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George McKinnon Wrong

1860–1948

Γέννηση
25 Ιουνίου 1860, Grovesend
Θάνατος
29 Ιουνίου 1948, Τορόντο
Υπηκοότητα
Καναδάς και Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας και Ιρλανδίας
Ιδιότητα
Ιστορικός, κληρικός και θεολόγος

Ζωή και έργο

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George MacKinnon Wrong (June 25, 1860 – June 29, 1948) was a Canadian clergyman and historian.

Life and career

Born at Grovesend in Elgin County, Canada West (now Ontario), he was ordained in the Anglican priesthood in 1883 after attending Wycliffe College. In 1894, as successor to Sir Daniel Wilson, he was appointed professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Toronto from which he retired in 1927. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1908 and received an honorary LLD from McGill University in 1919 and the University of Toronto in 1941. Wrong died in Toronto, Ontario on June 29, 1948.

A believer in the historian's moral duty to interpret the past for society's present needs, Wrong viewed Canadian history in terms of the country's British and French origins and the American presence. As a teacher, administrator, writer, and a moving force in the early days of the Canadian Historical Association, he helped to provide an intellectual base for a developing Canadian nationality. In 1896-97 he founded the Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada (since 1920 the Canadian Historical Review) and in 1905 he co-founded the Champlain Society. He wrote numerous monographs and texts on Canadian history, the best being A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs (1908). Formal in habit and something of an anglophile in taste, Wrong influenced a generation of students. He received the Royal Society of Canada's J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1929.

Wrong's eldest son Murray was a long-time friend of Vincent Massey.

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