Keith Fleming

Associate Professor
PhD, The University of Western Ontario, 1988

Research Interests

Canada, North American Business History

Selected Publications

Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911-1958. McGill-Queen's, 1992.

review of Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario’s Electric Empire by Jamie Swift and Keith Stewart (Between the Lines, 2004) in The American Review of Canadian Studies (1996), pp. 357-359.

review of Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 by Matthew J. Bellamy in University of Toronto Quarterly (forthcoming).

"Bishop William Townshend" in Michael Baker and Hilary Bates Neary, eds., 100 Fascinating Londoners (James Lorimer & Company, 2005), pp. 89-90.

review of Eugene A. Forsey: An Intellectual Biography by Frank Milligan (University of Calgary Press, 2004) in The Canadian Historical Review (Vol. 86, No. 3, Sept. 2005, pp. 555-557.

"hydroelectricity" in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 300-301.

Works in Progress

- book length biography of the Canadian social activist and internationalist, John King Gordon, 1900-1989 (estimated completion: summer 2008)

- a business history case study of how passing under foreign ownership prompted the demise of the Owen Sound-based William Kennedy & Sons foundry, which had been a model of Canadian entrepreneurship for over a century – estimated completion date, spring 2008

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