Victor Howard

Victor Howard was born and raised in the United States. Following service with the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, he attended the Universities of Illinois and Connecticut and Yale. With a Ph.D. in American Literature fro Illinois in 1965, he took an appointment with the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario in London. There, his interest in Canadian Literature and History developed. Subsequent publications confirmed a particular concern with the Great Depression. In 1969, he published The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion and an anthology entitled The Great Depression: Essays and Memoirs from Canada and the United States. These were followed in 1973 with his edition of Ronald Liversedge's Recollections of the On-To-Ottawa Trek, for the Carleton Library. Victor was the recipient of numerous research awards and fellowships as well as the William F. Donner Medal given by the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States for distinguished service.