death_date death_place children birth_place other_names article_title birth_date spouse known_for image employer name
29 june 1948 toronto , ontario margaret verschoyle wrong , humphrey hume wrong , and agnes honoria christian wrong wrong , edward murray wrong , harold grovesend in elgin county , canada west george mckinnon wrong george mackinnon wrong
 25 june 1860 sophia hume blake , the daughter of edward blake historian george mackinnon wrong2.jpg university of toronto george mackinnon wrong
george mackinnon wrong

george mackinnon wrong , -lrb- june 25 , 1860 -- 29 june 1948 -rrb- was a canadian clergyman and historian .
born at grovesend in elgin county , canada west -lrb- now ontario -rrb- , he was ordained in the anglican priesthood in 1883 after attending wycliffe college .
in 1894 , as successor to sir daniel wilson , he was appointed professor and head of the department of history at the university of toronto from which he retired in 1927 .
he was elected a fellow of the royal society of canada in 1908 and received an honorary lld from mcgill university in 1919 and university of toronto in 1941 .
wrong died in toronto , ontario on june 29 , 1948 .
a believer in the historian 's moral duty to interpret the past for society 's present needs , wrong viewed canadian history in terms of the country 's british and french origins , and the american presence .
as a teacher , administrator , writer and a moving force in the early days of the canadian historical association , he helped to provide an intellectual base for a developing canadian nationality .
in 1896-97 he founded the review of historical publications relating to canada -lrb- since 1920 the canadian historical review -rrb- and in 1905 he co-founded the champlain society .
he wrote numerous monographs and texts on canadian history , the best being a canadian manor and its seigneurs -lrb- 1908 -rrb- .
formal in habit and something of an anglophile in taste , wrong influenced a generation of students .
wrong 's eldest son murray was a long-time friend of vincent massey .
he `` assumed his ecclesiastical robes '' in 1915 to assist in massey 's marriage to alice parkin .
wrong owned a property near canton , ontario .
massey bought the adjacent property in 1918 and converted it into his principal residence , batterwood house , in 1927 .
in 1886 , wrong married sophia hume blake , the daughter of edward blake , premier of ontario -lrb- 1871 to 1872 -rrb- and leader of the liberal party of canada -lrb- 1880 to 1887 -rrb- .
they had five children : educator margaret christian wrong -lrb- 1887 -- 1948 -rrb- historian and oxford academic edward murray wrong -lrb- 1889 -- 1928 -rrb- british army officer harold verschoyle wrong -lrb- born 1891 and killed in action in the 1916 battle of the somme during world war i -rrb- diplomat humphrey hume wrong -lrb- 1894 -- 1954 -rrb- agnes honoria wrong -lrb- 1903-1995 -rrb- the historian rosalind mitchison and the physician oliver wrong were both grandchildren by edward murray wrong .
the sociologist dennis wrong was his grandson by humphrey hume wrong .
all of the wrong children and their father were graduates of the university of toronto .
