author
G. H. (George Henry) Armstrong
1858–1938
A Toronto teacher turned school inspector, he wrote practical books that helped generations of students with grammar, arithmetic, and Canadian place names. His work has an easy, classroom-minded clarity that still feels useful today.
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English Grammar and Composition for Public Schools
by G. H. (George Henry) Armstrong
About the author
George Henry Armstrong was a Canadian teacher and author born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1858. Sources describing his life consistently identify him as an educator as well as a writer, and note that he entered teaching in 1890.
Armstrong is best known for educational books such as English Grammar and Composition for Public Schools and Arithmetical Problems, along with the reference work The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada. His writing suggests a practical approach shaped by daily schoolroom experience, aimed at helping students and teachers rather than showing off scholarship.
In 1912, he became an Inspector of Public Schools in Toronto. Accounts of his later life also note that when he died in 1938, he left a substantial bequest to the United Church of Canada to support the creation of new churches in and around Toronto.