C. B. Sissons

Charles Bruce Sissons, FRSC (1879 – May 27, 1965) was a Canadian historian.

Charles Bruce Sissons was born in 1879 in Crown Hill, Ontario (now part of Springwater). He graduated from Victoria College (now Victoria University, Toronto) with a degree in classics in 1901, taking the gold medal.^[1]

Sissons taught in Revelstoke, British Columbia, for four years before coming to Victoria College to teach classics. He retired in 1947^[2] and died on May 27, 1965, in Toronto.^[1][3]

He received the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1952.

Books

• Egerton Ryerson: His Life and Letters (volume 1, 1937;^[4] volume 2, 1947^[5])
• A History of Victoria University (1952)^[6]
• Church & State in Canadian Education: An Historical Study (1959)^[7]
• Nil Alienum: The Memoirs of C. B. Sissons (1964)^[8]