James Eayrs

James George Eayrs (born 1926) is a Canadian retired historian. Eayrs won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1965 Governor General's Awards for his book In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression.[1] The book, which examined Canadian military and defence policy during the period between World War I and the Great Depression,[2] was the first in a multi-volume series on Canadian military history, and was followed by In Defence of Canada, Vol. 2: Appeasement and Rearmament (1965),[3] In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (1972),[4] In Defence of Canada: Growing Up Allied (1980)[5] and In Defence of Canada: Indochina, Roots of Complicity (1983).[6]

A professor of history at the University of Toronto and later at Dalhousie University, he was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1984[7] and was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[8]

His wife, Elizabeth Eayrs, served on Toronto City Council from 1972 to 1978.[9]

References
  1. "Council names 5 for awards". The Globe and Mail, April 1, 1966.
  2. "Between the wars, the services fought on". The Globe and Mail, November 28, 1964.
  3. "Was King innocent or statesman?" The Globe and Mail, January 1, 1966.
  4. "Eayrs the rational scholar". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 1972.
  5. "The origin and growth of NATO from the prima ballerina of foreign policy scholarship". The Globe and Mail, March 8, 1980.
  6. "Thankless tasks in the Far East". The Globe and Mail, August 20, 1983.
  7. "Prof. James Eayrs wins prize". The Globe and Mail, November 12, 1984.
  8. "Eayrs, Dube win $50,000 prizes". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 1984.
  9. "In the basements, a campaign is born". The Globe and Mail, November 12, 1974.


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