Weaver, John C.
Biography
John Weaver was born in Stratford, Ontario. A graduate of Queen’s University and Duke University, he joined the History Department at McMaster University in 1974. Since then, he has taught a seminar on the History of the North American; students each year have written research papers about Hamilton. John’s first local study (1978) investigated Westdale: its planning, the home builders, and a profile of residents. Hamilton: An Illustrated History followed in 1981. It received the Regional History Award of the Canadian Historical Association. In 1991, John and Michael Doucet published Housing the North American City which used Hamilton as case study for understanding land development, house construction, home ownership, apartments, and the quality of housing. Crimes, Constables, and Courts covered the institutions of law and order in Hamilton from 1815 to 1970. After a term as Dean of Graduate Studies, his writing shifted to colonization. The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 received the Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association and the Albion Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies. Recently, he published A Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern World. Current interests include global integration and psychiatry.
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Published Work
1995. Crimes, constables and courts : order and transgression in a Canadian city, 1816-1970. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press. (Nonfiction)
1992. [ with Douglas J. Hall & Barbara W. Hamilton] The role of BIA's in municipal decision-making in the city of Hamilton. Hamilton, Ont. : McMaster University, Dept. of Political Science. (Nonfiction)
1991. [with Michael J. Doucet] Housing the North American city. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press. (Nonfiction)
1986. [with Charles M. Johnson] Student days : student life at McMaster University from the 1890s to the 1980s. Hamilton, Ont. : McMaster University Alumni Association. (Nonfiction)
1984. [with Michael J. Doucet] The North American shelter business, 1860-1920 : a study of a Canadian real estate and property management agency. Cambridge, Mass. : Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. (Nonfiction)
1982. Hamilton : an illustrated history. Toronto : J. Lorimer. (Children's)
1981. Crime, violence, and immorality in a pre-industrial society : unlawful acts and law enforcement in the Gore district of Upper Canada from settlement to the railway era. Hamilton : John C. Weaver : for the Osgoode Society.
(Nonfiction)
19--. From land assembly to social maturity : the suburban life-cycle of Westdale, 1911-1951. Hamilton, Ont. : J.C. Weaver. (Nonfiction)
19--. Urban Canada : recent historical writing. Kingston, Ont. : Queen's Quarterly (Nonfiction)
