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Acadian Culture

The best way to wipe away the past is to illuminate the future. – Antonine Maillet, Cent ans dans les bois (1981).

Gordon Neil Fisher

Gordon Neil Fisher, publisher (b at Montréal 9 Dec 1928; d at Toronto 8 Aug 1985). Fisher was president of SOUTHAM INC, one of the largest newspaper chains in Canada. He attended Lower Canada College, Trinity College School and McGill, where he studied engineering.

Constance Beresford-Howe

Constance Beresford-Howe, novelist (b at Montréal 10 Nov 1922). The author of 10 novels and various magazine pieces, Beresford-Howe was educated at McGill (BA, 1945, MA, 1946) and at Brown University (PhD, 1965).

Carl Frederick Klinck

Carl Frederick Klinck, literary historian, educator (b at Elmira, Ont 24 Mar 1908; d at London, Ont 22 Oct 1990). Klinck helped make CANADIAN STUDIES a central part of the curriculum: his Canadian Anthology (edited with R.E.

Roberta Rich

Roberta Rich, novelist (born at Buffalo, New York, USA, 9 Jan 1946). Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Rich settled briefly in Rochester, New York before immigrating to Canada in the 1960s with her first husband, who had a job teaching at the UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY.

Christie Blatchford

Christie Blatchford, newspaper columnist, writer, broadcaster (born at Rouyn-Noranda, Que 20 May 1951). Christie Blatchford studied journalism at RYERSON UNIVERSITY in Toronto, and then became a sports reporter for the GLOBE AND MAIL and a columnist for the TORONTO STAR.

Suzanne Desrochers

Suzanne Desrochers, scholar, travel writer, novelist (born at Lafontaine, Ont 1976). Suzanne Desrochers is based in Toronto, but has lived in Paris, Tokyo, and travelled throughout Asia, publishing travel articles in Toronto's Now magazine.

M.A.C. Farrant (Marion Alice Coburn Farrant)

Marion Alice Coburn Farrant (M.A.C. Farrant), writer (born at Sydney Australia, 5 April 1947). M.A.C. Farrant was raised in Victoria, BC and studied at the UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA and SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. She describes herself as an "anthropologist of the absurd.

John Allan Irving

John Allan Irving, philosopher (b in Blenheim Township, Ont 6 May 1903; d at Toronto 3 Jan 1965). As an instructor in philosophy he was first at Princeton, and then at UBC.

Zsuzsi Gartner

Zsuzsi Gartner, writer, editor, journalist, (born at Winnipeg, MB, 4 May 1960) began her career in journalism.

Susan Swan

Susan Jane Swan, novelist, journalist, educator (b at Midland, Ont 9 Jun 1945). After studying English literature at McGill University (BA, 1967), Swan began a career in journalism as education reporter for The Toronto Telegram.

Joanna Ruth Nichols

Joanna Ruth Nichols, children's writer (b at Toronto 4 Mar 1948). In A Walk Out of the World (1969) and The Marrow of the World (1972), Nichols portrays the adventures of troubled children transported to alternate universes. The latter was Canadian Children's Book of the Year.

John Clark Murray

John Clark Murray, philosopher (b at Thread and Tannahill, Scot 19 Mar 1836; d at Montréal 20 Nov 1917). Murray's career as a philosopher began in 1862 at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Jean-Charles Harvey

Jean-Charles Harvey, journalist, writer, lecturer (b at La Malbaie, Qué 10 Nov 1891; d at Montréal 3 Jan 1967). A lively and outspoken thinker, Harvey was at the heart of almost every cultural, political and social debate of his time.

John Castell Hopkins

John Castell Hopkins, journalist, encyclopedist (b at Dyersville, Iowa 1 Apr 1864; d at Toronto 5 Nov 1923). He became assistant editor of the Toronto Mail and Empire in 1890 and wrote a number of pamphlets, biographies and histories, including the deferential Life and Work of the Right Hon.

Ken Mitchell

Ken Mitchell, playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet, actor, teacher, scriptwriter (b at Moose Jaw, Sask 13 Dec 1940). Mitchell grew up on a farm near Moose Jaw, and attended the University of Saskatchewan, Regina; while a student, he began to write stories and radio plays for the CBC.

Francess Georgina Halpenny

Francess Georgina Halpenny, editor (b at Ottawa 27 May 1919). After studies in English at the University of Toronto, she began in 1941 her long association with U of T Press, interrupted only by service in the RCAF 1942-45.

Claude Jasmin

Claude Jasmin, novelist, playwright, essayist, arts chronicler and scenographer (b at Montréal 10 Nov 1930). He received his diploma in applied arts at the École du meuble in Montréal and became a scenographer with Société Radio-Canada in 1956.

Raymond Knister

Raymond Knister, writer (b at Ruscom, Ont 27 May 1899; d at Stoney Pt, Ont 29 Aug 1932). He attended Victoria College, University of Toronto, briefly and took courses at Iowa State University, Iowa City (1923-24).

Sir John George Bourinot

Sir John George Bourinot, writer, historian (b at Sydney, NS 24 Oct 1837; d at Ottawa 13 Oct 1902). Bourinot graduated from Toronto's Trinity University in 1857 and then settled in Halifax, where he founded the Herald and became its editor.

James McCarroll

James McCarroll, fiction writer, journalist, poet, musician, inventor (b at Lanesboro, Ireland 3 Aug 1814; d at New York City, US 10 Apr 1892). Once one of Canada's most published and praised authors, James McCarroll has been largely forgotten since the 1870s.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, poet (b at Arezzo, Italy, 5 July 1949). Di Cicco's poetry often reflects the dislocations of his family's life. His hometown of Arezzo was ravaged by World War II and his older brother died from a bomb blast in 1944.

Jessie Louise Beattie

Jessie Louise Beattie, poet, educator, novelist, dramatist (born at Blair, Ont, 2 Oct 1896; died at Hamilton, Ont, 5 Oct 1985).

Hiram Alfred (H.A.) Cody

Hiram Alfred (H.A.) Cody, clergyman, novelist (born at Codys, NB 3 Jul 1872; died at Saint John, NB 9 Feb 1948). Born in Codys, New Brunswick, a town named after his family, H.A. Cody moved to Windsor, Nova Scotia to study at KING'S COLLEGE.

Robert Lalonde

Robert Lalonde, novelist and actor (b at Oka 22 Jul 1947). He completed classical studies at the Collège de Montréal and the Séminaire de Sainte-Therese earning a BA in 1968.

Edward Farrer

Edward Farrer, journalist (b near Castlebar?, Ire; d at Ottawa 27 Apr 1916). An outstanding craftsman and promoter of Canada-US union, he was said to have studied for the priesthood in Rome before coming to Canada about 1870.