Veronica Jane Strong-Boag

Veronica Strong-Boag, Ph.D, FRSC, is a Canadian historian specializing in the modern history of women and children in Canada. She is currently Professor of Women's History at The University of British Columbia. Having obtained her BA in history from The University of Toronto in 1970, she went on to receive an MA from Carleton University in 1971, and a PhD from The University of Toronto in 1975. Her PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of Professor Michael Bliss, was subsequently published as The Parliament of Women. In 1988 she won the John A. Macdonald Prize (awarded to the best book in Canadian History) for her study of the lives of women in Canada between the wars, entitled The New Day Recalled. In 1993-94 she served as president of the Canadian Historical Association. In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 and won, with Carole Gerson, the Raymond Klibanky Prize from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada for Paddling Her Own Canoe: the Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (2000). In 2003 she received a senior Killam Fellowship; in 2010 the Jules and Gabrielle Leger Research Fellowship in Governor-General Studies; in 2012 the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences from HSSFC for Fostering Nation: Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (2011).