FRANK COSENTINO has been playing, coaching, teaching, or writing about sport for five decades.As one of the last Canadian quarter-backs, Cosentino played for Hamilton, Edmonton, and Toronto, participating in five Grey Cup games from 1961 through 1965 with two...

Dennis Gazarek graduated in 1972 from the University of Windsor with a Bachelor of Commerce in Honours Business Administration and has spent almost his entire life immersed in the auto business. His father, uncle, brother, and cousins all were employed in the...

Born in Ottawa, renowned portrait artist, Shirley Van Dusen, wife of the late Tom Van Dusen Sr. and is the mother of seven children, grandmother to fifteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.Widely known for her paintings of Parliament Hill, her work is...

Once upon a time, Sandra Marie Lewis was a teacher/chairperson in Ontario’s public school system. Since retirement, she has written novels, a few poems, short stories, picture books, and family history narratives. Genealogy is a source of huge fascination, and her own...

Peter Paproski was born in Edmonton, where Ice Cream Stories about Dad is set. He moved to Ottawa with his family in 1968, at age twelve. He attended the University of Alberta (B.Sc.) and McGill (M.A. Education), and for thirty years worked in international...

Kate Kelly, MD, FRCSC (“Dr. Kate”) Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Kate has been at various times an author, artist, photographer, teacher, historian, and medical doctor. Her creativity and love of discovery keep her seeing the world through the eyes of a...

Richard Paton had a unique career as a senior executive in the federal government and as President of a nonprofit business association for 19 years.  Throughout his career he has applied his forty years of management experience in two sectors to research and learning...

Robert Knuckle was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He received his B.A. from the University of Windsor in 1957 and M.Ed. from the University of Toronto in 1968. He began writing full-time in 1992. Prior to that, Mr. Knuckle was an English and Latin teacher and a...

Elizabeth Radmore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 with her parents, Molly and James McKnight, and her two brothers, James and George. Her father was originally destined for Leduc, Alberta, but when he stopped in Ottawa to see...

Judy Kozar is a recently retired teacher-librarian. She and her husband, Verne, also a retired teacher, enjoy life in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They have two grown daughters, Tracy and Karen. Author Title: Canada's War Grooms and the Girls Who Stole Their Hearts...

Irene Robillard was raised on a dairy farm near the hamlet of Edwards, which is now in the southeast end of the extended city of Ottawa. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (Hon.) degree in Biology from Carleton University in 1974. While there, she met and married a...

Peter Kunstadt grew up in Czechoslovakia, having survived internment during the Holocaust. He and his wife Susan came to Canada at the time of the Soviet occupation of their homeland in 1968.After enjoying a successful career as a professional engineer, Peter retired...

Bob Leroux was born in 1945 and raised in Alexandria, Glengarry County. At the age of thirteen, his family moved to Ottawa, where he attended high school and university. Taking a break from his studies, he spent some time working up north on the Mid-Canada Line. After...

An award-winning journalist, Bob Levin was a features editor at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, executive editor at Maclean's and a writer at Newsweek in New York. His first novel, Away Game, a baseball-themed story, was released in 2016 to strong reviews. A native...

Tom MacGregor was born and grew up in Huntsville, Ontario. After graduating from Queen’s University in Kingston, he worked as a journalist for The Huntsville Forester, The Edmonton Sun and Maclean’s Magazine. He is currently the News Editor of Legion Magazine in...

Bruce MacGregor has been a resident of Ottawa since 1952. He was involved in the Ottawa sports scene as a participant in the 1950s and '60s and as a coach in the '70s. He taught English at Ottawa's Glebe Collegiate for 30 years.For 25 years, he was a member of a rock...

Educated at McGill and Cambridge Universities, Robert MacIntosh has lived over fifty years in Toronto. After a brief career as an academic economist and long one as a banker, he wrote Different Drummers: Banking and Politics in Canada, published in 1991. A collector...

Marina Abdel Malak is a nursing student with an interest in medicine and mental illness. She is an active advocate for the National Eating Disorder Information Centre and volunteers with many organizations. She loves to read, write, laugh, and learn new things. She...

Ms. Mansfield is an author, pioneer in harm reduction programming and development in Canada, and a former sex survival worker. She has lectured at universities and colleges where her first book, Danced in my Brain, was used as required reading for social work and...

Gord is a unique blend of Renaissance man and skilled outdoorsman. We use “unique blend” advisedly, as he is without any mechanical skills and his shotgunning remains mediocre.Married to Michelle since 1955 and father of three achieving daughters, he is a retired...

JUDITH MILLAR’S 1992 fiction collection, The Rules of Partial Existence, explored themes of escape and difference in the exotic setting of Nepal. With its return to her small-town Ontario roots, Grave Concern (2012), the first of her playful “Pine Rapids” mystery...

Glenn Forbes MillerGlenn Forbes Miller has spent the leisurely years of his retirement (he was formerly a teacher of English) travelling the world with his wife and writing; namely, two books about their travels in Nepal and two volumes of poetry, of time and desiring...

Larry Oakley was born and raised in downtown Toronto, Ontario.He graduated from Riverdale Collegiate and Ryerson University before becoming a professional accountant.He became passionate about hunting and the outdoors when he moved to Kingston.The Kingston...

