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{{Short description|Canadian historian (1937–2019)}}
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| death_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| party = [[New Democratic Party]]
| spouse = {{ubl | {{marriage|Janet Smith|1967|1990|end=died}} | {{marriage|Gael Eakin|1999}}}}
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'''Desmond Dillon Paul Morton''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|CD|FRSC}} (
== Life and career ==
Born on September 10, 1937,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phIQbS5U-TkC&q=Desmond+Morton+September+10,++1937|title=Contemporary Authors|isbn=9780810300354|last1=Evory|first1=Ann|date=April 1978}}</ref> in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Morton was the son of a Brigadier General, and the grandson of General [[William Dillon Otter|Sir William Dillon Otter]]. A [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]] at [[Keble College, Oxford]], Morton was a graduate of the [[Collège militaire royal de St-Jean]], the [[Royal Military College of Canada]], and the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="MISC Bio">{{cite web|year=2011|title=MISC Instructors: Desmond Morton|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/misc/undergraduate/cans/lecturers/|url-status=dead|
Morton was the [[Hiram Mills]] Professor of History at [[McGill University]], as well as the founding director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, established in 1994, in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].<ref name="McGill Bio" /> Following his retirement, he continued to serve at McGill as a [[professor emeritus]].<ref name="McGill Bio" /> Prior to that, he was Principal of [[University of Toronto Mississauga|Erindale College]], [[University of Toronto]], from 1986 to 1994.
Before beginning his teaching career, Morton served as an advisor to [[Tommy Douglas]] of the [[New Democratic Party of Canada|New Democratic Party]]. From 1964 to 1966, he served as assistant secretary of the [[Ontario New Democratic Party]]. After the success of the famous 1964 NDP [[Riverdale, Toronto##Provincial politics|Riverdale by-election]], Morton wrote and published ''The Riverdale Story'', which detailed how the party's organizing and canvassing changed the way campaigns in Canada are run. In the 1970s he worked with [[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis]], [[Stephen Lewis]], and other party leaders to oppose [[The Waffle]], a left-wing faction within the NDP.<ref name="Unity">
{{Cite news|date=1971-04-21|title=NDP 'Unity' Group Is Out to Crush Party's Waffler|page=10|newspaper=The Toronto Star}}</ref> In the 1980s he informally advised [[Brian Mulroney]] of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives]].{{cn|date=March 2021}}
Morton was the author of over thirty-five books on Canada, including the popular ''A Short History of Canada''. In 1994 he won the [[C.P. Stacey Prize]] for his history of Canadian soldiers during the [[
In 1996, he was
Morton's widow Gael Eakin, to whom he was married for 20 years, announced that he died on September 4, 2019, six days short of his 82nd birthday.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/desmond-morton-historian-1.5271672 Desmond Morton, historian and McGill University professor, dead at 81]</ref>
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* ''Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace'', {{ISBN|0-00-255069-5}}, (1996) (with [[J. L. Granatstein]])
* ''Wheels:The Car in Canada'', {{ISBN|1-895642-03-5}}, (1998)
* ''Who Speaks for Canada?'', {{ISBN|0-7710-6502-7}}, (1998) ''(2nd Ed. 2001)'' (with [[Morton Weinfeld]])
* ''Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement'' (1998)
* ''Canada: A Millennium Portrait'', {{ISBN|0-88866-647-0}}, (1999)
* ''Understanding Canadian Defence'' (2000)
* ''A Short History of Canada'', {{ISBN|0-7710-6509-4}},(2001)
* ''Bloody Victory
* ''They Were So Young: Montrealers Remember WWII'' (2002)
* ''Canada and the Two World Wars'', {{ISBN|1-55263-509-0}}, (2003) (with [[J.L. Granatstein]])
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* ''The Mystery of Frankenberg's Canadian Airman'', {{ISBN|1-55028-884-9}}, (2005)
* ''Billet Pour le Front'' ''(Ticket for the Front)'', {{ISBN|2-922865-40-1}}, (2005) (French)
* "Is History Another Word for Experience?
==References==
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== External links ==
{{Archival records|title=Desmond Morton fonds}}
* [https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/desmond-morton-fonds Desmond Morton archival papers] held at the [https://utarms.library.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services]
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