James C. Mays (November 19, 1953 – January 18, 2022) was a bilingual Canadian historian whose primary works focus on the domestic automotive industry.
He taught elementary school in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before graduating with a Master of Education degree from Concordia University in Montreal (1984).
[4] In 1998, Mays won a Golden Quill Award as editor of a national antique car club magazine.
[5] The author of six cookbooks, Mays won Vogue magazine’s Millennium Food & Beverage Award for his 1999 release, You Can’t Get Mad Vegan Disease.
He is a member of the South Western Ontario Heritage Council, sat on the War of 1812 Bicentennial Committee for the region and wrote the history column for the Scoop, a Windsor labour newspaper.