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Jennifer Brown (1940-) is the great-granddaughter of Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young and the daughter of Harcourt Brown. She is a published author, and professor emeritus of history at the University of Winnipeg where she worked from 1988-2011. In 1997 she became the Director of the Centre for Rupert's Land Studies, and in 2004 was the Canada Research Chair for Aboriginal Peoples and Histories. She has done extensive research on her ancestry and has published extensively on Indigenous history in Canada and the United States; particularly the fur trade, Indigenous culture, women's history and oral history.
Harcourt Brown (1900-1990) was the maternal grandson of Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young and nephew to E. Ryerson Young (Egerton Ryerson Young Jr.) He was Professor Emeritus of Brown University, where he taught in French Language and literature from 1937-1969, and he conducted extensive research on his ancestry.