William Kingsford Canadian Historian
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| First Name |
William
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| Last Name |
Kingsford
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| Birthday |
23rd December, 1819
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| Died |
29th September, 1898
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| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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| Nationality |
Canadian
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| Occupation |
Historian
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William Kingsford (23 December 1819 – 29 September 1898) was an English-born Canadian historian. Born in London, England, served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work. He was a self-taught historian, and one of the first to use the archives being gathered in Ottawa. He is best known for his History of Canada in 10 volumes (1887–1898), which was widely read by the upper middle class, as well as Anglophone teachers, despite its poor organisation and pedestrian writing style. Kingsford believed that the Conquest of New France guaranteed victory for British constitutional liberty and that it ensured material progress. He assumed the assimilation of French Canadians into a superior British culture was inevitable and desirable, for he envisioned Canada as one nation with one anglophone population.
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