The Spring 2024 Carolyn Harris Royal Historian newsletter includes links to my recent articles and interviews as well as registration information for my 2024-2025 courses at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.
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My new article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about David Ross McCord, lawyer, alderman, military officer, collector and museum founder. McCord amassed a collection of roughly 15,000 artifacts related to Indigenous peoples and Canadian history and culture, which he presented to McGill University in 1919. The collection was made accessible to the public with the opening of the McCord National Museum in 1921 (now part of the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal).
Click here to read my new article about David Ross McCord, part of the Montreal History and Heritage Collection of the Canadian Encyclopedia.
Click here to read all 95 of my articles in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
My latest article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about King Louis XIV and his role in the development of New France. Click here to read my article about King Louis XIV.
King Louis XIV, king of France (born 5 September 1638 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France; died 1 September 1715 in Versailles, France). Louis XIV was the longest-reigning monarch in European and Canadian history, serving as the king of France for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715) — nearly two years longer than the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1663, Louis XIV assumed direct control of New France as a Crown Colony, sponsoring increased immigration, regulating the fur trade and creating a stronger French military presence in the region. Despite these efforts, Louis XIV’s military and diplomatic endeavours — including repeated wars with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), as well as the War of the Spanish Succession and the Treaty of Utrecht — shifted the balance of power in North America. This created the eventual conditions for the British conquest of New France with the support of the Iroquois during the Seven Years’ War of 1756–63.
My latest article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about Canadian Impressionist artist Laura Muntz Lyall (1860-1930). Muntz Lyall was the first Canadian artist to receive an honourable mention at the Paris Salon and the first female Canadian Impressionist artist to have her work become part of the National Gallery of Canada’s collection in Ottawa.
Click here to read my article on Laura Muntz Lyall in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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My new article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about Robert Sympson Jameson, the last British-appointed attorney general of Upper Canada (1833–1837) and the first speaker of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada (1841–1843).
Click here to read my article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about Robert Sympson Jameson
I also recently wrote a Canadian Encyclopedia article about Robert Sympson Jameson’s famous wife, Anna Brownell Jameson, an art historian, feminist and author of numerous books including Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838). Click here to read my article on Anna Brownell Jameson in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
My new article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about Frederick William Beechey, Arctic explorer, naval officer, hydrographer, artist and author. Beechey sailed with Sir John Franklin and William Edward Parry and made many sketches of the Arctic. Lake Beechey, Nunavut, and Beechey Point, Alaska, were named in his honour. Beechey was also a godson of the future King William IV, the first member of the royal family to visit what is now Canada.
Click here to read my article about Frederick William Beechey in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
I also recent wrote a Canadian Encyclopedia article about Frederick William Beechey’s daughter, Frances Anne Hopkins, who became a prominent Canadian artist.
My new article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about Anna Brownell Jameson, an nineteenth century artist, art historian, traveler, feminist and author of numerous books including Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838).
Click here to read my article about Anna Brownell Jameson in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Links to all 90 of my articles in the Canadian Encyclopedia are available here.
The Fall 2023 Carolyn Harris Royal Historian Newsletter is now available online including links to my recent articles in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia, recent media interviews and information about my Fall 2023 courses at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.
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My new article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Robert Laidlaw MacMillan, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and co-founder of the world’s first coronary care unit in 1962. MacMillan is the father of acclaimed historian and author, Margaret MacMillan.
Click here to read my article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about Robert Laidlaw MacMillan
Click here to read my article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about Margaret MacMillan
My new article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Isabel Mackenzie King, the daughter of 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion leader William Lyon Mackenzie and mother of Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Click here to read my article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about Isabel Mackenzie King