C. B. Sissons

Charles Bruce Sissons, FRSC (1879 – May 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) with a degree in classics in 1901, taking the gold medal.[1]

Sissons taught in Revelstoke, British Columbia, for four years before coming to Victoria College to teach classics. He retired in 1947[2] and died on May 27, 1965, in Toronto.[1][3]

He received the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1952.

Books
  • Egerton Ryerson: His Life and Letters (volume 1, 1937;[4] volume 2, 1947[5])
  • A History of Victoria University (1952)[6]
  • Church & State in Canadian Education: An Historical Study (1959)[7]
  • Nil Alienum: The Memoirs of C. B. Sissons (1964)[8]

References
  1. McKay, William Angus, ed. (1978). The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography (4th ed.). Macmillan of Canada. p. 774. ISBN 0-7705-1462-6. OCLC 4576673.
  2. Story, Norah (1968). The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 766. OCLC 1150996067.
  3. "Toronto Professor Dies at 85". The Windsor Star. The Canadian Press. May 28, 1965. p. 4 – via newspapers.com.
  4. Morison, J. L. (1938). History. new series. 23 (90): 174–176. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 24401187.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Clark, S. D. (May 1948). The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. 14 (2): 255. doi:10.2307/138014. JSTOR 138014.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Reviews of History of Victoria University:
  7. Moir, John S. (May 1960). The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. 26 (2): 356. doi:10.2307/138668. JSTOR 138668.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. Talman, James J. (1965). Canadian Historical Review. 46 (3): 256–257. doi:10.3138/chr-046-04-br83. ISSN 1710-1093. Project MUSE 568225.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)


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