McGill Libraries
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
1.m of textual records
John Herd Thompson was born in Winnipeg in 1946. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg with a B.A. in 1968. In 1969 he earned his M.A. from the University of Manitoba and in 1975 he was granted a PhD. from Queen’s University. A specialist in the history of the Canadian Prairies, he joined McGill’s Department of History in 1971 as a Lecturer and rose to the position of Full Professor. From 1990 he was Professor of History at Duke University. John Herd Thompson wrote The Harvest of War: The Prairie West 1914-1918 (1978), Ethnic Minorities during Two World Wars (1991), and co-authored Loyalties in Conflict: Ukrainians in Canada during the Great War (1983) and Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord (1985).
The fonds comprises of records generated by John Herd Thompson during his years as a Professor at McGill University in the History Department. It consists mainly of correspondence with students and other professors, departmental memoranda, notes, committee minutes and reports.
Deposited by John H. Thompson in 1984 and on July 18, 1990
Box Listing available
Handwritten and typescript