Newfoundland Authors

Badcock, Tom was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland. He is the author of numerous novels including the best selling A Broken Arrow and The Man Inside. He is also written numerous dinner theatre productions as well as the play, Sheila Na Geira, the Pirate Princess. Honour Thy Mother is the first of four 'honour' series novels, three of which are complete and he is currently working on the fourth, Honour Thy Son. He is a five times decorated and retired Canadian Air Force officer and is a past editor of Der Kanadier, the Canadian Forces largest newspaper. A portion of the proceeds from his novel will be used to continue his fight for the rights of persons with disabilities.

Bartlett, Captain Robert Abram was born in Brigus, Newfoundland, in 1875. He was educated in both Brigus and at the Methodist College in St. John’s before beginning a career as a mariner, explorer, and sealing captain. Despite many notable feats, Captain Bartlett is probably best known for his journey with Captain Robert Peary to reach the North Pole and his heroic deed aboard the Karluk. Bartlett died of pneumonia on April 28, 1946, in New York City.

Barton, Anthony is a painter and writer who has lived in Newfoundland for 28 years. He has had two sell-out exhibitions of his paintings in St. John’s, both funded by the Newfoundland and Labrador Council for the Arts. His work has been published by Methuen, Simon & Schuster and Penguin.

Beckel, Annamarie lives in Northern Wisconsin. She works as editor/writer for the Abinoojiiyag (Youth) Center on the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Indian Reservation. Beckel has published scientific articles and a non-fiction book, Breaking New Waters. She became fascinated with this story on her first visit to Newfoundland in 1976. This is her first novel.

Bell, John editor and writer, is descended from a long line of New England and Nova Scotian mariners. A member of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, some of his other books are The Grand-Slam Book of Canadian Baseball Writing, Halifax: A Literary Portrait, Guardians of the North, and Confederate Seadog.

Bell, John is descended from a long line of New England and Nova Scotian mariners. A member of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, he offers selections of classic sea stories. His other books include The Grand-Slam Book of Canadian Baseball Writing, Halifax: A Literary Portrait, Guardians of the North, and Confederate Seadog.

Bellamy, Katherine E., RSM was born in Bay Roberts and received her early education at St. Matthew’s Anglican School. At the age of twelve, she boarded at St. Bride’s College, Littledale, St. John’s, where she completed high school and then went on to Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. When she was eighteen, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland. After her profession, she was assigned to Our Lady of Mercy School, Military Road, St. John’s, where she began her career as a music teacher. Sister Kathrine is recognized mainly for her work with the school choirs at the Immaculate Conception Academy, Bell Island, and at Our Lady of Mercy School and Holy Heart of Mary High School, St. John’s. Under her direction, Our Lady of Mercy Glee Club received many awards, and it was the first Newfoundland choir to win the Mathieson Trophy for the best junior choir in Canada. By coincidence, one of her former pupils, Margo Cranford, is the publisher of this book!
Blake, Raymond B. holds a PhD in Canadian History from York University and undergraduate degrees from Memorial University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of History and was previously Director of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy and the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University.

Bowyer, Peter is a senior meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Brown, Cassie was a Newfoundlander, born and bred. A successful writer of stage and radio plays, she was also a reporter and columnist for the Daily News in St. John's for seven years. She is now considered one of Newfoundland's most respected authors. In the 1970s she wrote three tales that were published by Doubleday Canada; A Winter’s Tale, Standing into Danger, and Death on the Ice.

Bruneau, Stephen was born in 1964 and has lived in Newfoundland since 1968. A graduate of Memorial University's Civil Engineering program, he started working at C-CORE in the summer of 1992 and immediately became immersed in the ongoing iceberg design load work for the Terra Nova FPSO. This work prompted his Ph.D. studies in ice loads, but not long after ice issues at the Confederation Bridge took centre stage and that ended up being the final theme of his doctoral thesis. Later, research experiments for and employment with private companies had him and his colleagues running around after icebergs, bashing them into cliffs and finding ways to cut, melt, split measure, model, track and predict them.

Burke, Dr. J.C, a native Newfoundlander, enjoys a good story and delights in telling stories about his fun loving countrymen. “Someone has to keep the humour mills running in Canada,” he says, “or we will all die of melancholy.”

Burrows, Roger has traveled North America extensively. While completing his B.Sc., he worked as a naturalist, interpretive planner and avifaunal consultant and has since worked as a bird identification workshop provider, avifaunal surveyor and naturalist on cruise ships. Burrows has written other Atlantic Canada birding books and has been a writer/photographer for, and then owner of, a rural lifestyle magazine.

Butler, Geoff The son of a Protestant minister, Geoff grew up in three outports in Newfoundland. He has written and illustrated two books for children, award-winning The Killick: A Newfoundland Story, and The Hangashore. Geoff Butler lives in Nova Scotia.

