Peter Baskerville stands as one of Canada's, and indeed the world's, leading historians engaged in inter-disciplinary research on the making of modern society. Some twelve books and more than fifty published essays are recognized for their ground-breaking, innovative, and meticulous scholarship. His on-going research includes studies of work, gender, and wealth formation that underpin the changing family in late-19th and early-20th century Canada. He is a leader in creating two enormous public-use samples of historical census data - the Canadian Families and the on-going Canadian Century Research Infrastructure projects - that are transforming historical, demographic, geographical, and sociological scholarship.