Name Rocco Gentilcore | ||
Rocco Louis Gentilcore (born Welland, Canada, 1924; died Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1993) was a professor of geography at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Canada. His research was on the historical geography of Canada, in particular settlement development in eastern Canada during the nineteenth century. He edited the second volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada, a three-volume collaborative research and publishing project, undertaken by University of Toronto Press and finished in 1993, which used maps, text and other graphics to explore themes in the history of Canada. In 1989 the ‘R. Louis Gentilcore Prize’ was established on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Geography, McMaster University. In 1994 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His son David Gentilcore is a historian at the University of Leicester.