Name Veronica Strong-Boag Role Historian | Education University of Toronto | |
Books Fostering Nation?: Canada, Paddling her own canoe, Finding families - finding ou, Liberal Hearts and Coronets, The new day recalled | ||
Veronica strong boag on her award winning book
Veronica Strong-Boag, Ph.D, FRSC (born 1947 in Prestwick, Scotland) is a Canadian historian specializing in the modern history of women and children in Canada. She is currently Professor of Women's History at the University of British Columbia. Having obtained her BA in history from the University of Toronto in 1970, she went on to receive an MA from Carleton University in 1971, and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1975. Her PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of Michael Bliss, was subsequently published as The Parliament of Women. In 1988 she won the John A. Macdonald Prize (awarded to the best book in Canadian history) for her study of the lives of women in Canada between the wars, entitled The New Day Recalled. In 1993–94 she served as president of the Canadian Historical Association. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. In July 2012 the Royal Society of Canada announced that Strong-Boag would be awarded the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal "for outstanding work in the history of Canada".