Anthony (Jo) Johansen grew up in England during World War II, joined the British Merchant Navy, and rose to the rank of captain before leaving for Canada to attend McGill University in Montreal. Armed with a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in economics and...

Writer and Activist Helen Forsey grew up in Ottawa in a very political family, studied agriculture at McGill, and then worked in Ecuador with CUSO before returning to Canada. After eighteen years in international co-operation and public education, she moved out of the...

On his first day with CBC in Frobisher Bay, now Iqaluit, in 1967, Whit Fraser was immediately designated "a reporter." With no time to recover from the shock, he bravely stepped into the role and spent the next 25 years covering the Arctic for both the CBC Northern...

Kylee Goldman is a Canadian Certified Counsellor-Supervisor and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. She works as a child and family therapist in children’s mental health, primarily working with families with children from birth to age six, and provides play...

Arch Haslett was born in Mimico, Ontario, in 1939. He attended Mimico High School, where he met his wife, Patty. After graduating from Trinity College, University of Toronto, he returned, in 1963, to Mimico High School to teach science.In 1966, he and Patty moved to...

Malcom Hunter has skied the Gatineau for more than 60 years. He began as a 7-year-old skiing to Keogan Lodge and was the Canadian leading male cross-country skier at the 1972 Olympics. The sport has remained a big part of his life. He has been a ski coach, a trail...

Dick Bourgeois–Doyle has contributed to many books, articles, TV features, and radio programs on the history of science and creativity in Canada. His biographies of inventive and heroic Canadians have been dubbed “fascinating and inspiring . . . thorough and engaging”...

WILLIAM ROBERT BYERS was born on September 20, 1946, at the Smiths’ Hospital in Hawkesbury, Ontario, the only son of Charles (Carol) E. Byers and Marion Allen. Two much older sisters, Ruth and Mary, and a younger sister, Anne, completed the family. Fenham was their...

Educated in public health nursing and business management, Judith has had thirty years’ experience in community and occupational health nursing, serving in both grass-roots and management positions. As assistant director of the Ottawa–Carleton Home Care Program from...

Wayne Campbell began as a biochemist but spent most of his career as a science writer, first as a journalist (Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, New Scientist), then as an editor/writer for Canadian universities, research hospitals and government. His literary heroes are...

Jane Vlasblom Collins holds an honours degree in Business Administration and a professional designation as a Chartered Accountant. She has experience as a manager, business owner, and teacher. As an entrepreneur, she has provided professional development courses and...

Brent Connelly was raised in the lower Ottawa Valley town of Brownsburg, Quebec.  In 1961, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from the University of New Brunswick and went on to enjoy a four-decade career working in the forests of Ontario’s two...

A celebrated storyteller, Mary Cook has been delighting Canadian audiences for years with her remembrances of growing up on the family farm during the bittersweet years of the 1930s. Mary Cook has received seven Actra awards for excellence in broadcast journalism...

Richard Cooper is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of The Cooper Brothers, the ’70s country-rock group that had a number of Billboard Top 100 hits and toured with the Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, and Charlie Daniels. When the band members parted ways...

John Curry, a Carleton University journalism graduate, began his community newspaper career with the Arnprior Guide and then moved to the Elmvale Lance. In 1975, he purchased The Stittsville News, continuing as publisher and editor until 2001 when he sold the paper...

Luciano DiNardo was an English teacher for twenty-eight years and has written several freelance columns and features for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the Ottawa Citizen. He is married and the father of two sons. He is currently living in Ottawa.  Author...

Helen Douglas is a retired veterinarian who spent most of her life living, riding and practicing veterinary medicine in the Ottawa Valley. In Williams’s Gift, stories of an early career as a country veterinarian when there were few women in that profession take one...

Bill Adams has enjoyed a 32-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, starting as a uniform investigator in small rural Manitoba towns and culminating as the Superintendent in charge of Serious and Organized Crime Intelligence Branch in HQ Ottawa. Bill...

L.M. Blanchard has studied different forms of meditation for the past twenty years and has been active in spiritual exploration ever since his early childhood. While in Hawaii in 2012, he was initiated as a Deeksha Facilitator (Oneness Blessing Giver) by Lindsay...

Tim Bouma grew up in the village of Leith, Ontario, the village of Tom Thomson’s childhood. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario, is married with three wonderful boys and is employed as a federal public servant. Since 2011, Tim has been the man behind the Twitter account and...

Sunder S. Arora (Vyasa), M.D., is an adult and child psychiatrist, an interfaith minister, yoga teacher, family man, and inspiring spiritual teacher. In Ushering in Heaven, he combines the wisdom of yoga, metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology, and practical wisdom...

Robbie Anderman has had an intimate working relationship with Trees for several decades, as orchardist, nurseryperson, Tree pruner, luthier, woodwind musician, off-grid forest homesteader, sustainable Tree harvester, and Tree herbalist using Tree medicine for himself...

Bartsiokas, TomTom Bartsiokas works as a professor at Seneca. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Christine, and their daughters Angelina, Deanna and Elena.