Nationality Canadian Died 1970, Toronto, Canada Years active 1906 - 1954 Influenced Harold Innis | Name William Wallace | |
Full Name William Stewart Wallace Born June 23, 1884 ( 1884-06-23 ) Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Occupation Professor, librarian, author Spouse(s) Isabel Dora Graeme Robertson (b. 1883, m. 1913) Children Marcia Wood
Ian Wallace Books The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration | ||
Institutions University of Toronto Institution University of Toronto Education Toronto, Balliol College | ||
W. Stewart Wallace (23 June 1884 – 11 March 1970) was a Canadian historian, librarian, and editor. His historical reference works were considered 'of inestimable value in Canadian studies'.
Contents
Canadian professor of political economy Harold Innis (1894 – 1952) was influenced by a maxim of the then McMaster University professor Wallace, 'that the economic interpretation of history is not the only interpretation but is the deepest interpretation'.
Professional contributions
Dr Wallace was educated at Toronto and Oxford (Master of Arts) universities, and taught history (1906 – 1920) at the universities of Western Ontario, McMaster and Toronto. In 1920 he became an assistant librarian, then in 1923, the librarian at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1954 with title Chief Librarian.
It is given Wallace in total wrote over thirty books and hundreds of articles. The works were not without its critics. Laura Secord is considered a heroine of the War of 1812, a war between the United States of America and Great Britain in Upper Canada (1812 – 1814). Wallace's 1932 study downplayed the importance of her contributions in that war and resulted in great debate: of those contributions, the emerging professional historian, and subsequent interpretive gender bias by historians.
Wallace was the founder and first editor (1920 – 1930) of the Canadian Historical Review, editor (1923 – 1943), president (1943 – 1948), and honorary president (1963 – 1970) of the Champlain Society, honorary editor (1937 – 1945) of the Royal Society of Canada, and a long-standing member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
Writings
Wallace was the author or editor of many noted printed materials, including:
Joint work included:
Some of the publications of or about Champlain Society by Wallace included:
Private life
William George Wallace (b. c. 1858 Georgetown; a Presbyterian minister; son of Robert and Isabella Wallace) and Maggie Marie Stewart (b. c. 1861 Woodstock; daughter of William Boyd and Augusta A. (née Kilborn) Stewart) were married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Thursday, 28 June 1883. Stewart's Scottish-born father was a Baptist pastor and teacher in Ontario. The Reverend William George Wallace MA DD was part of the officers of the inaugural general council in Toronto in June 1925 for the United Church.
Their son William Stewart Wallace was born on Monday, 23 June 1884 in Georgetown. Aged 29, on 24 October 1913 in Ontario, Wallace married Isabel Dora Graeme Robertson (b. 27 October 1883, Toronto), the daughter of James Alexander and Julia Delmage (née Carry) Robertson. They had two children, Marcia and Ian.
During the First World War, he reached the rank of major in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (1915 – 1918), serving overseas, and involved in the Khaki College as the commanding officer.
He retired at seventy years of age and from 1954 was the proprietor of the well-known Dora Hood's Book Room booksellers. Wallace died on Wednesday, 11 March 1970 in Toronto and was buried at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, survived by his wife and children.