Background
J. F. Bosher was born on May 28, 1929, in Sidney. He is a son of John Ernest and Grace (Simister) Bosher.
2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
The University of British Columbia where J. F. Bosher received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. Later he worked here as professor of history.
28 Rue Serpente, 75006 Paris
The University of Paris where J. F. Bosher received his Doctor of Science degree.
Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU
The University of London where J. F. Bosher received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
John Francis Bosher attended Victoria College (now University of Victoria) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
(In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy wa...)
In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful. Hundreds of profit-seeking accountants - 'capitalists', in the language of the time - stood in the way of reform and even of clear accounting until governments of the French Revolution eventually nationalized the financial system and changed it 'from capitalism into a bureaucracy'. From his close study of the administrative changes Professor Bosher concludes that the National Assembly planned to guard the public finances by bureaucratic organization.
https://www.amazon.com/French-Finances-1770-1795-Bureaucracy-Cambridge/dp/0521077648/?tag=2022091-20
1970
(Drawing from notarial and parish records, this study show...)
Drawing from notarial and parish records, this study shows that merchants were divided into two different social groups ̶ one Roman Catholic, aligned with the clergy, the official financiers, and other ruling elements in the French empire; the other Huguenot, aligned with emigre and foreign businessmen in Protestant countries such as England and Holland ̶ and leads readers to a new view of the French Atlantic empire.
https://www.amazon.com/Canada-Merchants-1713-1763-J-Bosher/dp/0198211341/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(The Gaullist Attack on Canada reveals a phase of French i...)
The Gaullist Attack on Canada reveals a phase of French imperialism that poses a threat to Canadian Confederation. Since the 1960s, Bosher argues, de Gaulle and his followers have conspired to stimulate Quebec separatism as part of their larger goal to revive France's role as a great power. He bases his case on the evidence of France's actions in other former French colonies, especially in Africa, as well as the writings of such leading Gaullist conspirators as Bernard Dorin, Pierre-Claude Mallen, Pierre de Menthon, and Philippe Rossillon, who have boasted about their efforts to win Quebec away from Canada for France.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773518088/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted I...)
During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450059635/?tag=2022091-20
2010
J. F. Bosher was born on May 28, 1929, in Sidney. He is a son of John Ernest and Grace (Simister) Bosher.
John Francis Bosher attended Victoria College (now University of Victoria) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In 1950 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of British Columbia. Then he studied at the University of Paris where he received his Doctor of Science degree in 1954. He also studied at the University of London and received there a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1957.
J. F. Bosher worked as a junior administrative assistant and personnel selection officer at the Civil Service Committee from 1951 to 1953. After graduating from the University of London he began to work as an assistant lecturer at King’s College. Later J. F. Bosher moved to Vancouver where he worked as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Soon he became associate professor and then professor of history. In 1964 Bosher published Single Duty Project: A Study of the Movement for a French Customs Union In the Eighteenth Century, an investigation of the plan to unite all French provinces into a union that would abolish tolls that stood in the way of internal trade, a task that was accomplished in 1790.
In 1967 J. F. Bosher began to work at Cornell University in Ithaca. He spent there three years and then moved to Toronto. In Toronto, he started to work as a professor of history at York University. In 1970 J. F. Bosher published French Finances, 1770-1795: From Business to Bureaucracy. He also wrote such books as The French Revolution (1980) and The Canada Merchants 1713-1763 (1987).
J. F. Bosher became a distinguished research professor in 1990. He retired from Toronto's York University in 1996. In 1998 he wrote The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997. This book reveals a phase of French imperialism that poses a threat to Canadian Confederation. In 2010 he published Imperial Vancouver Island. J. F. Bosher still works as a guest lecturer at various institutions in France, USA, and Canada.
(Drawing from notarial and parish records, this study show...)
1987(In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy wa...)
1970(During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted I...)
2010(The Gaullist Attack on Canada reveals a phase of French i...)
1998John Bosher is a member of the Society for French Historical Studies, Huguenot Society of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Canada.
John Bosher's first marriage was to Marga Cherovici and they had two daughters. His second marriage was to Kathryn Cecil Berry on May 28, 1968, resulting in a daughter (deceased) and a son.