Fonds F2538 - Donald Mackenzie Schurman fonds

Donald Mackenzie Schurman was born September 2nd, 1924 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served as aircrew in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in 1944-1945. Upon return to Canada he enrolled at Acadia University where he completed a B.A. in 1949, and an M.A. in 1950. He was a member, and fellow, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1955, where he attained his PhD.
Upon completion of his doctoral work Schurman taught at the University of Alberta for 1955-1956, and then Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston from 1956-1966 at which point he moved to Queen's University. Schurman taught at Queen's University for a decade, during which time he became one of the three founding principal investigators of the Disraeli project as well as the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies (1975-1977). Schurman left Queen's University in 1977 and spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of Singapore. Upon his return, he was hired as chair of the history department at RMC, where he stayed until his retirement in 1987. Dr. Schurman passed away in Kingston in June 2013.