Dr. Ian MacPherson (born 1939 in Toronto) is a Canadian historian, and a supporter of the co-operative movement.
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MacPherson received his B.A. from the University of Windsor in 1960. After working as a high school teacher for four years, he returned to school, earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Western Ontario.[1]
MacPherson taught at the University of Winnipeg for 8 years, and helped establish the Canadian Studies program there.[1] In 1976, he moved to the History Department at the University of Victoria, serving as Chair from 1981 to 1989. He became Dean of Faculty of Humanities in 1992, but stepped down in 1999 to establish the B.C. Institute for Co-operative Studies (BCICS). He continues to teach history and serves as director of BCICS.
Although an enormous amount of MacPherson's work has focused on the Canadian and international co-operative movement, he has also written on the nineteenth century Ontario family, Canadian Prairie rural history, urban history, and the history of the Canadian north.
MacPherson has participated in numerous co-operatives, and served on the boards for Consumers' cooperatives in Winnipeg and Victoria, a health co-operative in Winnipeg, a child care co-operative in Victoria, and several credit unions in Victoria, including Pacific Coast Savings.[1] He was a member of the BC Central Credit Union board, the Canadian Co-operative Credit Society, the Co-operative Union of Canada, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), and was the founding President of the Canadian Co-operative Association in 1989. As part of his work with the ICA, he wrote the 1995 revision of the Rochdale Principles adopted at the 1995 ICA Congress in Manchester.[1]
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