Specializing in the social and legal history of Quebec, Brian Young taught in McGill’s History Department from 1975 until his retirement in 2009. His awards include a Killam Research Fellowship and le Prix Gérard Parizeau. In 2010, he received the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies. He is presently James McGill Professor of History (emeritus). A founding member of the Montreal History Group, a research collective based in the History Department, his research interests centre on the social and cultural experience of the nineteenth-century élite.

Brian J. Young
About the Author
- Language
- English

Books written by Brian J. Young
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The Politics of Codification: The Lower Candian Civil Code of 1866
Published in 1994
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A Short History of Quebec: 3rd edition
by John Alexander Dickinson , Brian J. Young
Published in 2002