Profile Category: Creators

Sandy Conrad lives in Saugeen Shores, and has taught English, Drama, and Creative Writing at secondary schools in both Port Elgin and Kincardine. Her short stories have been winners in contests and published in anthologies around Ontario. Daughters and Other Strangers is her first solo collection. This is the first of its publications nominated for an Arthur...

Like Agnes Macphail, Donna Mann grew up in a home where politics and community were important, a father’s consent must come before a girl could continue her education, and only certain vocations were acceptable. But continue she did, to university in Waterloo and Toronto, Ontario, and Newburgh, Indiana. In her studies and research into her...

“My feet led me to the land, the land led me to thoughts, and here I am to show you.”Having lived in Grey County, Ontario, since birth, Dave loves to wonder at the world and consider our place in it. A musician, labourer, traveller, and settler, he seeks to synthesize the intellectual, the artistic, and...

Brianne Maas has returned to her home community of Saugeen Shores She has been drawing and designing since childhood, and won the Senior Visual Arts Award at Saugeen District Secondary School. Her art has appeared on the cover of Southampton Art School catalogue and an issue of The Leaf. Living on her own, Brianne fills...

A boy entrant in the RAF, Andrew Cox was already qualified aircrew when World War II broke out. After more than 40 successful missions, he was shot down over Germany, and spent nearly five years as a prisoner of war. His memoirs of that time are presented in Our Spirit Unbroken, released in October 1999....

The author of Thirty Years On Call: A Country Doctor’s Family Life, was the first of Robert and Viola Tucker’s daughters born in Paisley. As well as a career in advertising, she edited a magazine, and wrote numerous articles. The author of one other book, “Agnes Macphail, Reformer”, a biography of Canada’s first woman Member...

John R. Hardy’s fascination with trains began with the CPR Goderich line which ran through his family’s farm in Huron County, Ontario. As boys, he and his brother played in empty boxcars stored in a siding at the edge of the farm. In the fall of 1961, the track was laid for this book when...

One of the last people still around who grew up on the boats of Port Elgin harbour, John G. Mackay was born at 212 Green Street, near that harbour on November 14, 1936. He attended the local public school on Stafford Street and the high school on Goderich Street. After graduating, he attended the University...

Joan E. McHugh feels privileged to have spent so much time with her great-aunt, Elizabeth Penson, both as a young girl and when she and her family shared their home with the aged woman. She especially cherishes the first-hand memories related by Elizabeth. Always an avid reader and willing listener to family tales, Joan has...