Bruce Hodgins

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.

Hodgins studied at Waterloo College and Queen's University at Kingston He was a specialist in the study of John Sandfield Macdonald, Temagami, Charles Alfred Marie Paradis [FR], the colonization of Canada, Camp Wanapitei, Canadian federalism, and his home town of Peterborough, Ontario.

Hodgins was the chair of the National Administrative Committee for the United Nations Association Canada.

Selected publications Bruce Hodgins and Jamie Benidickson, Temagami Experience (1989) University of Toronto Press. Bruce Hodgins, Blockades and resistance: Studies in actions of peace and the Temagami blockades of 1988-89 (2003) Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Personal life Hodgins met Carol, his wife-to-be, in Charlottetown, while working at the Prince of Wales College. They had sons Shawn and Geoff and daughter Gillian Nesbitt. He moved to Peterborough, Ontario in 1965 and lived on Engleburn Place.

Hodgins was a supporter of the Peterborough Historical Society. With other family members, he was a part owner of Camp Wanapitei, purchased in 1956.

Hodgins was one of over 300 people arrested in 1989 for taking part in a protest of a road expansion in Temagami.

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.