JMS Careless
James Maurice Stockford Careless (born February 17, 1919 in Toronto , † April 6, 2009 ) was a Canadian historian at the University of Toronto . He earned services in popularizing and disseminating historical materials, worked as an author and consultant, and received the Order of Ontario alongside the Order of Canada . He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada .
life and work
JMS Careless was born in Toronto, where he attended the University of Toronto Schools until 1936 . In 1940 he received a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. On December 31 of that year he married Elizabeth Isobel Robinson, with whom he had five children.
He went to Harvard University , where he took his master’s examination in 1941 and a Ph.D. in 1950. completed. The long break between master’s and doctorate was caused by the Second World War. Careless worked for the historical division of Naval Service Headquarters in Ottawa , then moved to the State Department, the Department of External Affairs . He also worked as a diplomat on the ship MS Gripsholm , a Swedish ship that had been made available to the International Committee of the Red Cross for the exchange of wounded and prisoners between the warring parties.
Careless held his first classes at the University of Toronto in 1945, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Canadian history with a focus on politics, ethnic history, urban history, and intellectual history. In 1949 he became Assistant Professor , 1954 Associate Professor , five years later (full) Professor, 1977 University Professor . In 1959 he was almost simultaneously Chairman of the Department of History (1967) and President of the Ontario Historical Society , and also Vice-Chairman of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario . From 1963 to 1973 he was the curator of the Ontario Science Center and from 1975 to 1981 director of the Ontario Heritage Foundation . In 1984 he retired .
Still, Careless continued to teach. In 1985 he became Senior Fellow Emeritus at Massey College, in 1987 Senior Research Associate at Victoria College and at the same time Donald Creighton Lecturer at the University of Toronto. He lectured in the USA, India , Japan , Australia and Great Britain, he received the Rockefeller Award from Cambridge University in 1955-1956, the Carnegie Award from the Australian Universities in 1958, he was visiting professor at the University of Victoria in the 1968–1969, and finally in 1978 Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra .
In addition, Careless worked on numerous features and film productions as a scientific advisor, such as 1959 for Lord Elgin: Voice of the People , 1961 for John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea , Joseph Howe: The Tribune of Nova Scotia and Lord Durham and Robert Baldwin: A Matter of Principle and William Lyon Mackenzie: A Friend to His Country . He was thus entirely within the framework of government policy, which wanted to deepen the national consciousness of Canadians and their knowledge of their own history with the CBC. This also applied to productions such as Alexander Galt: The Stubborn Idealist and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (both 1962), or the contributions John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance and The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson from 1964 , as well as to Selkirk of Red River , David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker or Alexander Mackenzie: The Lord of the North . In 1987 he was a consultant on the Origins: A History of Canada television series .
With the Governor General's Awards he received his first award in 1953 for his survey of Canadian history, an award he received again for his two-volume biography on the editor of the Toronto Globe . In 1962 Careless received the JB Tyrrell Historical Medal for special merit as a historian, in the same year he became a member of the Royal Society of Canada . In 1967 he received the Cruikshank Medal from the Ontario Historical Society . In 1981 he became Officer of the Order of Canada for his contribution to the broad impact of historical research. In 1987 he received the Order of Ontario after receiving the City of Toronto Award in 1984 and 1985. Eventually he received the National Heritage Award in 1987. There were also numerous university honors.
Careless died on April 6, 2009.
Works (selection)
- Canada: A Story of Challenge , 1953
- Brown of the Globe , Vol. 1 (1959), Vol. 2 (1963)
- Rise of Cities in Canada , 1978
- Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History , 1984
- Frontier and Metropolis , 1989
- Ontario, A Celebration of Heritage , 2 vols., 1991, 1992
- Canada, A Celebration of Heritage , 2 vols., 1994, 1995
Web links
- JMS Careless, University of Toronto
- James Maurice Stockford Careless in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Canadian Who's Who, 1997
- James Maurice Stockford Careless (1919-2009) , The Manitoba Historical Society
Remarks
- ↑ JMS Careless Fund ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ JMS Careless, The Internet Movie Database
- ^ Canadian historian JMS Careless dies , CBC, April 6, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Careless, JMS |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Careless, James Maurice Stockford (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian historian at the University of Toronto |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 2009 |