Fondo F1251 - William Roger Graham fonds

William Roger Graham was born 19 March 1919, in Montreal. He earned a B.A. in 1941 from Union College (now the University of Winnipeg), an M.A. (1944) and a Ph.D. (1950) in History from the University of Toronto. He began his academic teaching career in 1943 at the University of Toronto and, in 1968, came to Queen's University's Depertment of History, by way of the University of Saskatchewan. While in Saskatchewan he completed his three volume biography of the former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, Arthur Meighen. In 1973, he was named as the next holder of the Douglas Chair of Canadian and Colonial History. In 1984, he retired from the University, as Professor Emeritus, and remained actively engaged in historical research until his sudden death on 17 November 1988.