George Williams Brown

George Williams Brown PhD, LLD, FRSC (1894–1963), was a Canadian historian and editor. Born on April 3, 1894 in Glencoe, Middlesex County, Ontario and died on October 19, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario.

The son of Charles William Brown, a Methodist and United Church of Canada Minister, and Ida Rebecca Brown, he grew up in Southwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. After graduating in history from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1915, he joined the Canadian Army but was invalided out and taught for a year in a Dukhobor community in Saskatchewan. He re-enlisted as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Tanks Corps, but World War I ended before he saw active service. After the War he taught for a year in Saskatoon Collegiate Institute and then went to the University of Chicago, where he received a PhD in history in 1924.

He taught for one year at the University of Michigan and then in 1925 joined the History Department at the University of Toronto, where he taught Canadian and American History. In 1959 he retired and became Professor Emeritus. From 1953 to 1954 he was Canadian visiting Commonwealth Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He served as president of the Canadian Historical Association (1943–44) and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1945. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia in 1952. A gold medal is presented annually in his name to the top graduating history student at Victoria College. A collection of Brown's papers, in particular with reference to his involvement with the Canadian Historical Review, is held in the York University Archives, Toronto.

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