Butler, Paul An accomplished author of several novels, Paul Butler has also written for many publications in Canada, including The Globe and Mail, The Beaver, Books in Canada, Atlantic Books Today, and Canadian Geographic. He has a regular film column with The Social Edge e-zine and has contributed to CBC Radio regional and national. A graduate of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre in Toronto and a winner in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters competition (2003 and 2004), Butler lives in St. John’s.

Callahan, Wm. R. is one of Newfoundland’s and Canada’s most senior journalists, having worked in print and broadcast media for nearly a half-century with a short time out for politics. As editor of all three daily newspapers published in Newfoundland in the twentieth century—The Telegram, The Western Star, and the now defunct Daily News, Callahan set a record that will likely never be equaled. His books include a detailed explanation of the Smallwood era, a centennial history (as editor) of the Christian Brothers in Newfoundland, and, currently in progress, an anthology on the Viking discoverers of Newfoundland.

Choyce, Lesley teaches part-time at Dalhousie University, runs Pottersfield Press and has published nearly 60 books for adults and kids. His Young Adult novels concern things like skateboarding, surfing, racism, environmental issues, organ transplants, and rock bands. Lesley surfs year round in the North Atlantic and is considered the father of transcendental wood-splitting. He's worked as a rehab counsellor, a freight hauler, a corn farmer, a janitor, a journalist, a lead guitarist, a newspaper boy and a well-digger. He lives in a 200 year old farm house at Lie. In 2002, Goose Lane Editions published Choyce's best-selling circumferential history book, The Coasts of Canada. That same year, his animal epic film, The Skunk Whisperer, was broadcast across Canada and heralded at the Maine International Film Festival. Along with the Surf Poets, he has released two poetry/music albums, Long Lost Planet and Sea Level.

Clark, Joan was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, grew up in Cape Breton, and launched her writing career while living in Calgary. Her adult fiction includes The Victory of Geraldine Gull, which won the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, and Latitudes of Melt, finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada and Caribbean). Today she lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where she is working on her new novel.

Colbourne, Lloyd was born at Twillingate, educated there and at Toronto. He returned to Newfoundland and built a successful business, L. G. Colbourne Electronics Ltd; later, a film and video company, colbourne Productions Ltd. From his new studio, he produced training videos and commercials. He also did the first series of shows ever produced by an independent producer in Newfoundland. His prime time series, "Newfoundland Outdoors" ran from 1979 to 1995, some sixteen years.

Collins, Captain L. Marmaduke is a master mariner, who was born into a seafaring family in Carmanville, on the north east coast of Newfoundland. Upon completing high school in 1947, he began his career by accepting assignments on Canadian and British cargo and passenger ships. By 1952 he had attained the rank of deck officer; his first command followed in 1956. He entered the Newfoundland and Labrador Harbour, Coastal and Ice Pilotage Service in 1960, and in his capacity as pilot was responsible for the safe navigation of ships up to, and including, VLCC’s. After more than forty years navigating the North Atlantic waters, he retired in 1995. He is presently a marine consultant and instructor for the Centre for Marine Simulation, the School of Maritime Studies, and the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Collins, Harold was born in Indian Islands in 1925 and that’s where grew up. He left school at 14 to earn a living and became a telegraph operator with the Department of Post and Telegraphs. He continued this occupation in several rural Newfoundland communities but in the 1950s he was a supervisor with Canadian National Telegraphs (CNT). CNT had taken over the Post and Telegraph operations after confederation in 1949. Harold became involved in politics in the 1960s and was elected in the 1965 election as a member of the House of Assembly. In the early 1970s when the PC party under leader Frank Moores was elected Harold became a minister in Frank Moores government. He did no contest the election in 1979 and finally retired in 1990 after spending some time as Chief Protocol Officer for the Province and as Chairman of the Canadian Fisheries Prices Support Board.

Cook, Clayton Daniel was born at Port Union, Newfoundland, and received his early education at St. Peter’s Anglican All-Grade School in Princeton. After his retirement in 1969, he and his wife owned and operated a hotel/motel for some years. In the 1980s, Clayton took an active role in the railway preservation movement and, in 1984, he literally fought a one-man campaign to save the historic Trinity Train Loop as an historical site and a monument to the men who built it back in 1909–1911. In the late 1990s, Cook was the recipient of many awards for his untiring work in the railway preservation movement. He is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography and Universal Career Institute. Clayton Cook and his wife, Alice, reside in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland.

Cook, J.S. (JoAnne Soper-Cook) was born in outport Newfoundland, received both a B.A. and M.A. from Memorial University, and now lives in St. John’s. Her stories, poetry, and journalism have appeared in Geist, The Review, TickleAce, Waxing and Waning, Rant, The Muse, Atmospherics, and Essays on Canadian Writing and in several Newfoundland newspapers, including The Compass, The Southern Gazette, and The Packet. Her stories and commentary have and M.A. from Memorial University, and now lives in St. John’s. Her stories, poetry, and been broadcast on CBC Radio and her plays have been performed at the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John’s. Soper-Cook has also worked as an editor and has taught English Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Coupland, Douglas was born on a Canadian NATO base in Baden-Sollingen, (West) Germany, on 30 December, 1961. He grew up and lives in Vancouver, Canada. Douglas Coupland is known worldwide as a writer with the ability to capture our techno-pop-culture existence to the page, as well as a deep understanding of the connections between people, and between all of us and our world.

