George MacKinnon Wrong
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George MacKinnon Wrong 1860-1948, Canadian historian. He was professor of history at the Univ. of Toronto from 1894 until his retirement in 1927. He was the author of many works on early colonial American and Canadian history, including The Conquest of New France (1910), The Fall of Canada (1914), Washington and His Comrades in Arms (1921), The Rise and Fall of New France (2 vol., 1928), and Canada and the American Revolution (1935). With H. H. Langton he edited Chronicles of Canada (32 vol., 1914-16).
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