Doug Owram is professor of history and was deputy vice-chancellor of the University of British Columbia Okanagan from 2006 to 2012,[1] a post he assumed on July 1, 2006.
Chief among these was his tenure as president of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2001 to 2003, as chair of the Campus Alberta Quality Council from its inception in 2004 until July 1, 2006, and as a National Historical Association board member since 2004.
Owram was the recipient of a University of Alberta McCalla Professorship in 1989, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990.
(University of Toronto Press, 2013) Promise of Eden is a 1980 book by Doug Owram, examining the Canadian expansionist movement between the years 1856 and 1900.
He traces conceptions of Rupert's Land from a barren wasteland to an area that was ripe for settlement and offered the best, and sometimes only, hope of prosperity and redemption for the Canadian nation.