Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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About Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson
- Stanley Bréhaut Egerton Ryerson (March 12, 1911 – 25 Apr 1998) was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist.
- His parents were Edward Stanley Ryerson and Tessie De Vigne, a well-off middle-class family in Toronto.
- Ryerson could trace his paternal lineage back to Egerton Ryerson, the "Pope of Methodism" in nineteenth century Toronto.
- His grandmother, Emily Eliza Beatty, was a sister-in-law to William McDougall, one of the Fathers of Confederation; and, on his mother's side, he was related to Louis Antoine Bréhaut de l'Isle, French Commander at Trois-Rivières in 1638.
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