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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About James Harley Marsh
- James Harley Marsh, CM (born September 10, 1943) is a Canadian editor, writer and encyclopedist. Marsh found his métier in a summer job with educational publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston, learning all aspects of the business from copy editing to the inner workings of the typesetting and printing industries.
- He was the editor of a centennial history of Canada called Canada: Unity and Diversity and of a series of social studies volumes - writing one of them along the way (The Fishermen of Lunenburg). From 1970 to 1980 Marsh was the editor of the Carleton Library Series, a series of scholarly works on Canadian history and social science that made a significant contribution to the growth of Canadian studies in universities.
- In 10 years he edited 60 volumes in the series while co-authoring his first textbook on Canadian history, New Beginnings. After 33 years as the founding editor of The Canadian Encyclopedia, James Marsh retired on March 31, 2013.
- He was described as a 'Canadian who changed the world' by The Globe and Mail newspaper.
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