Degrees: Ph.D. British Columbia (1975)

Email: ewsager@uvic.ca | Office: Clearihue B221

Canadian labour history and family history; Director, Canadian Families Project (1996-2001).

HIST 130 History of Canada
HIST 343A Labouring Lives: Work and Workers in Canada to 1907
HIST 343B Labouring Lives: Work and Workers in Canada since 1907
HIST 341 Historians and the Computer
HIST 359 Seminar in Canadian History
HIST 469/516 The Digital Revolution in History
HIST 503B Twentieth Century Canada

Eric Sager received his PhD in British history from the University of British Columbia in 1975, after completing a doctoral thesis on the peace movement in nineteenth-century England. He taught at the University of British Columbia (1974-75) and the University of Winnipeg (1975-76). Between 1976 and 1979, and in 1981-82, he was Assistant Professor (Research) with the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He taught at Erindale College (University of Toronto) from 1979 to 1981 and 1982-83, before joining the History Department at Victoria in 1983

Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 321 + xviii pages, 1989).

Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 289 + xviii pages, 1990) (by Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting).

Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993). Discovering Darwin: The 1930s in History and Memory (Darwin: The Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1993).

Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and their Families in Late Victorian Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998)(co-authored with Peter Baskerville)