W.L. Morton was Vanier Professor of History at Trent University from 1966 to 1975 and is once more Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, now on a post-retirement basis to lead a seminar in the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He was awarded the Tyrrel Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 1968, and made an Office of the Order of Canada in 1969. He is the author of The Canadian Identity and The Progressive Party in Canada.