George Stanley
Canadian historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Colonel George Francis Gillman Stanley was a Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer of the Canadian Flag. Early life and education George F. G. Stanley was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1907 and received a BA from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He went to Keble College, University of Oxford, in 1929 as the Rhodes Scholar from Alberta, and held a Beit Fellowship in Imperial Studies and a Royal Society of Canada Scholarship. He earned a BA, MA, MLitt and DPhil. Always a keen athlete, he played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club, which won the Spengler Cup in 1931. At Oxford, he wrote his book, The Birth of Western Canada: A History of The Riel Rebellions, and began his lifelong work on Louis Riel.
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- The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions (1937) (95)
- The collected writings of Louis Riel (1985) (19)
- The Canadian General Sir William Otter (1974) (19)
- The first Indian "Reserves" in Canada (1950) (16)
- The Caraquet Riots of 1875 (1972) (15)
- My tribe, the Crees (1994) (12)
- E.P. Thompson vs Harold Logan: Writing about Labour and the Left in the 1970s (1981) (11)
- Western Canada and the Frontier Thesis (1940) (10)
- John Clarence Webster: The Laird of Shediac (1973) (10)
- Canada invaded, 1775-1776 (1977) (8)
- The Indians in the War of 1812 (1950) (7)
- Canada's Soldiers 1604 - 1954 The Military History of an Unmilitary People (1954) (7)
- The War of 1812 : land operations (1984) (7)
- The Policy of "Francisation" as Applied to the Indians During the Ancien Regime (1949) (7)
- The Indian Background of Canadian History (1952) (6)
- In search of the magnetic north : a soldier-surveyor's letters from the north-west, 1843-1844 (1955) (6)
- Missing from the Record (1947) (6)
- Act or Pact? Another Look at Confederation (1956) (6)
- Canada's Soldiers. (1956) (5)
- The Indians and the Brandy Trade During the Ancien Regime (1953) (5)
- Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783-1830@@@The War of 1812: Land Operations (1984) (5)
- The story of Canada's flag : a historical sketch (1965) (4)
- The Naval Service of Canada: Its Official History. I. Origins and Early Years. II. Activities on Shore during the Second World War by Gilbert N. Tucker (review) (1954) (4)
- For Most Conspicuous Bravery: A Biography of Major-General George R. Pearkes, V.C., Through Two World Wars (1978) (3)
- The Korean Dilemma (1952) (3)
- American Indian and White Relations to 1830: Needs and Opportunities for Study (1958) (3)
- The Social Credit Back-benchers’ Revolt, 1937 (1960) (3)
- The Half-Breed "Rising" (1936) (3)
- The Métis and the Conflict of Cultures in Western Canada (1947) (2)
- A “Constitutional Crisis” in British Columbia (1955) (2)
- Gabriel Dumont’s Account of the North West Rebellion, 1885 (1949) (2)
- Secrets of Suez (1957) (1)
- The Half-Breed “Rising” of 1875 (1936) (1)
- Sir Thomas Roddick: His Work in Medicine and Public Life by Hugh Ernest MacDermot (review) (1939) (1)
- The man who made Canada: 1865–1867 (1978) (1)
- French and English in Western Canada (1960) (1)
- The Armed Forces of Canada, 1867–1967: A Century of Achievement ed. by Lt.-Col. D. J. Goodspeed, C.D. (review) (1968) (1)
- A Footnote to History: Was Louis Riel an American Citizen? (1948) (1)
- Documents Relating to the Swiss Immigration to Red River in 1821 (1941) (1)
- Failure at Suez (1957) (1)
- Toil & trouble : military expeditions to Red River (1989) (1)
- The flowering of the Acadian renaissance (1981) (0)
- The Papers of Sir William Johnson (1954) (0)
- Book Review: Secrets of Suez (1958) (0)
- Canadian-American Relations in Wartime: From the Great War to the Cold War@@@Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945@@@In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (1976) (0)
- DAWSON, R. MacGregor, William Lyon Mackenzie King, A political biography, vol. I. University of Toronto Press, 1958. 521 p.DAWSON, R. MacGregor, William Lyon Mackenzie King, A political biography, vol. I. University of Toronto Press, 1958. 521 p. (1959) (0)
- Book Review: Missing from the Record (1947) (0)
- Navies in the Mountains: The Battles on the Waters of Lake Champlain and Lake George, 1609-1814With Burgoyne from Quebec: An Account of the Life at Quebec and of the Famous Battle at Saratoga (1964) (0)
- Tecumseh: Vision of Glory (1957) (0)
- BOWSFIELD, Hartwell, ed., Louis Riel: Rebel of the Western Frontier or Victim of Politics and Prejudice? Issues in Canadian History. Copp Clark, Toronto, 1969. 227 p., Bibl. $2.95. (1971) (0)
- The Canadian Army, 1855–1958: Regimental Histories and a Guide to the Regiments comp. by C. E. Dornbusch (review) (1960) (0)
- Rainy River Country: A Brief History of the Region Bordering Minnesota and Ontario by Grace Lee Nute (1950) (0)
- MCNAUGHT, Kenneth, A Prophet in Politics. Biographie de J. S. Woodsworth. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1959. (1960) (0)
- OSLER, E. B., The Man Who had to Hang: Louis Riel. Longmans. 320 p. $5.00. (1962) (0)
- Notes and Comments (1922) (0)
- The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812 by C. S. Forester (review) (1957) (0)
- Dien Bien Phu in Retrospect (1955) (0)
- Richard Veatch. Canada and the League of Nations. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1975. Pp. xi, 224. $15.00 (1976) (0)
- LAMB, R. E., C.S.B., Ph.D. Thunder in the North. Pageant Press, New York, 1957. 355 p. $5.75.LAMB, R. E., C.S.B., Ph.D. Thunder in the North. Pageant Press, New York, 1957. 355 p. $5.75. (1958) (0)
- Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Northwest (1953) (0)
- The Impact of External, Socially Synthetic Forces, such as Mass Media, Video Games, and the Internet on Human Behavior (2007) (0)
- George Croghan: Wilderness Diplomat (1960) (0)
- American Indians and American Life (1958) (0)
- Manpower in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1957) (0)
- Pioneers of Canadian Science: Symposium Presented to the Royal Society of Canada in 1964. Ed. by G. F. G. Stanley. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. xiii + 146 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendices, and bibliography. $5.00.) (1967) (0)
- THOMSON, Dale C., Alexander Mackenzie Clear Grit. The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1960, pp. vii, 436.THOMSON, Dale C., Alexander Mackenzie Clear Grit. The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1960, pp. vii, 436. (1961) (0)
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