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Jack Granatstein
Jack Lawrence Granatstein was born in
Toronto on 21 May 1939. He
attended Le Collège militaire royal de
St-Jean , the Royal Military College,
Kingston, the University of Toronto, and
Duke University, served in the Canadian
Army , then joined the History
Department at York University, Toronto
where, after taking early retirement, he
became Distinguished Research Professor
of History Emeritus. Granatstein was a
member of the Royal Military College of
Canada Board of Governors, and from 1998
to 2000, he was the Director and CEO of
the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Granatstein has been an Officer of the
Order of Canada since 1996 and a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada since
1982. His book, The Generals (1993), won
the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal
for Canadian Biography. Canada’s
National History Society named him the
winner of the Pierre Berton Award for
popular history (2004), and the Canadian
Authors Association gave him its Lela
Common Award for Canadian History in
2006. In 2008, the Conference of Defence
Associations awarded him its 75th
Anniversary Book Prize as “the author
deemed to have made the most significant
positive contribution to the general
public’s understanding of Canadian
foreign policy, national security and
defence during the past quarter
century.” He holds a number of honorary
degrees.
Granatstein writes a monthly newspaper
column for CDFAI and in each issue of
Legion Magazine. He writes on 20th
Century Canadian national history--the
military, defence and foreign policy,
Canadian-American relations, the public
service, and politics and comments
regularly on historical questions,
defence, and public affairs in the media
and speaks frequently here and abroad.
He is the author of numerous scholarly
and popular books and articles.
He lives in Toronto.
Keywords: Canadian
History, Military History, Canada-US
Relations, Defence and Foreign Policy
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