George Bryce

{{Short description|Presbyterian minister and author (1844–1931)}} {{for|the Australian rules footballer|George Bryce (footballer)}} thumb|Rev. Dr. George Bryce. Born 1844 in Mount Pleasant, Canada West.

'''George Bryce''' (April 22, 1844 – August 5, 1931) was a Presbyterian minister and a prolific author, writing on many topics including history of the Red River Colony in what is now Manitoba, Canada.

Bryce was born near Mount Pleasant, Canada West (now Ontario). He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1902 and served as the Royal Society's president in 1910.<ref>{{ cite web | url=https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/bryce_g.shtml | title=Memorable Manitobans: George Bryce (1844-1931) | publisher=www.mhs.mb.ca | date= March 13, 2011 | accessdate=September 25, 2013}}</ref> He was founder of Manitoba College and was responsible for organizing the Manitoba Historical Society in 1875 and the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society in 1879.<ref name=occl>{{cite book |editor1-last=Benson |editor1-first=Eugene |editor1-link=Eugene Benson |editor2-last=Toye |editor2-first=William |editor2-link=William Toye (author) |date=1997 |title=The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature |edition=2 |publisher=Oxford University Press |publication-place=Toronto, Ontario |page=536}}</ref>

His Scottish-born wife, Marion Samuel Bryce, was an educator identified with the earliest philanthropic activities of Winnipeg.<ref name="Whoswhoandwhy1913">{{cite book |title=Who's who and why |date=1913 |publisher=International Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vkY-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA93 |access-date=1 November 2025 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> His younger brother,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bryce |first1=Peter |title=The story of a national crime |date=1922 |publisher=James Hope & Sons Limited |location=Ottawa |page=15 |url=https://archive.org/details/storyofnationalc00brycuoft/page/15/mode/1up?q=Bryce |access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref> Peter Bryce, was a public health official.

==Works== * ''Manitoba: Infancy, Progress, and Present Condition'', (1882) * ''The Mound Builders: A Lost Race'', (c1885) * ''The Celt In The North-West'', (1887) * ''A Short History Of The Canadian People'', (1887/1914) * ''Holiday Rambles Between Winnipeg And Victoria'', (1888) * ''John Black, The Apostle Of The Red River'', (1898) * ''Sketch Of The Life And Discoveries Of Robert Campbell'', (1898) * ''The Remarkable History Of The Hudson's Bay Company'', (1900) * ''Mackenzie, Selkirk, Simpson'', (1905) * ''Everyman's Geology Of Western Canada'', (1907) * ''A Poet's Message'', (c1909) * ''The Romantic Settlement Of Lord Selkirk's Colonists:...Manitoba'', (1909) * ''The Scotsman In Canada, vol 2 '', (1911) * ''The Life Of Lord Selkirk'', (1912) Source:<ref name=authorandbook>{{cite web |title=Author - Prof, George BRYCE |url=http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/auth.pl?B008947 |publisher=Author and Book Info}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{FadedPage|id=Bryce, George|name=George Bryce|author=yes}} * {{Gutenberg author |id=7323| name=George Bryce}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=George Bryce}} * [https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/bryce_g.shtml Biography at the ''Manitoba Historical Society''] * [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=6003 George Bryce, John Black, The Apostle of the Red River prairies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929100106/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=6003 |date=2007-09-29 }}

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