William Kingsford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Kingsford

Canadian historian

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1819

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1898

Profession: writer, engineer, historian, author, journalist, civil engineer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

William Kingsford (23 December 1819 – 29 September 1898) was an English-born Canadian historian.
Born in London, England, served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work.
He was a self-taught historian, and one of the first to use the archives being gathered in Ottawa.
He is best known for his History of Canada in 10 volumes (1887–1898), which was widely read by the upper middle class, as well as Anglophone teachers, despite its poor organisation and pedestrian writing style.
Kingsford believed that the Conquest of New France guaranteed victory for British constitutional liberty and that it ensured material progress.
He assumed the assimilation of French Canadians into a superior British culture was inevitable and desirable, for he envisioned Canada as one nation with one anglophone population.