Profile Category: Creators

Donna Stewart, a retired teacher. brings her enthusiasm for outdoor sports and teaching to writing for young children. From her home on the Bruce Peninsula, she has many opportunities to play in and on the waters of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. Paddle to Rattlesnake Island was inspired by my experiences kayaking with my children,” she...

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...

Fran Sanagan operates a studio in Southampton, and each summer leads a landscape photography workshop for the Southampton School of the Arts. His work is part of David Archibald’s presentation, “Spirit of the Inland Seas”. From the sparkling images in Lakeshore Landmarks, Fran’s work varies through sports team photos, wedding albums and action shots for news...

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...

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...

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...

Raised on the Bruce Peninsula, Allan Bartley has worked as a journalist for a number of Canadian daily newspapers. His education is in political science and journalism, and his previous publications include Alexander MacNeill, A Political Life. He edited the Lindsay Township history, Proud People. Now retired from Canadian security agency, he is an adjunct...

Alison Thielman has illustrated stories written by her mom, Toni Thielman, and decorated store windows for Christmas in her home town of Kincardine. She created the cover art for Barricade Summer, and for the Listening Response Logs to accompany it. The drawings in both Stocking Stories are also Alison’s work.

Jon Radojkovic has freelanced as a photographer and journalist with the Owen Sound daily newspaper, The Sun Times, and local weeklies such as The Chesley Enterprise and The Markdale Standard, and the monthly Mosaic. Barns of the Queen’s Bush is his first book.Jon is the co-founder of Ontario Barn Preservation. Jon and his family live on a farm in Sullivan Township, northeast...

Judy Lowry has been writing for decades, while studying and teaching art, creating and exhibiting multi-dimensional works.She is a founding member of the Words Aloud poetry collective, and an active participant in and organizer of readings presented by that group. Her written works have been included in the Double Vision anthology, in a chapbook and...