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	Noted historian speaks on Canadian Military's future
		Professor Morton is certainly well qualified to speak on Canadian Defence issues - already recognized as one of Canada's foremost military historians, he was recently asked by National Defence Minister Doug Young to offer his ideas on the future of the Canadian Armed Forces.
		The problem, according to Morton, is that "the Canadian Forces have a professional competence that is wasting away." This is due to wages that have been frozen since the end of cold war, poor and out-dated equipment, a bloated officer corps, and the pressures of participating in fifteen special deployments since 1989.
		Professor Morton described the myriad of difficulties facing Canada's Armed Forces, the most pressing being the fact that "we are not remotely ready for any kind of action." This was the observation of General Boyle when the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff was asked to prepare for the Gulf War in 1990.
	www.unb.ca /bruns/9697/news/Issue23/historian.html (622 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Short History of Canada: Books: Desmond Morton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morton achieves very well what he sets out to do - to write a short history for someone with only a small commitment to the subject, a reader looking for the once-over lightly in order to grasp the major moments and recognize the greatest actors.
		Desmond Morton seems to be attempting to tell the history of Canada as a single narrative, but it's simply too long and multifaceted to be coherent.
		Morton is tackling a tough task for sure, attempting to cover the entire history of a complex nation in only 350 (or so) pages.
	www.amazon.ca /Short-History-Canada-Desmond-Morton/dp/0771065094 (1001 words)

	R. W. Thompson: Churchill and Morton - The Churchill Centre
		Sir Desmond Morton was a friend of Churchill’s from 1917 until the end of the Second World War, but perhaps the period of his greatest influence and importance was in the years immediately preceding that war.
		Morton the person is of course able to speak his mind in a manner his official alter ego could not have countenanced.
		Morton does absolve WSC of any blame for the Dardanelles failure during WW I, but he suggests that tactical and strategic errors in WW II made by WSC helped greatly in contributing to England’s loss of power and position in the world.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=59 (1990 words)

	Dr. Desmond Morton's book Who speaks for Canada?
		Morton added that he and Weinfeld are now planning a second volume in order to publish more of the hundreds of pieces that were reluctantly cut from the final version of this book due to space restrictions.
		Desmond Morton, who served in the Canadian military, said Canadians would be naive to believe their defence systems could operate independently of the Americans.
		Morton believes that the national unity problem can be resolved, but that it will require a mixture of firm leadership from the federal government and tolerance on the part of English-Canadians.
	www.wednesday-night.com /DesMortonBook1.htm (1588 words)

	Issues: Perspectives (March 1999): History, Memory, Research, and the Schools
		Perhaps the problem is that historians fail to see what happens in elementary and high school history as a memory project, as heritage.
		While historians' recent spate of work on history and memory has only rarely addressed school history head on, academics in related fields have undertaken research that has a lot to say about these questions.
		While historians make these choices consciously, teachers often proceed without a forum for deliberation and students, too often, assume that their task is simply to learn what has been taught.
	www.historians.org /perspectives/issues/1999/9903/9903TEC2.CFM (2940 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Fight or Pay
		Historian Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories of those who paid in lieu of fighting - the wives, mothers, and families left behind when soldiers went to war.
		In Fight or Pay, renowned historian Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories of those who paid in lieu of fighting - the wives, mothers, and families left behind when soldiers went to war.
		Social and military historians, scholars of gender studies, descendants of First World War families, and anyone with an interest in popular history will find Morton's tale a rich addition to the landscape of Canadian history.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0774811080 (302 words)

	Desmond Morton: Fight or Pay - Cafe Book Blog
		In Fight or Pay, reknowned historian Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories of those who paid in lieu of fighting -- the wives, mothers, and families...
		Desmond Morton, Department of History, McGill University, author of Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War [UBC Press 2004].
		Desmond Morton, Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War...
	www.writerscafe.ca /book_blogs/writers/desmond-morton_fight-or-pay.php (419 words)

	Amazon.com: A Short History of Canada: Books: Desmond Morton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Morton achieves very well what he sets out to do - to write a short history for someone with only a small commitment to the subject, a reader looking for the once-over lightly in order to grasp the major moments and recognize the greatest actors.
		Desmond Morton seems to be attempting to tell the history of Canada as a single narrative, but it's simply too long and multifaceted to be coherent.
		Morton is tackling a tough task for sure, attempting to cover the entire history of a complex nation in only 350 (or so) pages.
	www.amazon.com /Short-History-Canada-Desmond-Morton/dp/0771065175 (1557 words)

	Putting the story back in history
		Historian Desmond Morton, director of McGill's Institute for the Study of Canada, understands why people may be turned off by history.
		Morton says he was bored by history in grades 9 and 10 and preferred to go to the library and read.
		Morton calls history "a user's manual for being Canadian," and says it's important history be taught so that modern problems can be better understood.
	www.carleton.ca /Capital_News/05021999/n3.htm (514 words)

