{{Short description|Canadian historian and author (1931–2019)}} {{Infobox person | name = Bruce W. Hodgins | image = Bruce Hodgins photo.jpeg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|1|29}} | birth_place = Kitchener, Ontario | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|8|8|1931|1|29}} | death_place = Peterborough, Ontario | alma_mater = Waterloo College, Queen's University at Kingston, Duke University | occupation = Historian, author | employer = Trent University | organization = Canadian Canoe Museum | political_party = New Democratic Party | awards = Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the North (2000) }} '''Bruce W. Hodgins''' (January 29, 1931 – August 8, 2019) was a Canadian academic historian and author.
He was a co-founder of Trent University's history department, a federal New Democratic Party candidate, and a co-founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum.
He was the author of the 2003 book ''Blockades and resistance'' and the co-author of the 1989 book ''Temagami Experience.''
== Early life and education == Bruce Hodgins was born on January 29, 1931, in Kitchener, Ontario. His father, Stanley Hodgins, was a school principal and his mother Laura Belle Hodgins (née Turel) was a nurse. He had a younger brother named Larry.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Iqbal |first=Maria |date=2019-08-28 |title=Scholar Bruce Hodgins wrote passionately about the canoe and Canadian history |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-scholar-bruce-hodgins-wrote-passionately-about-the-canoe-and-canadian/ |access-date=2023-03-16}}</ref>
Hodgins studied at Waterloo College and Queen's University at Kingston<ref name=":2" /> and had a PhD from Duke University in North Carolina where he attended from 1958.<ref name=":2" />
== Career == [[File:Canadian Canoe Museum.JPG|thumb|Inside the Canadian Canoe Museum]] Hodgins taught Canadian history and worked in the history departments of Prince of Wales College and at the University of Western Ontario as well as with Trent University's Leslie M. Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-08-22 |title=Trent University Mourns the Passing of Professor Emeritus Bruce Hodgins |url=https://www.trentu.ca/news/story/24785 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Trent University |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Elwood |date=2019-08-23 |title=Peterborough's Bruce Hodgins leaves a rich legacy |url=https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2019/08/23/elwood-jones-peterborough-s-bruce-hodgins-leaves-a-rich-legacy.html |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=The Peterborough Examiner |language=en}}</ref> He was a specialist in the study of John Sandfield Macdonald, Temagami, Charles Alfred Marie Paradis [[:fr:Charles-Alfred-Marie_Paradis|<small>[FR]</small>]], the colonization of Canada, Camp Wanapitei, Canadian federalism, and his home town of Peterborough, Ontario.<ref name=":1" /> Along with Alan Wilson, he was a co-founder of Trent University's history department,<ref name=":1" /> where he worked as a professor from 1965, being promoted to associate professor in 1967.<ref name=":0" /> He retired in 1996.<ref name=":3">''[https://www.dundurn.com/authors_/t156375/t144104-bruce-w--hodgins Bruce W. Hodgins]'', Dundurn Press</ref>
Hodgins was the chair of the National Administrative Committee for the United Nations Association Canada.<ref name=":0" /> With John Jennings, Hodgins was a co-founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum.<ref name=":1" />
Hodgins was the New Democratic Party candidate for Peterborough—Kawartha in the 1968 Canadian federal election, losing to Hugh Faulkner, and remaining an active party member throughout his adult life.<ref name=":1" />
Hodgins won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the North in 2000.<ref>''[https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Contributors/H/Hodgins-Bruce Bruce Hodgins]'', Wilfrid Laurier University Press</ref>
=== Selected publications === * Bruce Hodgins and Jamie Benidickson, ''Temagami Experience'' (1989) University of Toronto Press.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4">LACKENBAUER, P. W. Blockades and resistance: Studies in actions of peace and the Temagami blockades of 1988-89. '''Canadian Ethnic Studies''', ''[s. l.]'', v. 37, n. 2, p. 121–122, 2005. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=19471249&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 16 mar. 2023.</ref> * Bruce Hodgins, ''Blockades and resistance: Studies in actions of peace and the Temagami blockades of 1988-89'' (2003) Wilfrid Laurier University Press.<ref name=":4" /> * ''The Canoe in Canadian Cultures/Bark, Skin and Cedar'' (1999) Natural Heritage/Natural History (co-editor with John Jennings and Doreen Small).<ref>FRANKS, C. E. S. The Canoe in Canadian Cultures/Bark, Skin and Cedar (Book). '''American Review of Canadian Studies''', ''[s. l.]'', v. 30, n. 3, p. 393, 2000. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=8542476&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 16 mar. 2023.</ref><ref name=":2" /> * Bruce Hodgins, ''Nastawgan: The Canadian North by Canoe and Snowshoe'' (1995) Betelgeuse Books * ''Changing Parks: The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes (1998)'' (co-editor) Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc.<ref>CAMPBELL, C. E. “We All Aspired to be Woodsy”: Tracing Environmental Awareness at a Boys’ Camp. '''Oral History Forum''', ''[s. l.]'', v. 30, p. 1–23, 2010. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=57631406&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 16 mar. 2023.</ref>
== Personal life == Hodgins met Carol, his wife-to-be, in Charlottetown, while working at the Prince of Wales College.<ref name=":2" /> They had sons Shawn and Geoff and daughter Gillian Nesbitt.<ref name=":2" /> He moved to Peterborough, Ontario in 1965<ref name=":3" /> and lived on Engleburn Place.<ref name=":1" />
Hodgins was a supporter of the Peterborough Historical Society.<ref name=":1" /> With other family members, he was a part owner of Camp Wanapitei, purchased in 1956.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
Hodgins was one of over 300 people arrested in 1989 for taking part in a protest of a road expansion in Temagami.<ref name=":2" />
{{See also|Temagami Land Caution}}
== Death == Hodgins died on August 8, 2019, at Peterborough Regional Health Centre, aged 88, after what was presumed to be a series of small strokes.<ref name=":2" />
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