Crummey, Michael was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland, second of four boys; he grew up there and in Wabush, another mining town near the Quebec border of Labrador. After completing a BA in English at Memorial University in St. John's, he moved to Kingston, Ontario to pursue graduate work but dropped out before finishing his Ph. D. He has taught ESL in China and worked at the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Guatemala.

Cuff, Robert holds degrees in History and Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Masters degree in History from the University of Western Ontario. After his graduation in 1981, his first full-time job was with Newfoundland Book Publishers Ltd., working with J.R. Smallwood as a Researcher-Writer on Volume Two of the Encyclopaedia of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Davis, Harold grew up in Newfoundland. He and his wife live by the Salmonier River along with their three children.

Dickinson, Anthony B. is professor, Department of Biology, and director, International Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has also worked on whaling and elephant sealing on the Island of South Georgia in the southern hemisphere as an inspector/biologist for the government of the Falkland Islands.

Dillon, Wallace was born in Craigsville, New York in 1863. In 1888 he moved to New York City where he became a lawyer. In 1900, Wallace became friends with Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. (1872-1903) the assistant-editor for Outing, an American nature magazine. Hubbard convinced the forty-year-old Wallace, to accompany him on the Labrador canoe trip of which Wallace wrote in Lure of the Labrador Wild.

Drodge, Eldon is the author of two previous novels. His first, Jackman published in 1999 is based on the life of Captain William Jackman of Renews, who is best known for his heroic rescue of twenty-seven people at Spotted Island, Labrador, in 1867. Drodge’s second novel, Kerrivan, was published in October 2001. It is a fictional derivation of the legend of the Masterless Men, a group of lawless men who inhabited the wilderness area near Ferryland and Renews in the mid-1700’s.

Duggan, Derm was an interior designer, ventriloquist, inventor, and drummer, who has illustrated twenty books.

Fardy, Bernard D. was born in St. John’s in 1949. On completion of high school he left the province and travelled and lived for several years in western Canada and the United States. He returned to Newfoundland in 1971 and studied Forestry Technology at the Cabot Institute of Applied Arts and Technology. Upon graduation he was employed by the Newfoundland Government and worked for twenty-five years with the Department of Forestry and Agriculture as a Forestry, Land Use and Cartographic Technician. An avid student of Canadian and Newfoundland history, he has written several books and his articles have appeared in the Newfoundland Quarterly and Canadian Frontier.

Foster, Charles met Donald Brian for the first time in 1943 while on leave from pilot training for the Royal British Air Force in Calgary, Alberta. Through his connection with silent film era director, Sidney Olcott and his wife, Valentine, Charles had the fortune to meet many of Hollywood's most recognizable stars. Charles lives in Riverview, New Brunswick.

Galgay, Frank is a prominent Newfoundland educator and author. He holds B.A. and M.Ed. degrees in classical languages and education, and has served as teacher and administrator in a number of Newfoundland schools. Besides being an author and co-author, Frank Galgay is also a councillor for the city of St. John’s. He is married to the former Rosemary McDonald and has four children: Colleen, Sean, Brendan, and Matthew.

Gimlette, John is a practicing attorney in London, where he lives with his wife. He is a regular contributor of travel articles and photographs to Condé Nast Traveller, as well as other journals and newspapers in England. This is his first book.

Goldie, Raymond (Goldie’s) interest in Voisey’s Bay began in 1970, when he was part of the first prospecting team to visit the coast of Labrador to examine its potential for deposits of copper and nickel. In the late 1970s, armed with a Ph.D. in geology from Raymond Queen’s University, Kingston, he began to work in the Canadian investment industry, most recently with Salman Partners Inc. As mining analyst, he has followed the fortunes of North American mining companies and mine developments, including Inco Limited and its Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper project.

Guy, Ray was born and grew up at Arnold's Cove, Placentia Bay. After two years at Memorial University and a three-year journalism course at the Ryerson Institute he became a newspaper reporter in St. John's in 1963. He has written many articles and columns for newspapers and magazines and has some experience in radio and TV broadcasting. He is married with two children, the elder being the victim of this book. He has written several other books including You May Know Them as Sea Urchins Ma’am.

Hamilton, William B. is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Mount Allison University. A former chair of the Toponymic Research Committee of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographic Names, he has written extensively on place names. His books include Local History in Atlantic Canada and The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names.

Hammond, Phyllis Joy has exhibited her work in Iceland, Texas, Vermont, Quebec and Alberta. Mrs. Hammond's diverse work continues to surprise those who follow her career as she uses a wide variety of techniques to interpret what she sees. A graduate of Wellesley College, Mrs. Hammond developed her natural talents through study and consultation with well-known artists of the area.

