George MacKinnon Wrong

George MacKinnon Wrong

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

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, he was appointed Professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He retired in 1927.

In 1886, he married Sophia Hume Blake, the daughter of Edward Blake, Premier of Ontario (1871 to 1872) and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (1880 to 1887). They had five children [cite web|url=http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utarms/about/report2004-2005.pdf|title=Annual Report 2004-2005|work=University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services] : Margaret Christian Wrong (1887-1948) [cite web|url=http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/modernwomen/intro.pdf|title=Modern Women Modernizing Men|work=UBC Press] , Edward Murray Wrong (1889-1928) [cite web|url=http://www.elginogs.ca/newsindexes/timesjournal/sttj1928janthrufeb.htm|title=St. Thomas Times-Journal] , Harold Verschoyle Wrong (born 1891 and was killed in action in the 1916 Battle of the Somme during World War I) [cite web|url=http://kilby.sac.on.ca/ActivitiesClubs/cadets/History/MilitaryOldBoys/WWI/WrongHarold.html|title=Lieutenant Harold V. Wrong] , Humphrey Hume Wrong (1894-1954), and Agnes Honoria Wrong.

elected works

* "The Conquest of New France" (1910)
* "The Fall of Canada" (1914)
* "The United States and Canada: A Political Study" (1921)
* "The Rise and Fall of New France" (1928)
* "Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire" (1935)

References

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External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008733 George MacKinnon Wrong] at The Canadian Encyclopedia


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