James M RothJames M. Roth had a double honours major in political science and history from Queen's University. He had a lifelong voracious appetite for reading about Canadian and world history, and he was an avid watcher of the news.

In 2019, Roth's pssion for Canadian history led him to pen Canada: The First 20,000 Years in a single summer. It is his first and only book, edited and published posthumously following a battle with cancer that ended a couple of months shy of his 51st birthday. He lived in Toronto, Canada and is survived by his wife and son. Read More Read Less