Dane Lanken (December 9, 1945 – March 3, 2023) was a Canadian journalist and author.
Career
Lanken was a film critic for the ''
Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...
'' from 1967 to 1977, and was then a freelance journalist who wrote regularly for ''
Canadian Geographic
''Canadian Geographic'' is a magazine published by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, (RCGS) based in Ottawa, Ontario.
History and profile
After the Society was founded in 1929, the magazine was established the next year in May 1930 unde ...
'',
among other publications such as ''Glengarry Life'', the annual volume of the Glengarry Historical Society.
Lanken wrote ''Montreal Movie Palaces: Great Theatres of the Golden Era 1884 - 1938'', which includes photographs by Brian Merrett and Julie Greto. In 2007 he wrote the career biography of folksingers
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters (and sisters) from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.
Music ca ...
.
Personal life and death
Lanken was married to singer-songwriter
Anna McGarrigle
Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944) is a Canadian folk music singer and songwriter who recorded and performed with her sister, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010.
Early life
Anna McGarrigle studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréa ...
, and has appeared as a vocalist on several of her albums with her sister
. McGarrigle and Lanken have two children, Lily Lanken and Sylvan Lanken, and lived near the
Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario (census population 1,763,186 in 2016) (french: Est de l'Ontario) is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River. It sh ...
town of Alexandria, in
North Glengarry
North Glengarry is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. It is a predominantly elderly invaded rural area located between Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal and Cornwall.
Communities
The township ...
.
Lanken died on March 3, 2023.
References
External links
Dane Lanken profile at Penumbra Press
1945 births
2023 deaths
Writers from Montreal
Anglophone Quebec people
Montreal Gazette people
McGarrigle-Wainwright-Roche family
Canadian film critics
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