Hugh Aylmer Dempsey (1929-11-07)November 7, 1929 Edgerton, Alberta
Died
May 24, 2022 (aged 92) Calgary
Occupation
Historian Author
Nationality
Canadian
Genre
Historical
Subject
First Nation Alberta
Notable awards
Order of Canada
Spouse
Pauline Gladstone
Hugh Aylmer Dempsey, CM (November 7, 1929 - May 24, 2022)[1] was a Canadian historian, an author and the Chief Curator Emeritus of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.[2][3] Dempsey authored more than 20 books, focusing primarily on the history of people of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary and was made an honorary chief of the Kainai Blackfoot in 1967.[4] For his contributions to the study of the Plains Indians, Dempsey was awarded membership in the Order of Canada in 1975.[5]
^Ernest Kay (1989). The International authors and writers who's who: Volume 10.
^Seskus, Tony (May 26, 2022). "Alberta author Hugh Dempsey remembered for chronicles of First Nations history". Calgary, Alberta: CBC News.
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^George Melnyk, The Literary History of Alberta: From the end of the war to the end of the century, University of Alberta, 1999 p112-113 ISBN 0-88864-324-1
^"Hugh A. Dempsey, C.M., LL.D", Order of Canada, Governor General of Canada, www.gg.ca, retrieved 2009-04-25
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