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Thompson, John Herd, 1946-
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born 1946
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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).
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