Raymond B. Blake

Raymond B. Blake is a historian, professor at the University of Regina, and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written or edited more than twenty books on Canadian history and politics, including Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity, winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Blake’s work has also received the Pierre Savard Award, the Peter Cashin Prize, the Canadian Studies Network’s Best Book Prize, and the Clio Prize. He serves as co-president of the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes. Raised on the south coast of Newfoundland, Blake now lives in Regina.