Roger Sarty
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Roger Sarty became interested in maritime history during his childhood in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he accompanied his father, a television producer, on research trips for historical documentaries. After studies at the University of Toronto (BA and PhD) and Duke University (MA), he joined the Directorate of History at National Defence Headquarters in 1981. He worked as a specialist in maritime aviation during the Second World War on the official history of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and then in 1987 became a founding member of the team established to produce a new operational history of the Royal Canadian Navy. From 1991 he was Senior Historian at the Directorate, with responsibility for all English-language publications, and in 1998 moved to the Canadian War Museum. As Deputy Director, in 2000-2003 he headed exhibition and public programming development for the war museum’s new building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa. In 2004 Dr. Sarty became a professor of military and Canadian history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He has authored, co-authored or edited eleven books and monographs, and in addition to CMH also edits The Northern Mariner.
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