Region, Manitoba
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
- Academic staff of Trent University
- University of Manitoba alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
- Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association