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Name
  
Norman Hillmer


Role
  
Historian

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Education
  
University of Cambridge, University of Toronto

Books
  
Empire to umpire, O D Skelton, Canada's International Policies, The Land Newly Found: E, First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts

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George Norman Hillmer CM (born 1942 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a leading Canadian historian and teacher and is among the leading scholars on Canada-US relations.

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Hillmer completed his B.A. (Hons) and his M.A. in history at the University of Toronto in 1966 and 1967, respectively, before going on to earn a Ph.D. from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1974. During this period, he also worked as an assistant to former Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who was then working at Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. In 1972, Hillmer joined the Directorate of History at Canada's Department of National Defence as a staff historian. He rose to become the acting director of the directorate before shifting in 1990 to a full-time career as a professor of History and International Affairs at Carleton University, a position he continues to hold.

Hillmer collaborates with other scholars on many of his book projects, often with the respected Canadian historian J.L. Granatstein.

In December 2016, Hillmer was named a Member of the Order of Canada.

Selected recent publications

  • Negotiating Freer Trade: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the Trade Agreements of 1938, 1989 [with Ian M. Drummond].
  • For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the l990s, 1991 [with J. L. Granatstein].
  • Empire to Umpire: Canada and the World to the 1990s, 1994 [with J. L. Granatstein].
  • Elder Daughter of the Empire: A History of Canadian-British Relations, 1713-1982 (in Japanese),1997 [with Kazuo Kimura and P. A. Buckner].
  • "O. D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941", McGill-Queens University Press, 2014
  • "O. D Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition", University of Toronto Press, 2015
  • Hillmer, Norman; Granatstein, J L (1999). Prime ministers: ranking Canada's leaders. Toronto: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-200027-7. OCLC 41432030.  Also ISBN 978-0-00-638563-9.
  • References

    Norman Hillmer Wikipedia