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Gummere married Amelia Smith Mott (1859-1937) in 1882; she was a noted scholar of Quaker history. Their son Richard Mott Gummere was a professor of Latin and headmaster of the William Penn Charter School. Their second son Samuel James Gummere had a military career, reaching the rank of major. A third son, Francis Barton Gummere Jr., was an invalid.
Prior to 1784, the Bermuda Garrison had been placed under the military Commander-in-Chief America in New York during the American War of Independence, but was to become part of the Nova Scotia Command until the 1860s (in 1815, Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost was Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Provinces of Upper ...
The historiography of Canada deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed, and debated the history of Canada. It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of those events in museums , monuments, reenactments, pageants and historic sites .
Chief Statistician of Canada Graduate Marc Garneau: Former President of the Canadian Space Agency, Member of Parliament Former chancellor Evelyn Gigantes: Former New Democrat Ontario cabinet minister Graduate Frank Graves: President of EKOS Research Associates: Graduate Herb Gray: Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada: Former chancellor Edward ...
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The Social history of Canada is a branch of Canadian studies dealing with Social History, focusing on the history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. It pays special attention to women, children, old age, workers, ethnic and racial groups and demographic patterns.
Modris Eksteins (B.A. Trin., professor of history 1970–) – historian, winner of the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, Rites of Spring: The Great War, The Birth of Modern Age; Robert Bothwell (B.A., professor of Canadian history 1981–) – historian, best known for his work on Canadian Cold War participation
Granatstein contends that multiculturalism, social historians and weak history teaching standards are responsible for Canada's lack of a historical narrative. He advocates for a greater emphasis on the study of Canadian history in schools and university history departments, especially political and military history.