Hanrahan, Maura is the author of several books. Her short fiction has been published in Canada, the United States, and Britain, and has won awards in all three countries, including one from London's prestigious Independent newspaper. She has also published over 400 newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, several of which were prize-winning. Besides being a writer, Maura is also a cultural anthropologist, having graduated from the London School of Economics in 1989, and a painter. With family roots on the Burin Peninsula, she lives in her native St. John's with her husband, Paul Butler

Ho, Dr. Cosmas qualified as M.D. in 1962 and completed postgraduate training in Canada at the General Hospital, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and at Queen’s University, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Ho began private practice of Family Medicine in Newfoundland in 1965. Combining his clinical experience and pioneering research into seal oil as a nutritional source of Omega 3, Dr. Ho has pioneered the production of seal oil for domestic markets and for export worldwide.

Jackson, Lawrenc was fascinated by the natural world. He grew up in the foothills of the Rockies, travelled extensively around the world, and lived near the sea in Newfoundland and Labrador for twenty-seven years. Although much of his life was spent writing on science and nature for adults, Lawrence was always eager to share with children his deep interest in "how things work." Besides feature stories in Canada's major periodicals, he wrote Newfoundland and Labrador for the Hello Canada series, and co-authored Reflections From A Snowhouse. Since his death in 1998, his wife and children have shared the goal of seeing this wonderful manuscript illustrated and published.

Jarvis, Dale is a performer, researcher, writer and storyteller living and working in St. John's. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Anthropology from Trent University and an M.A. in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He currently works for the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and is President of the Newfoundland Historic Trust. Dale is a regular writer for and contributor to the Downhomer magazine, and his fortnightly exploration of all things paranormal in the province, "Newfoundland Unexplained," is a regular column in The Telegram.

Jesperson, Rev. Ivan F. arrived in Newfoundland in 1968 as clergman for the United Church on Fogo Island. There he compiled recipes of Newfoundland and Labrador in the cookbook entitled Fat-Back & Molasses. He moved to St. John’s in 1972 and continued pastoral ministry in Wesley United Church until 1975 when he began Jesperson Printing & Publishing. Beginning with The Clerical Caller, a provincial newsletter for the United Church, he went on to regional publishing of Newfoundland folklore and educational text books. Mr. Jesperson left Newfoundland in 1987 and retired from business in 1992. He returned to pastoral work with the United Church but retired in 2000.

Johansen, Michael has been a print and radio journalist since the late 1980s, writing for newspapers, wire services and magazines in Canada and abroad. He was born near Toronto in 1962 and studied in Ontario, Scotland, and Nova Scotia. He settled in Labrador in the late nineties and in between writing fiction and traveling Johansen restores his home, a heritage building in North West River. He is married and has two stepsons. He is temporarily living in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Johnston, Wayne is the author of several novels, including The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Divine Ryans, and the memoir Baltimore’s Mansion. He was born and raised in Newfoundland and now lives in Toronto.

Kavanagh, Ed lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada where he works as a writer, editor, theatre director, and musician specialising in the Celtic harp. He is the author of the Amanda Greenleaf children's books. The Confessions of Nipper Mooney, his first novel for adults, won the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction 2002

Kielley, Kim has been writing since she was a kid. Twenty years ago she graduated from journalism school and pursued her career as a journalist. Today, she is the Associate Editor of The Express in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She has two books already published, “A Boat called Hipjoint” and “Angels and Miracles True Stories.”

Koneazny , John J. (Jack) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He served in the U.S. Maritime Service and the U.S. Army during World War II, having served two years in the European theater of operations. He spent 28 years in the Army Reserves and worked as a tree surgeon until his retirement.Jack and his wife Dottie travelled extensively on their Bahama-built sailboat "Fayaway" for almost 20 winters, and have travelled throughout Europe and the Caribbean since their retirement. They spend their winters in Key Largo, Florida and their summers in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

Laverty, Paula was curator of three major Grenfell mat exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and an exhibition that originated at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto and traveled throughout Canada. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Ledwell, Wayne is from Calvert on the Southern Shore of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland . He has been involved in releasing whales and other marine animals from fishing gear since 1988. He currently operates the Whale Release and Strandings Group, an organization, based in Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s, that specializes in rescuing whales and dolphins.

Leyton, Elliott is one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most distinguished authors and scholars. His books include The Myth of Delinquency, Hunting Humans, Men of Blood and Touched by Fire. He is professor emeritus at Memorial University in Newfoundland, and holds research and faculty appointments in Ireland and England.

Long, James was born in St. John's but spent most of his childhood in Open Hall. He is a graduate of St. Patrick's Hall and Memorial University. In 1991, Jim closed out a nearly 30-year career in education, mainly as an instructor in the community college system. Since retirement, he has devoted much of his time to writing. Jim currently lives in Mount Pearl with his wife Dorothy (nee Gray). He is now working on a new history of King's Cove.

