Barry M. Gough
Encyclopedia
Barry Morton Gough is a Canadian maritime and naval historian. In more than a dozen books, and several hundred articles and reviews, he has worked to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history. Active in national and international venues, Gough has made in the British Columbia context a number of monographic contributions to ethnohistory, cross-cultural relations, patterns of missionary acceptance among Northwest Coast peoples, frontier/borderland studies, and environmental history.
, the University of Montana and King's College London
. He was tutored in the maritime foundations of imperial history by G. S. Graham
, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History
in the University of London. In addition to his earned doctorate, Gough was awarded the D.Litt. from University of London for distinguished contributions to Imperial and Commonwealth history. His thesis research on the Esquimalt naval base and British strategic matters in the North Pacific was published in 1971 as The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North America.
in Bellingham, WA, and Co-director of the Centre for Pacific Northwest Studies. From 1972 to 2004 at Wilfrid Laurier University
in Waterloo, Ont., he was Associate Professor, Professor and University Research Professor. Founding director of Canadian Studies at Laurier, he was Assistant Dean of Arts from 2000-2003 and on retirement was appointed University Professor Emeritus.
His printed studies are used in a variety of academic curricula and teaching contexts. One such example, from 1998, is "Possessing Meares Island" in The Journal of Canadian Studies. Gough was advisory editor to Macmillan Publishing for World Explorers and Discoverers (1992)) and to Scribner’s for Explorers: From Ancient Times to the Space Age (1998), and was editor of the magazine American Neptune
based at Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts (1997-2003).
His contract work in history has included Great Lakes shipwrecks research, the Meares Island case for the Nuu Chah Nulth, and the Alaska inland waters case on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Since 2007, he has been Adjunct Professor of War Studies and History, Royal Military College of Canada
in Kingston, Ont. Gough has had visiting appointments and lectureships at University of Otago
, Duke University
, the University of British Columbia, Australian National University
, University of Natal
, National University of Singapore
, King's College University of London, and the Scott Polar Research Institute
, Cambridge, U.K.
. Recent special fellowships include Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K., and Senior Research Fellow, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, B.C. He is also a Serving Brother of the Order of St. John
.
He is Vice-President of the British Columbia Historical Federation
, Past President of the Canadian Nautical Research Society
, Past President of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Vancouver Island, and past member of the Board of Academic Advisers, The Churchill Centre, Chicago. He is a Life Member of the Association of Canadian Studies, a founding member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and past chair of the joint committee, American Historical Association – Canadian Historical Association.
Gough is actively engaged in advancing the interests of the Maritime Museum of BC and Craigdarroch Castle
Heritage Society in Victoria, B.C., and of the Vancouver Maritime Museum
in Vancouver, B.C. He lectures on maritime and naval topics and on Canadian history and public affairs, is on the board of a society for the advancement of up-and-coming jazz musicians and performs as a jazz clarinetist.
, B.C. Book Prizes, and the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing given by the British Columbia Historical Federation.Historical Dreadnoughts: Arthur Marder, Stephen Roskill and Battles for Naval History was chosen by the Canadian Nautical Research Society for its 2010 Keith Matthews Award, named in honour of the society's first president to recognize outstanding publications in the field of nautical research. Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890 won the same award in 1985, and The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and Discoveries to 1812 earned honourable mention in 1993.
Education
Gough was educated at Victoria High School, the University of British ColumbiaUniversity of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
, the University of Montana and King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
. He was tutored in the maritime foundations of imperial history by G. S. Graham
Gerald S. Graham
Gerald Sandford Graham was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970...
, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History
Rhodes Professor of Imperial History
The Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History is one of the senior professorships in History at King's College London and was endowed by the Rhodes Trust in 1919. After the Beit Professorship of Colonial History at Oxford , it is the second oldest chair in its subject in the world.-List of...
in the University of London. In addition to his earned doctorate, Gough was awarded the D.Litt. from University of London for distinguished contributions to Imperial and Commonwealth history. His thesis research on the Esquimalt naval base and British strategic matters in the North Pacific was published in 1971 as The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North America.
Teaching and consulting
Initially on the teaching staff of Vic High in Victoria, B.C., Gough became in turn Lecturer, Assistant and Associate Professor, Western Washington UniversityWestern Washington University
Western Washington University is one of six state-funded, four-year universities of higher education in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in Bellingham and offers bachelor's and master's degrees.-History:...
in Bellingham, WA, and Co-director of the Centre for Pacific Northwest Studies. From 1972 to 2004 at Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
in Waterloo, Ont., he was Associate Professor, Professor and University Research Professor. Founding director of Canadian Studies at Laurier, he was Assistant Dean of Arts from 2000-2003 and on retirement was appointed University Professor Emeritus.
His printed studies are used in a variety of academic curricula and teaching contexts. One such example, from 1998, is "Possessing Meares Island" in The Journal of Canadian Studies. Gough was advisory editor to Macmillan Publishing for World Explorers and Discoverers (1992)) and to Scribner’s for Explorers: From Ancient Times to the Space Age (1998), and was editor of the magazine American Neptune
American Neptune
The American Neptune: a quarterly journal of maritime history and arts was the leading academic journal for the field of American maritime history from its establishment in 1941 until it ceased publication in 2002.- History :...
based at Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts (1997-2003).