	Desmond Morton (historian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the success of the famous 1964 NDP Riverdale by-election, Morton wrote and published The Riverdale Story, which detailed how the party organizing and canvassing which changed the way campaigns in Canada are run.
		While Morton is widely regarded as an expert in all areas of Canadian history though he specializes in Canadian military and industrial history as well as Nationalisms in Canada.
		Professor Morton continues to serve at McGill as a Professor Emeritus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desmond_Morton_(historian) (733 words)

	Amazon.com: A Military History of Canada: Books: Desmond Morton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Desmond Morton"s "A Military History of Canada" is a well-written survey, in under three hundred pages, of over three hundred years of Canadian participation in conflict, from the Indian Wars to the World Wars to the Cold War.
		Morton's focus is at the strategic level; his narrative is often directed to the interaction between the military and its civilian political leadership.
		As Morton notes, this pattern has tended to leave the Canadian military unready for the next conflict and dependent on first the United Kingdom and then on the United States for much of its day-to-day defense.
	www.amazon.com /Military-History-Canada-Desmond-Morton/dp/0771065140 (1546 words)

	Horn, Michiel. Academic Freedom
		There may be historians who neither see connections between the past, the present, and the future, nor seek to draw them out, but I suspect they are rare.
		In 1977, the historian Desmond Morton wrote that, in spite of the university’s loss of public esteem since the 1960s, one of the institution’s functions continued to be crucially important: “.
		Desmond Morton, “Canadian Universities and Colleges: After the Power Trip, Priorities,” in Hugh A. Stevenson and J. Donald Wilson, eds., Precepts, Policy and Process: Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Education (London, Ont.: Alexander, Blake Associates, 1977), 190.
	www.ucalgary.ca /hic/hic/website/2004vol4no1/forum/horn.htm (6980 words)

	A Short History of Canada
		One of the difficulties facing Canadian historians, especially the ones who write popular books on the subject, is the lack of dramatic moments.
		Commenting on Laurier’s first election victory Morton writes: "Like most revolutions, the political upheaval between 1886 and 1896 changed symbols, not substance." Coming from anyone other than a Canadian historian such a statement would be incomprehensible.
		Arguing for the relevance of Canadian history Morton writes "The choices Canadians can make today have been shaped by history." As an example, "The governors of New France launched arguments that federalists and sovereignists repeat in present-day Quebec." But even this may be less a repetition shaped by history than the same argument being continued.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/ashorthistoryofcanada.htm (907 words)

	Ubcpress.ca :: University of British Columbia Press
		Desmond Morton holds the Hiram Mills Chair in History at McGill University and is the author of numerous books on Canadian military, political, and industrial relations history.
		Desmond Morton has written a work that helps to fill a void of information about a turbulent period in our history.
		Desmond Morton has once again demonstrated his talent for weaving national narrative in this finely crafted account of the experience of soldiers’ families during the First World War.
	www.ubcpress.ubc.ca /search/title_book.asp?BookID=4350 (802 words)

	In the News: Desmond Morton
		Recent reports say Canada is near the bottom of NATO countries in military spending, equipment is outdated and capabilities limited.
		To find out how well armed our forces really are, we turned to historian and military expert Professor Desmond Morton.
		Desmond Morton was interviewed by Montreal writer Sylvain Comeau.
	www.mcgill.ca /news/2003/fall/morton (1729 words)

	BlogsCanada: E-Group - Desmond Morton on political corruption in Canadian history
		Desmond Morton on political corruption in Canadian history
		The June 2005 issue of Policy Options has an essay by historian Desmond Morton reviewing scandals in Canadian history.
		Among the loot was a telegram to Allan from Macdonald that most historians can recite from memory: “I must have another ten thousand.
	www.blogscanada.ca /egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d0930c64-b0a0-4086-a6a9-ba184ebf3b51 (359 words)

	Leon Fink \| New Tidings for History Education, or Lessons We Should Have Learned by Now \| The History Teacher, 34.2 \| ...
		Like Lowenthal and Morton, Seixas prefers a "disciplinary" approach (what Lowenthal simply called "history") where, instead of being told what to believe, students learn disciplinary critieria for what makes a good historical account.
		Seixas is quite aware of the destabilizing impact of postmodernism on disciplinary authority.
		"Postmodernism undercuts the historians' Archimedean stance, calling into question their implicit claim to stand outside the flow of history and their abilities to be impartial observers of the past: all historical accounts are fundamentally positioned and politicized"(p.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/34.2/fink.html (2429 words)

	Rocket always shunned political symbolism
		Desmond Morton, a historian at McGill University, agreed that nationalism wasn't the only thing that sparked the incident.
		Morton suggested The Rocket may have intentionally stayed above the debate.
		The Montreal Canadiens hockey club, and not the Quebec government protocol office, continues to oversee the proceedings.
	slam.canoe.ca /HockeyRocketRichard/may29_pol.html (682 words)

