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- Birth nameJames Maurice Stockford Careless
- J.M.S. Careless was born on February 17, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. J.M.S. is known for Folio (1955), John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea (1961) and Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God (1961). J.M.S. was married to Elizabeth Robinson. J.M.S. died on April 6, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- SpouseElizabeth Robinson(? - April 6, 2009) (his death, 5 children)
- He liked to remind his students that nothing in history is inevitable until it happens.
- He was an eminent scholar of Canadian history, and wrote seminal books on Confederation, urban history and a changing Canada. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Canadian, political, urban, and ethnic history.
- During WWII, he was a diplomatic officer aboard the prisoner-of-war exchange ship Gripsholm.
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