Reginald George Trotter, FRSC (14 July 1881– 7 April 1951) was a Canadian historian. He was the Douglas Professor in Canadian and Colonial History at

Queen's University, Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Suss ...

from 1924 until his death. He was President of the

Canadian Historical Association The Canadian Historical Association (CHA; French ''Société historique du Canada'', SHC) is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. It is a bilingual, not-for-profit, charitable ...

for 1938–39. 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 1949. The mathematician

Hale Trotter Hale Freeman Trotter (30 May 1931 – 17 January 2022)biographical information from ''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale 2004 was a Canadian-American mathematician, known for the Lie–Trotter product formula, the Steinhaus–Johns ...

was his son.

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