Bruce W. Hodgins (January 29, 1931 – August 8, 2019) was a Canadian academic historian and author. He was a co-founder of Trent University's history department, a federal

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candidate, and a co-founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum. He was the author of the 2003 book ''Blockades and resistance'' and the co-author of the 1989 book ''Temagami Experience.''

Early life and education

Bruce Hodgins was born on January 29, 1931, in

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. His father, Stanley Hodgins, was a school principal and his mother Laura Belle Hodgins (

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Turel) was a nurse. He had a younger brother named Larry. Hodgins studied at

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and

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and had a PhD from

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where he attended from 1958.

Career

Hodgins taught Canadian history and worked in the history departments of

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and at the

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as well as with Trent University's Leslie M. Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies. He was a specialist in the study of

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, Temagami, Charles Alfred Marie Paradis R/small>, the colonization of Canada, Camp Wanapitei, Canadian federalism, and his home town of

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. Along with Alan Wilson, he was a co-founder of Trent University's history department, where he worked as a professor from 1965, being promoted to associate professor in 1967. He retired in 1996.
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Hodgins was the chair of the National Administrative Committee for the United Nations Association Canada. With John Jennings, Hodgins was a co-founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum. Hodgins was the

candidate for Peterborough—Kawartha in the

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, losing to

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, and remaining an active party member throughout his adult life. Hodgins won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the North in 2000.

Selected publications

* Bruce Hodgins and Jamie Benidickson, ''Temagami Experience'' (1989)

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.LACKENBAUER, P. W. Blockades and resistance: Studies in actions of peace and the Temagami blockades of 1988-89. Canadian Ethnic Studies, '' . l.', v. 37, n. 2, p. 121–122, 2005. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=19471249&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 16 mar. 2023. * Bruce Hodgins, ''Blockades and resistance: Studies in actions of peace and the Temagami blockades of 1988-89'' (2003) Wilfrid Laurier University Press. * ''The Canoe in Canadian Cultures/Bark, Skin and Cedar'' (1999) Natural Heritage/Natural History (co-editor with John Jennings and Doreen Small). * Bruce Hodgins, ''Nastawgan: The Canadian North by Canoe and Snowshoe'' (1995) Betelgeuse Books * ''Changing Parks: The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes (1998)'' (co-editor) Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc.CAMPBELL, C. E. “We All Aspired to be Woodsy”: Tracing Environmental Awareness at a Boys’ Camp. Oral History Forum, '' . l.', v. 30, p. 1–23, 2010. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=57631406&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 16 mar. 2023.

Personal life

Hodgins met Carol, his wife-to-be, in

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, while working at the Prince of Wales College. They had sons Shawn and Geoff and daughter Gillian Nesbitt. He moved to Peterborough, Ontario in 1965 and lived on Engleburn Place. Hodgins was a supporter of the Peterborough Historical Society. With other family members, he was a part owner of Camp Wanapitei, purchased in 1956. Hodgins was one of over 300 people arrested in 1989 for taking part in a protest of a road expansion in Temagami.

Death

Hodgins died on August 8, 2019, at

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, aged 88, after what was presumed to be a series of small strokes.

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