John C. Weaver (historian)

John C. Weaver FRSC is a Canadian historian, currently Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University. The son of Catherine (Barnes), a shop clerk, and Owen Adam Weaver, a school teacher. A graduate of Queen's University, he received a James B. Duke Commonwealth Fellowship to study at Duke University where he met and married Joan (Tamorria). Except for a two year period teaching at Queen's, his career has been entirely at McMaster University, with visiting Professorships at Australian National University and Griffith University in Brisbane. The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003), was awarded the François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Best Book in History during previous five years by a Canadian, the North American Conference on British Studies, Award for Best Book 2005, and the Wallace K. Ferguson Award, best book in a non-Canadian field by the Canadian Historical Association.