Biographical Data

Bosher, John Francis

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Title Naval Cadet (UNTD) (RCN(R))
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Birth 00/00/1929 Death 03/09/2020
Place North Saanich Place Nanaimo
Area BC Area BC
Country Canada Country Canada
 
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Honours
Awards FRSC
Qualifications BA; MA; PhD;
 
Biography
He was the son of John Ernest Bosher the bulb inspector at the Victoria Experimental Farm. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and gained his Ph.D in History from London University. He taught history at King's College London, UBC, Cornell University and York University. He is the author of a large number of books and academic papers, articles and popular articles.
 
Military Service
He served (drilled) with the with the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers in Sidney BC during the Second World War. (He was too young to enlist but was given a rifle and ammunition to take home.) He was appointed as a Naval Cadet (UNTD) RCN(R) 1948c. He served in HMCS Discovery (Victoria College tender) for UNTD. He served in HMCS Ontario for Sea Training.(He was released.)
 
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Named Features The the John Bosher Award in French History at York University, was named for him.
 
Anecdotes
After a B.A. degree at the University of British Columbia (1950), he joined the Canadian Civil Service in 1951, went to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1953-54 (Diplome d'Etudes superieures d'Histoire), and then the University of London (Ph.D. 1957), where he served at King's College London as Assistant Lecturer (1956-1959), before returning to teach at UBC (1959-1967), going on to Cornell University (1967-1969) and then York University Toronto. Meanwhile, he spent many years in France (a year at a time) doing research in archives at La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Paris, and elsewhere for the half-dozen books he has written in the fields of French and French-Canadian history. (In 2014-2016 he was living in Qualicum Beach BC.)
 
References
http://www.bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/imperial-vancouver-island-who-was-who-1850-1950; http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=10127; Bosher, J.F. (2012);
Last update
2020-09-03 00:00:00

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