Desmond Morton (historian)

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Desmond Morton OC, Ph.D., FRSC (1937 -) is a Canadian historian specialized in the history of the the Canadian and political relations and industrial Armed forces of Canada.

Born with Calgary, in Alberta, Morton is graduate royal military Collège of Midsummer's Day and royal military Collège of Canada, after which it obtained a Bourse Rhodos to study with the Université of Oxford then to the London School off Economics. It spent ten years in the Canadian army before beginning its career in teaching.

He is the son of a general Brigadier and the grandson of the general Sir William Otter. Morton is the full professor of the pulpit Hiram Mills with the Université McGill and the former director of the Institut of Canadian studies of McGill in Montreal, in Quebec. Previously, it was the main thing of the Collège Erindale, with the Université of Toronto, 1986 to 1994.

Before beginning its career in teaching, Morton was useful as advising Tommy Douglas and Nouveau Democratic party. It was also to advise for Brian Mulroney and the Progressist-conservatives. Of 1964 with 1966, he was assistant-secretary of the néo-democratic Parti Ontario. After the electoral profit néo-democrat of 1964 in Riverdale, it told the history of this event. Its book, that it entitled The Riverdale Story , described how this determining electoral campaign had succeeded in making leave voters LED has district.

Morton accepted its doctorate with the Université of London. He is the author of twenty-five books on Canada, whose popular has Shorts History Canada off. In 1996, it was decorated Officier about Canada. He is an approved member of the royal Company of Canada. One of its most famous quotations is: “For the Canadians, the battle of Vimy, it is the experiment of the construction of a nation. For several, then and today, it symbolized the fact that the Great War was also the war of Canadian independence…”. It is as known to have defined BA as being “the proof as you can write and read in a professional way”.

Whereas Morton is recognized like an expert in all the fields of the Canadian history, it specializes particularly in the industrial history militiare and of Canada and in nationalisms in Canada. It is one of the only always alive historians personally to have questioned and have studied the veterans of the Rébellion of the North-West of 1869.

Professor Morton continues to serve McGill as a professor emeritus.

Works published

1. Ministers and Generals: Politics and the Canadian Militia, 1868-1904 ISBN 0-8020-5228-2, (1970)
2. The Last War Drum: The North West Campaign off 1885 (1972)
3. Mayor Howland: The Citizens' Candidate (1973)
4. The Canadian General Sir William Otter (1974)
5. NDP The Dream off Power (1974)
6. The Queen Versus Louis Riel ISBN 0-8020-6232-6, (1974)
7. Critical Years 1857-73 (1977)
8. Rebelled in Canada ISBN 0-531-00449-X (1980)
9. The Supreme Penalty: Canadian Deaths by Firing Squad in the First World War (1980)
10. Canada and War: In Military and Political History ISBN 0-409-85240-6, (1981)
11. Labor in Canada (1982)
12. has Peculiar Kind Politics off: Canada' S Overseas Ministry in the First World War ISBN 0-8020-5586-9, (1982)
13. Years off Conflict: 1911-1921 (1983)
14. New France and War ISBN 0-531-04804-7, (1984)
15. Working People ISBN 0-88879-040-6, (1980) (rev. 1984,1990,2003)
16. The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics off Exchange (1986)
17. Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915-30 ISBN 0-8020-6634-8, (1987) (with Glenn T. Wright)
18. Towards Tomorrow: Canada in has Changing World History ISBN 0-7747-1281-3, (1988)
19. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 ISBN 0-88619-211-0, (1989) (2nd ED 1992) (with J.L. Granatstein)
20. has off Military History Canada ISBN 0-7710-6515-9, (1992) (2nd ED. 1999)
21. Morgentaler vs Borowski ISBN 0-7710-6513-2, (1992)
22. Silent Battle: Canadian Prisoners off War in Germany, 1914-1919 ISBN 1-895555-17-5, (1992)
23. When Your Number' S Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War ISBN 0-394-22388-8, (1994)
24. Shaping has Nation: With Shorts History off Canada' S Constitution ISBN 1-895642-10-8, (1996)
25. The United Nations: Its History and the Canadians Who Shaped It ISBN 1-55074-222-1, (1995)
26. Our Canada: The Heritage off Her People 0-8886-6643-8, (1996)
27. Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace ISBN 0-00-255069-5, (1996) (with J.L. Granatstein)
28. Wheels: The Because in Canada ISBN 1-895642-03-5, (1998)
29. Who Speaks for Canada? ISBN 0-7710-6502-7, (1998) (2nd ED. 2001) (with Morton Weinfeld)
30. Working People: Year Illustrated History off the Canadian Ploughing Movement (1998)
31. Canada: In Millennium Portrait ISBN 0-88866-647-0, (1999)
32. Understanding Canadian Defense (2000)
33. has off Shorts History Canada ISBN 0-7710-6509-4, (2001)
34. Bloody Victory: Canadians And The D-Day Campaign 1944 ISBN 1-895555-56-6, (2002)
35. They Were So Young: Montrealers Remember WWII (2002)
36. Canada and the Two World Wars ISBN 1-55263-509-0, (2003) (with J.L. Granatstein)
37. Understanding Canadian Defense (2003)
38. Fight gold Pay' ISBN 0-7748-1108-0, (2004)
39. The Mystery off Frankenberg' S Canadian Airman ISBN 1-55028-884-9, (2005)
40. Ticket For the Face (Ticket for the Face) ISBN 2-922865-40-1, (2005) (French)