James Maurice Stockford Careless OC OOnt FRSC (February 17, 1919 – April 6, 2009)[1] was a Canadian historian.
[2] During the Second World War, he worked in the historical branch of Naval Service Headquarters at Ottawa, then transferred to the Department of External Affairs, where he served as Canadian Diplomatic Officer aboard the exchange ship MS Gripsholm.
[3] Careless began lecturing at the University of Toronto in 1945, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Canadian political, ethnic, urban and intellectual history.
[3] In 1962, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was awarded the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal.
In 1981, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his "ability to interpret Canadian history to the general reading public".