His contract work in history has included Great Lakes shipwrecks research, the Meares Island case for the Nuu Chah Nulth, and the Alaska inland waters case on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Since 2007, he has been Adjunct Professor of War Studies and History, Royal Military College of Canada
Royal Military College of Canada
The Royal Military College of Canada, RMC, or RMCC , is the military academy of the Canadian Forces, and is a degree-granting university. RMC was established in 1876. RMC is the only federal institution in Canada with degree granting powers...
in Kingston, Ont. Gough has had visiting appointments and lectureships at University of Otago
University of Otago
The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...
, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, the University of British Columbia, Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
, University of Natal
University of Natal
The University of Natal was a university in Natal, and later KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, that is now part of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It was founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, and expanded to include a campus in Durban in 1931. In 1947, the university...
, National University of Singapore
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
, King's College University of London, and the Scott Polar Research Institute
Scott Polar Research Institute
The Scott Polar Research Institute is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge ....
, Cambridge, U.K.
Affiliations and affinities
Barry Gough is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of King's College University of London and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary InternationalRotary International
Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
. Recent special fellowships include Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K., and Senior Research Fellow, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, B.C. He is also a Serving Brother of the Order of St. John
Venerable Order of Saint John
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem , is a royal order of chivalry established in 1831 and found today throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, Hong Kong, Ireland and the United States of America, with the world-wide mission "to prevent and relieve sickness and...
.
He is Vice-President of the British Columbia Historical Federation
British Columbia Historical Federation
The British Columbia Historical Federation encourages interest in the history of British Columbia through research, presentation, and support.The Federation provides a collective voice for its member societies....
, Past President of the Canadian Nautical Research Society
Canadian Nautical Research Society
The The Canadian Nautical Research Society / Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique was originally established as the Canadian Society for the Promotion of Nautical Research, then incorporated 25 October 1984 under its current name and achieved the status of a registered charity shortly...
, Past President of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Vancouver Island, and past member of the Board of Academic Advisers, The Churchill Centre, Chicago. He is a Life Member of the Association of Canadian Studies, a founding member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and past chair of the joint committee, American Historical Association – Canadian Historical Association.
Gough is actively engaged in advancing the interests of the Maritime Museum of BC and Craigdarroch Castle
Craigdarroch Castle
Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, is a historic, Victorian-era Scottish Baronial mansion. The mansion was designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to its landmark status in Victoria.-Description:...
Heritage Society in Victoria, B.C., and of the Vancouver Maritime Museum
Vancouver Maritime Museum
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a Maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Canadian Arctic. Opened in 1959 as a Vancouver centennial project, it is located within Vanier Park just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. The main...
in Vancouver, B.C. He lectures on maritime and naval topics and on Canadian history and public affairs, is on the board of a society for the advancement of up-and-coming jazz musicians and performs as a jazz clarinetist.
Awards
Gough was recipient of the Psi Upsilon Distinguished Service Alumnus Award and the Wilfrid Laurier University Alumni Hoffmann-Little Award for Outstanding Teaching and his writings have won critical acclaim and awards within Canada and abroad. Prizes have included the Clio Prize of the Canadian Historical Association and medals, awards and honourable mentions from various organizations: the North American Society for Oceanic History,, the Writers Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional PrizeRoderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
The Roderick Haig-Brown Prize is part of the BC Book Prizes, awarded in celebration of the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. It is awarded to the author of books who "contributes most to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". No requirements in terms of...
, B.C. Book Prizes, and the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing given by the British Columbia Historical Federation.Historical Dreadnoughts: Arthur Marder, Stephen Roskill and Battles for Naval History was chosen by the Canadian Nautical Research Society for its 2010 Keith Matthews Award, named in honour of the society's first president to recognize outstanding publications in the field of nautical research. Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890 won the same award in 1985, and The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and Discoveries to 1812 earned honourable mention in 1993.
Published works
Gough is planning further books in naval and Northwest Coast history. Of his previous books, he has said his favourite subject as author is Sir Alexander Mackenzie, whose life he wrote in 1997 as First Across the Continent.Selected bibliography
- The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North America, 1810-1914: A Study of British Maritime Ascendancy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1971. ISBN 0774800003.
- Canada. Modern Nations in Historical Perspective Series. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 1975. ISBN 0131127896.
- The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade and Discoveries to 1812. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992. ISBN 0774803991; first edition appeared as Distant Dominion (UBC Press, 1980).
- The Falkland Islands/Malvinas: Struggle for Empire in the South Atlantic. London: Continuum, 1992/Athlone Press, 1992. ISBN 9780485114195.; Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. ISBN 9780771034060.
- Britain, Canada and the North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise and Dominion, 1778-1914. Ashgate Variorum, 2004. ISBN 086078939X.
- Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1550174282.
- Historical Dreadnoughts: Arthur Marder, Stephen Roskill and Battles for Naval History. Seaforth/Pen and Sword, 2010. ISBN 9781848320772.
- Introduction to Andrew David, ed., William Robert Broughton’s Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798. London: Hakluyt Society, 2010. ISBN 9780904180978.; 2nd edition, 2011.
External links
- http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=165 North American Studies
- http://hmcshaida.ca/hhistory.html HMCS Haida
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/imperial-commonwealth-history.htm Imperial and Commonwealth History
- http://www.acsus.org/ Association for Canadian Studies in the United States