Desmond Morton (historian)

Professor Desmond Morton, OC , Ph.D , FRSC is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, and the history of Canadian political and industrial relations.

Morton is the Hiram Mills professor of History at McGill University, where he is widely reputed to be a pompous windbag. As well, he is the director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada in Montreal, Quebec. He was Principal of Erindale College, University of Toronto, from 1986 to 1994.

Morton received his doctorate from the University of London. He is the author of over thirty-five books on Canada, including the popular A Short History of Canada ISBN 0-7710-6509-4.

In 1996, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has also said, "For Canadians, Vimy Ridge was a nation building experience. For some, then and later, it symbolized the fact that the Great War was also Canada's war of independence..." edited by Anguel.