George Woodcock was a noted Canadian scholar and author of Gabriel Dumont, the biography of the famous Métis leader, as well as of more than fifty other volumes of biography, history, criticism, and poetry. He taught at the Universities of Washington and British Columbia, and edited Canadian Literature-which he founded-from 1959 to 1977.

George Woodcock was a noted Canadian scholar and author of Gabriel Dumont, the biography of the famous Métis leader, as well as of more than fifty other volumes of biography, history, criticism, and poetry. He taught at the Universities of Washington and British Columbia, and edited Canadian Literature-which he founded-from 1959 to 1977.