Robert W PassfieldRobert W. Passfield is a retired public historian who has published in the fields of industrial archaeology, public works history, heritage conservation, and intellectual history. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario (Honours History, 968) and from McMaster University (MA, 1969), where he also pursued PhD studies in Canadian History and three minor fields: political philosophy, modern European history and diplomatic history. In graduate school he undertook to prepare a dissertation on 'The Upper Canadian Tory Mind', which was to focus on the Anglican Tories of the Province of Upper Canada (Ontario) in the post-War of 1812 period. After a forty-year hiatus, that abortive thesis was incorporated into a book, The Upper Canadian Anglican Tory Mind: A Cultural Fragment (2018), to which a companion, Anglican Toryism in Upper Canada: The Critical Years, 1812-1840, was published in 2020. Read More Read Less