Wood achieved the rank of major in the eighth regiment of the Royal Rifles. He was one of the founders of the Quebec branch of the Naval League of the British Empire in 1904 and went on to become its secretary. Wood was an esteemed military historian and contributed to the Chronicles of Canada project. His works included British Command of the Sea (1900), The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolfe (1914), The Passing of New France: A Chronicle of Montcalm (1914), The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 (1915), The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton (1916), Elizabethan Sea-Dogs (1918), Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and Gray (1921), and, in collaboration with Ralph Henry Gabriel, The Winning of Freedom (1927). |