MacLeod, Malcolm A native of Halifax, Malcolm MacLeod has lived in Newfoundland since the 1970’s. He is a past president of the Newfoundland Historical Society and a long time member of the History Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Major, Kevin lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he is a full time writer. His first novel, Hold Fast, received three major Canadian book awards, was named to the Hans Christian Andersen List, and was chosen a Best Book of 1980 by School Library Journal. His second novel, Far from Shore, was the winner of the Canadian Young Adult Book Award and was chosen as Best Book of 1981 by School Library Journal. In addition, he is the author of Thirty-Six Exposures, Dear Bruce Springsteen, and Blood Red Ochre which was a runner up for the Book of the Year for Children Award presented by the Canadian Library Association.

Martin, Willis P. was born in New Harbour, his mother’s home, but spent his early years in several Newfoundland communities where his father taught school. Willis completed high school in Dildo, where his father ended his teaching career. He retired from a career in Telecommunications as an Electrical Engineer in 1993 when research on the family tree and discussions with former local historian Lloyd George brought to light the need for a record of the rich history of the Dildo–New Harbour area, and this work is the result. Willis lives in St. John’s with his wife, Linda (née Wentzell). Their daughter Lisa is a training consultant in Montreal, and daughter Vickie is a medical doctor in Kingston, Ontario.

McCarthy, Michael was born in St. Jacques, Fortune Bay. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Ottawa, graduating with an M.A. in Literature. He taught in a number of communities until his retirement in 1986. Michael McCarthy is the author of three novels and a history book. He is the co-author of an additional eight books and a history of communications called Voice of Generations. Michael McCarthy has also written for several magazines, as well as for radio and television.

McGrath, Daren is a freelance writer, columnist, and author. He has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines including the Halifax Cronicle Herald where he has a regular column, the Downhomer, and The Telegram. This is his fourth book; his most recent work was the best-selling Hitching a Ride: the Unsolved Murder of Dana Bradley. Daren lives in St. John’s with his wife Ann.

McGrath, Robin is the author of nine books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), and Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), and has published close to two hundred pieces in magazines such as Beaver, Inuit Art Quarterly, Parchment, TickleAce, Fiddlehead, and Room of One's Own. She is a regular contributor to CBC Radio, has written and narrated three video scripts, and in 1999 won the Henry Fuerstenberg Poetry Prize, one of the Canadian Jewish book awards.

Millais, John G. (1865-1931) During his lifetime John Guille Millais became an accomplished artist, a writer of considerable note, as well as attaining fame as a landscape gardener, a zoologist and ornithologist. He led a varied life in the pursuit of his interests and became in turn a soldier, a sailor, a British Consul, a big game hunter and much more. He authored more than twenty books,

Miller, Elizabeth was born in St. John’s in 1939, the second of five children of Ted and Dora Russell. She spent her entire career as an educator, first as a high school teacher and principal (at Joe Batt’s Arm), followed by over thirty years on faculty with the English Department at Memorial University. During the 1970s and 1980s, Elizabeth edited numerous collections of the stories of Uncle Mose and published two full-length biographies (on Ted Russell and Norman Duncan). Uncle Mose was the fictitious character invented by her father Ted who appeared on CBC radio regularly in the 1950’s with his Chronicles of Uncle Mose. Elizabeth is now internationally acclaimed as one of the world’s foremost Dracula scholars, having published six books on the subject along with dozens of articles.

Moores, Lorraine Jones grew up in Foxtrap, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland in the 1940s and 50s.Her memories of knowing most most people in the immediate area, and of her parents, seemingly knowing everyone they met along the Shore, led her to explore her family history.
Lorraine was president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society from 1999 to 2002 having held several executive positions during the ten years she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Society.

Morgan, Bernice was born in preconfederate Newfoundland. She has worked for many years in public relations, first with Memorial University of Newfoundland, and later with Newfoundland Teachers’ Association. Many of her short stories have been published in small magazines, anthologies and school textbooks. The mother of two daughters and a son, she lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Random Passage, the 4-part television mini-series, aired on CBC Television, beginning January 27, 2002.

Morrissey, Donna is the author of two award-winning novels, Kit's Law and Downhill Chance, and a screenplay, Clothesline Patch, which won a Gemini Award. Kit's Law, her first novel, won the 2000 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award as well as the Winifred Holtby Prize, an international award that recognizes the best in regional fiction, and the American Library Association's Alex Award. It was shortlisted for the Chapters Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers' Choice Award, and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, which is sponsored by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Downhill Chance won the Raddall Award. Her work has been translated into several different languages. Morrissey grew up in the Beaches, a small fishing outport in Newfoundland, and now lives in Halifax.

Niven, Jennifer divides her time between Atlanta and Los Angeles (where her film Velva Jean Learns to Drive won an Emmy Award and she once played the part of Shania Twain in a music video). However, her true passion is writing, and her first book, The Ice Master, was released in November 2000 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. When she isn't writing, Jennifer studies belly dancing, yoga, and electric guitar; explores her inner bombshell; hikes the great outdoors; scours eBay for rock star memorabilia; immerses herself in the movies of Hollywood's golden age; rabidly follows her favorite TV shows; comes to the rescue of homeless animals; reads three to four books a week when her cats aren't lying on them; and sees as much of the world as she can.

