Morris Zaslow

MORRIS ZASLOW (1918–2013) taught at Carleton University, University of Toronto and was professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. He was the editor of The Defended Border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812, of the General Series of the Champlain Society, and former editor of Ontario History and the Issues in Canadian History Series. Born in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, he received his B.A. and B.ED. at the University of Alberta. After serving with the RCAF, he completed his M.A. and PH.D. in history at the University of Toronto. He wrote extensively on the history of Northern Canada, an interest sparked by childhood experiences on the Prairies in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Edmonton was the centre for bush flying and mining activities in the Northwest and “The Gateway to the North.”