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 Dinner Speaker:
Jack Granatstein
Jack
Lawrence Granatstein was born in
Toronto on May 21, 1939. He attended Toronto public schools, Le College militaire royal de St-Jean (Grad. Dipl.,
1959), the Royal Military College, Kingston (B.A., 1961), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1962), and Duke University (Ph.D., 1966). He served in the Canadian
Army (1956-66), then
joined the history department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where, after taking early
retirement, he is Distinguished Research Professor of History
Emeritus. He was the Rowell Jackman
Fellow at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs
and is a member of the Royal Military College of Canada board
of governors. From July 1998 to June 2000,
he was the director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. He was then special
adviser to the museum's director and is now chair of the museum's
advisory council.
Granatstein writes on 20th Century Canadian
national history, the military, defence
and foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service,
politics, and the universities. He
comments regularly
on
historical
questions, defence, and public
affairs in the press and on radio and television; he provided
the historical commentary on the CBC's
coverage of the 50th and 60th anniversaries of D-Day (1994,
2004), V-E Day (1995), and V-J Day (1995); and he speaks
frequently
here and abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many
films, most recently 'Canada's War' (Yap Films, 2004).
Granatstein was editor of the Canadian Historical Review
(1981-84), and was a founder of the Organization for the History
of Canada.
His
books include The
Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45
(1967), Peacekeeping:
International Challenge
and Canadian Response
(1968), Ties that Bind: Canadian-American Relations in
Wartime (1975), Bloody Victory:
Canadians and the D-Day Campaign
(1984, 1994), Sacred Trust: Brian Mulroney and the Conservative
Party in Power
(1985), A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second
World War (1989), War and Peacekeeping: From
South Africa to the Gulf—Canada's Limited Wars (1991),
Petrified Campus: Canada's Universities in Crisis (1997,
1998), Trudeau's Shadow:
The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau (1998, 1999), and
Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers
(1999, 2000), He is publishing Battle Lines, a collection
of Canadian military first-person accounts (2004) and an illustrated
history of World War II (2005).
Granatstein is married and lives
in Toronto.
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