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Canadian historian (1926–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James George Eayrs, OC, FRSC (13 October 1926 – 6 February 2021) was a Canadian historian.[1]
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Born | James George Eayrs October 13, 1926 London, England |
Died | February 6, 2021 94) (aged |
Nationality | Canadian |
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Discipline | Political science |
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Eayrs won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1965 Governor General's Awards for his book In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression.[2] The book, which examined Canadian military and defence policy during the period between the First World War and the Great Depression,[3] was the first in a multi-volume series on Canadian military history and was followed by In Defence of Canada, Vol. 2: Appeasement and Rearmament (1965),[4] In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (1972),[5] In Defence of Canada: Growing Up Allied (1980)[6] and In Defence of Canada: Indochina, Roots of Complicity (1983).[7]
A professor of history at the University of Toronto[citation needed] and later at Dalhousie University, he was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1984[8] and was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[9]
His wife, Elizabeth Eayrs, sat on Toronto City Council from 1972 to 1978.[10]
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