Writers
Dr. Martha Walls, Senior Editor
Dr. Martha Walls currently teaches in the history department of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She has been with MacIntyre Purcell Publishing since 2005, and authored the Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island Books of Everything, and co-wrote the Nova Scotia Book of Everything.
Tim Lehnert, Senior Editor
Freelance writer Tim Lehnert lives in Cranston, Rhode Island, with his wife and two daughters. He was the Editorial Director of the Manitoba Book of Everything, and also contributed to the Montreal Book of Everything, his former home. His articles on the Ocean State and other topics have appeared in publications including the Providence Journal, the Providence Phoenix, Rhode Island Monthly, the Boston Globe and the Montreal Gazette.
MANITOBA
Christine Hanlon
Homegrown Manitoba writer Christine Hanlon is passionate about her province, and has traveled it extensively. She has written about Manitoba’s vibrant culture, people and places for publications including Style Manitoba, Western Living and Going Places.
Barbara Edie
Barbara Edie is a Winnipeg-based writer who enjoys discovering the best of her province and has written about its people and places in publications including the Winnipeg Free Press, Manitoba Business and Manitoba's Northern Experience. As the current editor of The Cottager magazine, she continues to explore Manitoba's natural beauty and share stories of its stunning lake country.
Doreen Pendgracs
Doreen Pendgracs is a frequent traveller and widely published travel writer. She is co-author of Frommer's Newfoundland & Labrador, and has feature credits in Canadian
Geographic, Winnipeg Life and many other magazines. But happily, much of her time is spent in her home province of Manitoba, at her new-found sanctuary in Matlock on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
HAMILTON
Kim Arnott
Hamilton-based freelance writer, Kim Arnott writes primarily on municipal affairs and education issues, and lives in the east-end of the city with her husband and son. A graduate of McMaster’s University, she has lived in Hamilton for over 20 years and continues to be surprised by the city that lies beyond the Steel City nickname.
Marvin Ross
Marvin Ross is based in Dundas and has been writing for over 25 years. Although he specializes in medical and health issues, he also writes on business, humour, education and travel. He is the author of eleven books including the coffee table book, Hamilton: A New City for a New Millennium.
Cheryl MacDonald
Cheryl MacDonald has been writing about Canadian history for nearly 30 years. A long-time resident of Nanticoke, she is a full-time writer and historian whose weekly history column appears in the Simcoe Times-Reformer. Her historical articles have appeared in The Beaver, Hamilton Spectator, The Old Farmer's Almanac and Maclean's. Cheryl has written more than 26 books on Canadian and Ontario history.
VANCOUVER ISLAND
Peter Grant
Peter Grant is a writer based in Victoria, B.C. He is the author of, among many, Victoria: a History in Photographs, The Story of Sidney and Wish You Were Here: Life on Vancouver Island in Historical Postcards. He is married to Paula and father of Molly, his daughter.
Suzanne Morphet
Suzanne Morphet has a degree in journalism from Carleton University and went north to Yellowknife for her first job as a reporter and later, senior editor, for CBC Radio News, where she worked for the better part of a decade. She has called the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island home since 1994, where she splits her time between medical writing and travel writing; the former for the pay, the latter for the fun! In her spare time she enjoys hiking, kayaking and spending time with the weeds in her garden.
Diane Selkirk
Diane Selkirk is a sixth-generation Vancouver Islander who was born in the Comox Valley. It was when researching a story that she first discovered that her ancestor Charlie Taylor settled in the Alberni Valley in 1860. The discovery piqued her interest in Vancouver Island history. Being a writer, Diane decided to write about all the places and people that intrigue her and she's been published in numerous national and international publications, including Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, Canadian Family, Northwest Travel, Northwest Palate and Pacific Yachting.
Nova Scotia Book of Musts
Allan Lynch has bobbed around icebergs in the North Atlantic, hung upside down in the forest near Calgary (okay, that was a mistake), gone snowbiking in the Rockies (expletive deleted), twice cycled the length of PEI and drank with a man dressed as a cow at St. John’s George Street Festival. All of which gets translated into articles for individual travelers and group planners from Sweden to Singapore. Whether visiting wine makers in Tuscany, boating in France, touring Christmas markets in Germany, joining pub-crawls in Dublin, or living large in London, Allan always returns to home to Nova Scotia. “Maritimers are the boomerang people,” says Allan. “Wherever we may live or travel, the East Coast remains home. Whatever our successes elsewhere, it fuels the ultimate Maritime dream and aspiration to return to this rocky, delicious, wind-swept coast.”
PEI Book of Musts
Erin Moore is a journalist and writer originally from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She was a reporter for CBC Television in Toronto, Halifax and Charlottetown. She has a Masters of Global Journalism degree from Örebro University in Sweden and worked as a journalism trainer in Ghana for Journalists for Human Rights. She lives in Charlottetown with her husband Ted.
