Veronica Jane Strong-Boag (born 1947 in Prestwick, Scotland) is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of women and children in Canada. She is a Professor Emerita at the

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, where she was Professor of Women's History and the founding Director of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Career and honours

Strong-Boag obtained her BA in History from the

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in 1970, her MA from

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public university, public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to se ...

in 1971, and her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1975. Her PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of

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, was subsequently published as ''The Parliament of Women''. In addition to UBC, she has served as a faculty member at

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in Peterborough, Ontario,

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in Montreal, and

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in Vancouver. She served as president of the Canadian Historical Association from 1993 to 1994. Strong-Boag is the director of the advocacy website ''womensuffrage.org''. Strong-Boag has been award numerous accolades throughout her career. In 1988 she won the Sir John A. Macdonald Award (now the CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize) for her study of the lives of women in Canada between the wars, entitled ''The New Day Recalled''. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 and in July 2012 she became the second woman to be awarded the society's J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal "for outstanding work in the history of Canada." In 2019 Strong-Boag was appointed a member of the

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, with her citation recognizing her as "one of the great trailblazers in the field of Canadian history" whose "professional leadership and her groundbreaking research have made her a key figure in recognizing feminist history in Canada and abroad."Governor General of Canada
"Governor General to Invest 37 Recipients into the Order of Canada During a Ceremony at Rideau Hall."
Retrieved 2020-07-23. She received an honorary doctorate from the

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in October 2018.

Selected bibliography

*''The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1929'' (Ottawa: National Museum, 1976) *''The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada 1919-1939'' (Toronto: Copp, Clark, Pitman and Penguin Books, 1988) *''A History of the Canadian Peoples, Volume 2: 1867 to the Present'', with Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993) *"Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory." ''Journal of the Canadian Historical Association'' 5 (1): 3-17. 1994 *''‘Janey Canuck’: Women in Canada Between Two World Wars, 1919-1939'' (CHA Historical Booklet, 1994) *''Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)'', with Carole Gerson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) *''Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Confronts Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990s'' (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006) *''Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage'' (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010) *''Liberal Hearts and Coronets: The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015)

References

External links

Departmental page, UBC

womensuffrage.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strong-Boag, Veronica 1947 births Living people Historians of Canada 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian biographers Canadian women biographers Social historians Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada University of Toronto alumni Academic staff of the University of British Columbia People from Prestwick Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association Scottish emigrants to Canada 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian academics of women's studies