O’Neill, Paul Born in 1928 at St John's, Paul O'Neill graduated from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in New York in 1948, and was a professional actor in the U.S. and England until 1954, when he became a CBC producer. He retired in 1986 as executive producer of performance programming. He was the founding president of the Newfoundland Writers' Guild, and has been a volunteer with over fifty organizations, frequently serving as President or Chair. He has also lectured part time at Memorial University. Today he continues to write and is frequently called on as a guest speaker

Organ, Betty is originally from Bay D'Espoir, Newfoundland. However, she currently resides and works in St. John's, Newfoundland. Betty has worked with young children for several years as a Student Assistant. Betty has also dedicated much of her free time as a volunteer leader with Scouts Canada. My Newfoundland and Labrador Counting Book is Betty's first published work and she looks forward to an exciting and successful future in writing.

Penney, Gilbert is a retired teacher who lives in Springdale, Newfoundland. He is married to the former Gleason Rice of Port Anson and the father of three boys: Glenn, Geoff, and Greg. During the past ten years he and his hiking companion Harvey Rice have become avid backpackers. Their latest venture was their very successful and well-publicized Trek for Health, a fund-raising endeavour for the South and Central Health Foundation. Not yet satisfied by the thrill of meeting the challenge of long distance hiking, they are planning at least one more trek for the summer of 2000, a trek that they hope will, for the first time, include Labrador.

Peyton, Amy Louise is Newfoundland-born and was educated in Twillingate and New York. She married in the United States in 1943. She has lived in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, since 1946, where she settled with her husband Ernest A. Peyton, ex R.A.F., and one-time Councillor and Deputy Mayor of the town. Amy and her husband became Gander’s first florists and horticulturists. Since raising a family of five children, she has retired and turned her interest to music, creative crafts, and writing.

Pickersgill, Peter is a writer, painter, cartoonist, and architect. He was born in Ottawa in 1945 and first came to Newfoundland in 1953 where he discovered another universe. The columns and cartoons between the covers of this book trace his exploration of that universe. The columns have been heard on CBC Radio's "Fisheries Broadcast" and, along with his cartoons, have appeared in the community newspapers in Newfoundland and Labrador. For over thirty years, Peter and his wife, Lisa, spent their summers in Salvage, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, before moving there permanently in 2004.

Pilgrim, Earl was born in St. Anthony in 1939. He received his early education in Roddickton, later studying Forestry at the College of Trades and Technology in St. John’s. He began his adult career in 1960 as an Infantryman in the Canadian Army, serving with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. While there, he became involved in the sport of boxing, eventually becoming the Canadian Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Following a stint in the Forces, he took a job as a Forest Ranger with the Newfoundland and Labrador Forestry Department.

Pittman, Al The late acclaimed poet and author, Al Pittman, died on August 26, 2001 at the age of sixty-one, after a lengthy illness. He was one of Newfoundland's best contemporary writers. Al built an international reputation over the last 40 years creating award-winning poetry, plays and scripts for radio and television. Some of these include the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award, The Canada Council Arts Award, the Lydia Campbell Award, the Stephen Leacock Centenial Award, The Writer's Alliance Book Award for Poetry and has been inducted into the Arts Council's Hall of Honour. Up until his death he was a Writer in Residence at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

Prim, Joseph was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He went to sea in 1943 at age sixteen and served for nine years in the foreign trade. He served for twenty-four years as master of various CN vessels, including the William Carson and the Ambrose Shea. He has published several charts of shipwrecks and ships sunk by enemy action along the Newfoundland and Labrador coast, and he has written articles on navigational changes to shipping along the coast. He is co-author of three books.

Prowse, D.W. (1834-1914), judge and historian, was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and educated at the Church of England Academy, St. John's, and College School, Liverpool. After returning to Newfoundland he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. From 1861 to 1869 he was member of the assembly for the district of Burgeo. He contributed widely to newspapers and periodicals, and his History of Newfoundland from the English, colonial, and foreign records (London, 1895) is a standard work [that has been reprinted several times].

Randall, Silvis is the author of eight books of fiction. A Senior Fulbright Fellow and Thurber House writer-in-residence, his many awards include the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, three National Playwrights Showcase Awards, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and their two sons.L

Redmond, Kevin has spent the past thirty years exploring Newfoundland and Labrador's land, sea and related cultural legacies. He has co-authored: Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters: Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador (1996), A Guide to Sea Kayaking Newfoundland and Labrador (2003) in addition to being a contributing author to a number of other books. As a freelance writer Kevin is published extensively in the area of outdoor adventure in local, national and international publications. An award winning photographer, his images have appeared throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Kevin resides in Portugal Cove with his wife Sophia and his three children Thomas, Susan and Jacquelyn. He spends his free time skiing, hiking, fishing, canoeing, camping and sea kayaking.

