Charles Bruce Sissons,
FRSC (1879May 27, 1965) was a Canadian historian.
Charles Bruce Sissons was born in 1879 in Crown Hill, Ontario (now part of
Springwater). He graduated from Victoria College (now
Victoria University, Toronto
Victoria University is a federated university forming part of the wider University of Toronto, and was founded in 1836.
The undergraduate section of the university is Victoria College, informally ''Vic'', after the original name of the univers ...
) with a degree in classics in 1901, taking the gold medal.
Sissons taught in
Revelstoke, British Columbia
Revelstoke () is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, with a census population of 8,275 in 2021. Revelstoke is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just sout ...
, for four years before coming to Victoria College to teach classics. He retired in 1947
and died on May 27, 1965, in Toronto.
He received the
J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal The J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "for outstanding work in the history of Canada." It was established in 1927, endowed by the Canadian geologist and amateur historian Joseph Burr Tyrrell. The medal is ...
in 1952.
Books
* ''Egerton Ryerson: His Life and Letters'' (volume 1, 1937; volume 2, 1947)
* ''A History of Victoria University'' (1952)
* ''Church & State in Canadian Education: An Historical Study'' (1959)
*''Nil Alienum: The Memoirs of C. B. Sissons'' (1964)
References
External links
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1879 births
1965 deaths
20th-century Canadian historians
20th-century Canadian male writers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
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