John Herd Thompson (1946July 12, 2019) was a Canadian historian. A leading historian of Canada, Thompson taught North American history at a variety of universities, including Simon Fraser University, McGill University, and Duke University during a 40-year teaching career. After retiring from Duke in 2012, he moved to British Columbia. He died from lung cancer in July 2019.
Thompson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and earned a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in 1975. He co-authored the book Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord along with Allen Seager, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.
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1946 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Canadian historians
Writers from Winnipeg
Canadian expatriate academics in the United States
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Academic staff of McGill University
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