Riche, Edward A noted writer for the stage, screen and radio, Edward Riche wrote the feature film Secret Nation and the stage plays Possible Maps and List of Lights. Other projects include CBC Radio’s “The Great Eastern” and scripts for the television comedy “Made in Canada,” as well as the screenplay for Rare Birds. Edward Riche lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Rare Birds is his first novel.

Riggs, Bert holds a B.A. and a B.Ed. from Memorial University and a masters in information studies from the University of Toronto. He has been an archivist at Memorial University since 1989 and currently is head of the Archives and Manuscripts Division at the university’s Queen Elizabeth II Library. He writes a weekly column for the St. John’s Telegram, is a bencher with the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is chair of the board of the Resource Centre for the Arts, owners and operators of the LSPU Hall.

Roberts, Sheilah is a Newfoundlander, history lover, music teacher, singer, and the mother of two teenagers, a cat, and one large dog. She currently resides in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Rompkey, William H. PC, M.A., LL.D. (born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian politician. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 federal election as the Liberal member of Parliament (M.P.) for Grand Falls–White Bay–Labrador, the first of seven consecutive election victories. In 1995, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Rompkey to the Canadian Senate where he still serves. In 2001, he became government whip in the Senate and was deputy leader of the government in the Senate until February 2006.

Ryan, Beth lives and writes in St. John's. A graduate of Memorial University and Ryerson Polytechnical University, she has made her living as a writer since 1987, working in both journalism and communications. For a decade, Beth was a reporter - first for newspapers like The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Hamilton Spectator, The Telegram and NOW Magazine and then for CBC Radio in St John's, Corner Brook

Ryan, Shannon was born and received his early education in Riverhead, Harbour Grace. He has studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland (BA (Ed.), BA, MA). The University of London (Ph.D.) and the University of Oslo. He worked for some time as a schoolteacher in Canada and is presently Associate Professor of History at Memorial University.

Safer, Catherine was born and raised in Newfoundland: the Codroy Valley, Gander and St. John's. She has been scribbling since she could hold a pencil and prefers that activity to most things, even gardening. Bishop's Road is her first novel. Catherine is currently homesick and living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Sanger, Chesley W. is professor emeritus, Department of Geography Memorial University of Newfoundland. His interest in marine mammal exploitation industries includes Eastern Canadian sealing and Scottish Northern whaling. He has also participated in the Newfoundland and Labrador harp and hooded seal fisheries.

Saunders, Gary was born in northeast Newfoundland and received a B.Sc. in forestry from the University of New Brunswick and a bachelor of fine arts from Mount Allison University in 1965. He lectured at Memorial University for two years. His published works include Rattles and Steadies, Alder Music, and Wildlife of Atlantic Canada and New England. He has also written the Atlantic Provinces Book Review. Gary currently lives and works in Nova Scotia.

Silliker, Bill Jr., was one of the world's most respected nature photographers and writers. He was a talented nature photographer, with a passion for the welfare of his subjects and the environment. Bill passed away on October 13, 2003.

Silvis, Randall is the author of eight books of fiction. A Senior Fulbright Fellow and Thurber House writer-in-residence, his many awards include the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, three National Playwrights Showcase Awards, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and their two sons.

Simpson, Catherine holds degrees from Memorial University and Mount Saint Vincent University and has taught at both primary and college levels in rural Newfoundland. In her spare time she enjoys reading, making art, and getting outdoors. Catherine Simpson lives with her husband and son in Lewisporte, Newfoundland.

Small, Larry was born and reared in Morton's Harbor, Notre Dame Bay. He obtained his BA at Memorial University and an MA degree of folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. All of his field research has been in Newfoundland outport communities where he has done extensive work on various aspects of talk among fishermen. Since 1974 he has been teaching in the department of Folklore at Memorial University

Smith, Alex Archibald George was born in St. Anthony, Newfoundland. As a young man, he worked in the family sawmill business and with his brother operated a small coastal freighter around northern Newfoundland and southern Labrador. After a fire that destroyed the vessel and nearly took his life, he worked as a craftsman with the Grenfell Mission and later as a self-employed carpenter.
At the age of 30, he became a lay-supply minister with the United Church of Canada. He was ordained into his full-time ministry at 43 and served the church in many capacities and on several pastoral charges. In 1970, he was elected president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Conference of the United Church. He retired from full-ministry in 1982.

Smith, Ed has taught in schools all over Newfoundland, finally settling in Springdale, where he and his wife, Marion, still live. He has been a high school principal, an assistant superintendent of education, and principal of a college campus in Springdale. Ed retired in 1996, just over two years before a car accident left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. He began writing a humour column for the local newspaper in 1980. Other papers soon began running the column, so that today “The View from Here” appears in six papers and magazines. He has been nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for humour and has written for the Toronto Star and Reader’s Digest.

