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Dr. Peter Stanley Schmalz resides in Walkerton, Ontario.
His education includes the following:
1962 Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario
1962 Secondary School Teacher’s Certificate
1972 Master of Arts Degree, University of Waterloo
1985 Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Schmalz taught for five years at John F. Ross C.V.I., Guelph (1962-1967). In 1967, he began teaching at Walkerton District Secondary School. He became the Head of the History & Contemporary Studies Department at the school, a position from which he retired in or around 1995. In addition to his daily teaching job, Schmalz taught summer courses at Queen’s University in Kingston, and night courses for Georgian Collage and the University of Waterloo. He also developed and taught a course called “Man in Society” for the Ontario Ministry of Education, Correspondence Division.
From 1991 – 1992, he was seconded by the Bruce County Board of Education, through a grant from Employment and Immigration Canada, to develop a native Co-operative Education Pilot Project with two reserves for the Bruce County Board of Education.
In 1993, Dr. Schmalz received the 1993 Hilroy Fellowship for Innovations in Education award for a computer role-playing simulation which develops non-Native empathy for the century-long Native experiences on reserves.
Dr. Schmalz has researched local native land claims and issues extensively. In the 1990s and 2000s, Dr. Schmalz was hired to create reports for the Ministry of Natural Resources, First Nations communities, the provincial government and federal government.
In addition to various published articles and book reviews, his works include the following books:
• The Ojibwa, Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1995
• The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991
• The County Town Question, Wiarton: The Walkerton Historical Society, 1982
• The Impact of the Great Depression on Walkerton, Wiarton: The Walkerton Historical Society, 1982
• The History of the Saugeen Indians, Ottawa: The Ontario Historical Society, Research Publication No. 5, 1977
Dr. Schmalz was “honourably mentioned” by The Canadian Historical Association in 1991 in relation to his book, The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario, which also won the 1993 Joseph Brant Award, given by The Ontario Historical Society, as “the best book dealing with Ontario’s multicultural history published in a three-year period.”