James Eayrs

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Person.png James Eayrs  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(historian)
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Born13 October 1926
London, England
Died6 February 2021 (Age 94)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUpper Canada College, Lakefield College School, University of Toronto, Columbia University, London School of Economics
Canadian historian of Canadian foreign policy who attended the 1967 Bilderberg

James Eayrs was a Canadian historian of Canadian foreign policy who attended the 1967 Bilderberg.[1] A prolific and influential author in the field of 20th-century Canadian foreign policy and diplomacy, his multi-volume In Defence of Canada won the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction in 1965.[2]

Early life

Born October 13, 1926 in London, England to an American father, E.K. Wild, and an English mother, Dora Whitefield, he became a Canadian citizen in 1933 following his mother's re-marriage to Hugh Eayrs, president of the publishing firm Macmillans of Canada headquartered in Toronto.[2]

Educated first at Upper Canada College and Lakefield College School, he was in the Royal Canadian Navy based in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the final phases of WWII, continuing his studies at the University of Toronto, Columbia University and the London School of Economics, where he earned his PhD.[2]

Career

His first academic appointment in 1951 was as Lecturer at United College, Winnipeg followed by a lengthy and distinguished career as Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto from 1952 to 1980. He then joined the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie in Halifax until his retirement in 1992.[2]

He also became a nationally syndicated columnist, first for the Montreal Star and latterly for the Toronto Star under the editorship of Peter Newman. His journalism led to broadcasting, first as a writer for the CTV series Here Come the Seventies, then as co-host with Charlotte Gobeil of the CBC national public affairs programme, Weekend.[2]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/196731 March 19672 April 1967St John's College (Cambridge)
UK
United Kingdom
Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)
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