Stanley Brehaut Ryerson (March 12, 1911 – 1998) was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist. There is very little information available concerning his parents, but Ryerson was born in 1911, into a well-off middle-class family in Toronto. Ryerson could trace his paternal lineage back to Egerton Ryerson, the “Pope of Methodism” in nineteenth century Toronto, and to William McDougall, one of the Fathers of Confederation; and, on his mother’s side, he was related to Louis Antoine Brehaut de l’Isle, French Commander at Trois-Rivières in 1638.
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