Fred Landon
Fred Landon, FRSC (August 1, 1880 – 1969) was a Canadian historian, librarian, journalist and specialist in Ontario history.[1] He was born in London, Ontario in 1880 and died in 1969. He married twice.
Landon graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1906. For ten years he worked as a journalist for the London Free Press. In 1916 he became chief librarian at the London Public Library where he established a local history collection.
After completing his M.A. in history at the University of Western Ontario, Landon was appointed the university's first full-time librarian in 1923, a position he held until 1946 when he became university vice-president. Professor James J. Talman replaced Landon as university librarian. Landon retired in 1950.
Landon made a significant contribution to the history of Ontario, particularly that of southwestern Ontario, producing over 300 publications, most of which appeared in the periodical Ontario History and Inland Seas. His most notable work was the five volume The Province of Ontario; a history, 1615-1927, co-edited with Jesse E. Middleton in 1928. He pioneered the study of African Canadian history.
Landon served as president of the Ontario Historical Society from 1926 to 1928.
Bibliography
A complete list of Landon's publications was compiled by Hilary Bates in Ontario History, Volume LXII, No. 1, March 1970, 5-16.
- Landon, Fred. "Canadian Opinion of Southern Secession, 1860–61." Canadian Historical Review 1.3 (1920): 255-266.
- Landon, Fred. "The Trent Affalr of 1861." Canadian Historical Review 3.1 (1922): 48-55.
- Landon, Fred. "The American Civil War and Canadian Confederation." (Royal Society of Canada, 1927).
- Landon, Fred. "Some Effects of the American Civil War on Canadian Agriculture." Agricultural History 7.4 (1933): 163-169.
- Landon, Fred. "The Agricultural Journals of Upper Canada (Ontario)." Agricultural History 9.4 (1935): 167-175.
- Landon, Fred. "The Common Man in the Era of the Rebellion in Upper Canada." Report of the Annual Meeting. Vol. 16. No. 1. The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada, 1937. online
- Landon, Fred. "Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: Historian of the South." The Journal of Southern History 5.3 (1939): 364-371.
- Landon, Fred. Western Ontario and the American Frontier (1941).
- Landon, Fred. Lake Huron. Bobbs-Merrill, 1944.
- Landon, Fred. Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967. (Dundurn, 2009).