	Dr Desmond Morton wites 'SHARING OUR HISTORY'
		Indeed last year's report on the history curriculum by a strong committee under historian Jacques Lacoursière was admirably open-minded.
		Not only did it urge that history be studied in every year of school, it urged greater prominence for world history, more objectivity and diversity, and greater recognition of everyone, from Native people to recent immigrants, in creating Quebec society.
		An Analysis of Brian Mulroney's case " by Professor Desmond Morton 6KB With update on the Somalia commission July 97
	168.144.69.56 /desmorton2.htm (903 words)

	American bashing, CBC style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Now Morton was once described by left-wing pundit Judy Rebick as a longtime NDP loyalist and he did nothing to counter that description.
		Morton was bitterly disparaging the fact that Ottawa has adopted security measures that would make us more like them.
		Morton voiced the highly dubious claim that Canadians differ with Americans on who's a terrorist and who's a freedom fighter.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/599799/posts (1725 words)

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		Canadian historian Desmond Morton, wrote in his book Silent Battle: Canadian prisoners of war in Germany, 1914-1919 that to a great degree their stories have gone unrecorded and are now forgotten.
		Morton said that on the morning of June 2, 1916 the 3rd Canadian divisional commander Major General M.S. Mercer and Brigadier General Victor Williams of the 8th Brigade (composed of units of the Canadian Mounted Rifles) went to the forward trenches of the high ground in Ypres sector to investigate curious enemy troop movements.
		For two weeks two divisions of the 13th W(rrtemberg Corps had pushed their digging steadily closer to the Canadian lines and British flyers had spotted trenches far behind the German line which strongly resembled the Canadian positions — a hint that they were rehearsing for a coming attack.
	www.homestead.com /heritagepavilionstage/files/the_canadian_prisoner_of_war_experience_in_the_first_world_w.doc (3203 words)

	883 Dr, Desmond Morton
		Desmond Morton and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
		"History is another word for experience," says Professor Desmond Morton, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, the organization responsible for this conference of history stakeholders from across Canada.
		Desmond Morton, veteran Wednesday-nighter, renowned historian and spellbinding speaker.
	www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Wed883DesMorton.htm (3211 words)

	'A monument to the Cold War' - Norad: Watching the Skies - CBC Archives
		That's the opinion of historian Desmond Morton, commenting on Canada's quiet renewal of the Norad agreement.
		Militarily, Morton thinks Norad is a relic, an orphan of a long-forgotten conflict.
		In this commentary on CBC Television's Schlesinger, Morton outlines the uses of Norad for safeguarding political interests.
	archives.radio-canada.ca /IDC-1-71-1552-10474/conflict_war/norad/clip6 (351 words)

	What if We'd Gone to Iraq? :: News :: thetyee.ca
		Although it's true that the Bush administration was responsible for imposing the softwood lumber tariffs, senior officials noted at the time that the administration was forced to do it to maintain support in congress for free trade.
		Further illustrating Morton's point: at the same time as the executive branch sought Canadian support in Iraq, members of both houses of the legislative branch were trying to raise the softwood tariff from 27 to 45 percent.
		Asked if Canadians bring any special credibility to the table, Morton replies, "Only in their own heads." Canadians, in kind with Americans, he explains, like to believe that they are "exceptional, beloved around the world for their kindness and generosity.
	thetyee.ca /News/2006/01/19/GonetoIraq (11179 words)

	Briefly Speaking: Headlines for Week of Jan. 23, 2006
		Desmond Morton, bestselling author, frequent columnist and radio commentator in Canada, will kick off the spring Gerald H. Read Lecture Series on Jan. 25 at 5:30 p.m.
		Morton is an award-winning and bestselling author of 37 books on Canadian political, military and industrial relations history, including Canada: A Millennium Portrait (Edgar Kent, 1999).
		Morton, born in Calgary in 1937, is a graduate of the CollÈge Militaire Royal de St-Jean, the Royal Military College of Canada, the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics.
	einside.kent.edu /?type=art&id=4778& (2153 words)

	Straight Goods - Canada's independent, reader supported on-line source of news you can use
		MONTREAL: Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent and Canadian historian Desmond Morton were surprised to learn last January that they were hosting a conference.
		It began with a few phone calls to see who would be interested in "some kind of small-scale symposium" recalls Lynn Darroch, who works with Morton at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
		Broadbent says that, along with a small team of volunteers, he and Morton have put together an agenda of "crucial" topics for social democrats: political citizenship, social citizenship, and the role of a market economy.
	www.straightgoods.com /item447.shtml (1029 words)

	Engaging the Field: A Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths
		It is to the point where we wake up on June 30th or July 1st each year, fully expecting to see headlines blaring the results of one of your polls.
		It puts kids in the position or role of historian.
		Second, on a policy level, we will still be out there banging our heads against the wall of national standards.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_37_1/ARrudyard_griffiths.htm (2565 words)

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