Brian Young is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. He taught history at McGill from 1975 until his retirement in 2009. His research interests centre on the social and cultural experience of the nineteenth-century Quebec elite. He is also a founding member of the Montreal History Group, a research collective which consists of students, independent scholars and faculty from universities in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. In 2010 he received the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies.