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.
Click here to read the Fall 2023 Carolyn Harris Royal Historian Newsletter
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
My new article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Frances Anne Hopkins, an artist who sketched and painted Canadian landscapes. Her most famous paintings, including Shooting the Rapids and Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior, depict long-distance canoe voyages undertaken by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1860s.
My new article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Charlotte Gray, the author of a dozen best-selling Canadian history books and an adjunct research professor in the department of history at Carleton University. She is a recipient of the Pierre Berton Award for distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history.
Her recent books include The Promise of Canada: People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country (2016), Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise (2019) and Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt (2023)
Click here to read my article about Charlotte Gray in the Canadian Encyclopedia
In my latest article for the Canadian Encyclopedia, I discuss the life and legacy of Princess Margaret including her tours of Canada and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.
Click here to read my article about Princess Margaret in the Canadian Encyclopedia
My new article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about Autumn Phillips, the Canadian former wife of Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest grandchild, Peter Phillips.
Click here to read my article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about Autumn Phillips
My new article in the Historica Canada Canadian Encyclopedia is about Princess Anne (HRH The Princess Royal) with a focus on her Canadian charitable work and patronages, official and working visits to Canada and her participation in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Click here to read Princess Anne (HRH The Princess Royal) in the Canadian Encyclopedia
My latest article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and the 1887 Colonial Conference. These occasions set precedents for future royal jubilees and modern Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings.
Click here to read Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee – 1887 in the Canadian Encyclopedia