Desmond Morton (historian): Difference between revisions

Born in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Morton is the son of a Brigadier General, and the grandson of General [[William Dillon Otter|Sir William Dillon Otter]]. He is a graduate of the [[Collège militaire royal de St-Jean]], the [[Royal Military College of Canada]], a [[Rhodes Scholar]], [[Keble College, Oxford]], and the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="MISC Bio">{{cite web|title=MISC Instructors: Desmond Morton |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/misc/undergraduate/cans/lecturers/ |work=McGill Institute for the Study of Canada |publisher=McGill University |accessdate=2011-10-30 |archiveurl=https://wwwarchive.webcitation.orgtoday/20111031013824/62pmUmHnW?url=http://www.mcgill.ca/misc/undergraduate/cans/lecturers/ |archivedate=2011-10-31 |location=Montreal |year=2011 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Preston |first=Richard A. |year=1991 |title=To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College Since the Second World War |location=Oxford |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |page=65 |isbn=978-0-7766-0327-8}}</ref> He spent ten years in the [[Canadian Army]] (1954&ndash;1964 retiring as a Captain) prior to beginning his teaching career.<ref name="MISC Bio"/> He was named [[Honorary Colonel]] of 8 Wing of the Canadian Air Force at [[CFB Trenton]] in 2002. He received the [[Canadian Forces Decoration]] in 2004 for 12 years total military service.<ref name="MISC Bio"/>

Morton is the [[Hiram Mills]] Professor of History at [[McGill University]], as well as the past director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].<ref name="McGill Bio">{{cite web|title=Desmond Morton |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/history/faculty/staff/retired/morton |work=History and Classical Studies |publisher=McGill University |accessdate=2011-10-30 |archiveurl=https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/62pm0BfK5?url=web/20140814232405/http://www.mcgill.ca/history/faculty/staff/retired/morton |archivedate=20112014-1008-3114 |location=Montreal |year=2011 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> As of fall 2011, he continues 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.