- Born: 15 JUL 1902 – Toronto, Ontario
- Died: 19 DEC 1974 – Brooklin, Ontario
- Achievements:
- Won Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- Won Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
- Won Nuffield Foundation Fellowship
- Works:
- Empire of the St. Lawrence 1760-1850 (1937)
- Dominion of the North (1944)
- John A. Macdonald (2 vol.) (1952, 1955)
- Harold Adams Innis: A Portrait of a Scholar (1957)
- The Story of Canada (1959)
- The Road to Confederation (1964)
- Canada’s First Century 1867-1967 (1970)
- Towards the Discovery of Canada (1972)
- Canada: The Heroic Beginnings (1974)
- The Forked Road: Canada 1939-1957 (1976)
- Takeover (1978)
- The Passionate Observer (1980)
- Died: 19 DEC 1974 – Brooklin, Ontario
