Ernest George Mardon (1928 – 6 March 2016) was an English professor who worked at the

University of Lethbridge The University of Lethbridge (also known as uLethbridge, uLeth, and U of L) is a public comprehensive and research university located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with a second campus in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in the liberal arts traditio ...

. He has several dozen books, mostly on the history of

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, Canada. Born in

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in 1928 to Professor Austin Mardon and Marie Dickey, Dr. Ernest G. Mardon was educated at

Gordonstoun Gordonstoun School ( ) is an elite co-educational Private school (United Kingdom), private school for boarding and day pupils in Moray, Scotland. Two generations of British royalty were educated at Gordonstoun, including Prince Philip, Duke of Ed ...

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, before attending

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. After that he was called up for military service in the

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as an officer with the

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,Biographical note in "The Mormon Contribution to Alberta Politics," Golden Meteorite Press, Edmonton, Alberta, 2011 serving with that outfit in the Suez Canal Zone, Cyprus, Libya, from 1952 to 1954. He was honorably discharged with the rank of lieutenant. He moved to

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in 1954 as Bureau Manager for

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. He taught high school in

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, and then did Doctoral work in Medieval English at the

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. Among the first Faculty of the University of Lethbridge, Dr. Mardon was also a visiting professor at several other Canadian universities. He died on 8 March 2016, in

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, Canada. Mardon's children include the Antarctic researcher and writer Austin Mardon.

Selected works

*Narrative Unity of the Cursor Mundi (1967, 2 ed. 2012) *The Founding Faculty of the University of Lethbridge (1968) *When Kitty met the Ghost (1991, 2 ed. 2012) *The Girl Who Could Walk Through Walls (1991) *Alberta Mormon Politicians/The Mormon Contribution to Alberta Politics (1991, 2 ed. 2011) *Early Saints (1997) *Later Christian Saints for Children (1997) *Many Saints for Children (1997) *A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland (translator, 2010) *Visionaries of a New Political Era: The Men Who Paved the Way for the Alberta Act of 1905 (2010) *Early Saints and other Saintly Stories for Children (2011) *The Conflict Between the Individual & Society in the Plays of James Bridie (2012) *Who's Who in Federal Politics in Alberta (2012)

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1928 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian historians American emigrants to Canada Canadian male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the University of Lethbridge Writers from Houston Writers from Lethbridge People educated at Gordonstoun Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Canada-historian-stub