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George McKinnon Wrong
1860–1948
A pioneering Canadian historian and Anglican clergyman, he helped shape the study of modern history at the University of Toronto and wrote widely on Canada’s past. His books are clear, purposeful works from an era when national history was being actively defined.
3 Audiobooks
The Conquest of New France; A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars
by George McKinnon Wrong
Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence
by George McKinnon Wrong
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
by George McKinnon Wrong
About the author
Born in Ontario in 1860, George MacKinnon Wrong studied at the University of Toronto and was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1883. He later became one of Canada’s best-known historians and is widely noted as the first professor of modern history at the University of Toronto.
Wrong wrote extensively about Canadian history, including the colonial period, New France, and the development of Canada as a nation. His work reached both academic and general readers, and he played an important role in building history as a university discipline in Canada.
He died in Toronto in 1948. Today he is remembered for helping establish the serious study of Canadian history and for producing books that introduced many readers to the country’s past.