Stacey, Jean Edwards is a journalist in St. John’s and author of Historic Homes of Newfoundland, Memoirs of a Blue Puttee: The Newfoundland Regiment in World War One, and Government House: Life and Times.

Stafford, Debbie Morrissey is the eldest daughter of Joan Morrissey. At the age of sixteen she started singing with a local band in Mount Pearl and entertained at high school dances. She continued singing and entertaining alongside her mother at charities and clubs around Newfoundland. She was a cast member in on of the “Slob Ice” Revues held in the Arts and Culture Centre with her mother. Debbie now lives in Mount Pearl with her husband Frank and her daughter Tammy. She strongly believes in keeping her mother’s memory and her music alive so all Newfoundlanders, young and old, will know of her mother’s great contribution to our province’s musical heritage.

Strowbridge, Nellie P. winner of numerous provincial and national awards, has been published nationally and internationally. Her work is capsuled in The National Archives and has been studied in schools and universities as far away as Belarus. Strowbridge, a former columnist, editorial writer and essayist, has been Writer in the Library, a mentor to young writers, and an adjudicator in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards. She has also held school workshops and hosted Gabfest for International Women's Day in Cobh, Ireland where she was Writer-in-Residence. The Canadian Embassy in Dublin also sponsored a reading and a reception.
Strowbridge is a member of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Writers' Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, Page One, and the Newspaper Institute of America.

Tarrant, D.R. is a retired Professional Engineer who has more than thirty years experience in the communications industry. He has written three books, Atlantic Sentinel, Marcoin’s Miracle, and Challenge and Change. He resides in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Thomas, Willie, who has published Cristoforo under the pseudonym Willie Thomas, is a Quebecer of Irish and Acadian descent who has been living in Montreal since 1979. He is a freelance editor and has also worked as a journalist for professional publications and specialized magazines, as well as for non-profit organizations. He was born in Cabano, near the Quebec border to New Brunswick and Maine, in 1955. Thus, it is no coincidence that a good part of Cristoforo takes place in this corner of the world. In 1997, the same year it was first published in French by XYZ, éditeur, Cristoforo won the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.

Tibbo, Frank F. is a former aviation industry worker and a local historian. He lives in Gander, Newfoundland, where he writes the aviation column for The Beacon.

Townsend, C.W. (M.D.) was born in Boston, November 10, 1850, the son of Thomas Davis and Frances Barnard (Smith) Townsend, he was of good old New England stock, for the Townsends came to this country from Norfolk, England, in 1637. Graduating from Harvard College in the class of 1881, he turned naturally to the study of medicine like his grandfather. In 1906 he made a summer’s journey by mail steamer along the eastern coast of Labrador, In 1911 he pre-pared an abridged and annotated edition of Captain Cartwright’s ‘Journal’ kept during his attempt to establish a settlement on this coast at Cape Charles, published in three volumes in 1792, bringing together especially the natural history notes.

Vautier, Clarence Jr. was born in 1972 in La Poile, Newfoundland. Clarence moved away to attend high school, and after high school he fished with his father Clarence Sr. and his brother Raymond for a short time. Upon completion of school at the Nautical Institute of Nova Scotia in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Clarence obtained employment with Biorex Atlantic Inc., where he took many voyages on many fishing vessels on the east coast of Canada.
In 1994, he enrolled at the Institute of Fisheries and Marine Technology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in St. John's, where he studied navigation. He later went to work as a deck officer on The Great Lakes, first for P & H Shipping, then for Algoma Central Marine, where he remains today.
Clarence Vautier currently resides in St. John's with his wife, Marina, and his son, Brandon Daniel.

Wallace, Ian one of Canada's best known and loved author/illustrators, has either won or been nominated for a truly amazing list of picture book awards. Among the many honours he has won are the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award and the Mr. Christie award for illustration (for The Name of the Tree, published in 1990) and the Amelia Francis Howard Gibbon Award.

Walsh, Alice freelance writer, felt an immediate connection with the story of Anne Harvey and Hairy Man. She grew up in a small village much like Isle aux Morts. A former pre-school teacher, she is the author of Uncle Farley’s False Teeth and The Model Soldier. Alice Walsh now writes full-time and lives in Nova Scotia.

Wilson, Dale was born in 1958 in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was reared on his family farm in the rural community of River Hebert. He was active in the Army Cadets by the age of 12 and joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 15 years by sneaking in. He sailed with the Canadian Navy for 15 years and received several accolades including the CD medal, awarded by Government of Canada, and the Research Commendation, awarded by Commander Canadian Fleet (Admiralty).
He is self-taught as a photographer and first took an interest in the media in 1988. In 1990 he resigned from the military to pursue a career as a freelance photographer. Dale currently lives in the Halifax suburb of Eastern Passage with his wife and two sons.

Wilson, Ian, who lived in Bristol for 26 years, is the best selling author of such books as The Turin Shroud, Jesus: The Evidence, The Undiscovered (a review of lost cities, sunken ships, and unlocated tombs waiting to be found again) and The Columbus Myth.

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