Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894-November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of many seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communications. November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest university in Canada and one of the most important scholarly publishers in North America. ...

Innis was born in rural Ontario and went to McMaster University. Upon graduation he enlisted and was sent to France to fight in the First World War. Upon his return home he went to the University of Chicago where he received his doctorate in economics. He then returned to Canada where he spent the rest of his career at the University of Toronto. Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal it began, loyal it remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... McMaster University is a medium-sized research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 16,771 full-time and 3,599 part-time students (as of 2004). ... the world war was a time of cheese ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ...

He is known for the "nuts and bolts" approach of analysing Canada's political economy: focusing on the nation's role as an exporter of raw materials and grains, and using this to explain its regionalism and the working of its political superstructure. This is known as the Staples Thesis, and it is still the underpinning of the study of Canada's economic history. The staples thesis is a theory of Canadian economic development. ...

Innis' theory of communication was to divide the subject into two. Time binding media includes hand-written and oral sources that are intended to last for many generations, but are only successfully used in relatively small communities. Space binding media includes most of the modern media such as radio, and television, as well as newspapers. This is information that is meant to reach as many as possible, but will not last long in time. While time binding media favoured community and metaphysics, space binding media favoured commercialism and imperialism. Marshall McLuhan was a colleague of Innis' at the University of Toronto, and he built on many of Innis' ideas. A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, professor of English literature, literary critic, and communications theorist, who is one of the founders of the study of media ecology and is today an honorary guru among technophiles. ...

Innis died of cancer in 1952. Innis College at the University of Toronto is named after him. When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... Innis College is one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Toronto. ...

Works:

• A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway - (1923)
• The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History - (1930)
• The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy - (1942)
• Political Economy in the Modern State - (1946)
• Empire and Communications - (1950)
• The Bias of Communication - (1951)
• The Strategy of Culture - (1952)
• Essays in Canadian Economic History - (1956)