Pam Hobbs is a travel writer and author.

Life and work

Hobbs is the youngest of seven daughters born in 1929 to Edie and Jack Hobbs in

Leigh-on-Sea Leigh-on-Sea (), commonly referred to simply as Leigh, is a town and civil parish in the City of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. In 2011, it had a population of 22,509. Geography Leigh-on-Sea is on the northern ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

, in southern

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. She has written about her experience of evacuation as a child. Hobbs emigrated to

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

in 1950. To celebrate Canada's centennial year in 1967, she and her husband and young children started exploring their adoptive country in a camper van, eventually travelling between the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Hobbs' travel stories based on these family adventures were published in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

newspapers. For the following 19 years, she travelled the world, writing a minimum of 40 travel articles per year for

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

. Since then, she has contributed illustrated travel stories to many of North America's foremost newspapers and magazines, has appeared on radio and television, and has written or co-authored six travel-related books. Hobbs and her husband live in Toronto's Beach district.

Bibliography

*''The Adventure Guide to Canada'', 1991 *''Free to Travel'', 1993 (with Michael Algar) *''Visitors' Guide to Canada'', 1994 *''Pam Hobbs' Britain'',1995 *''Off the Beaten Track, Western Canada'', 1995 (with Joanna Ebbutt and Michael Algar) *''Off the Beaten Track, Eastern Canada'', 1995 (with Joanna Ebbutt and Michael Algar) *''Don't Forget to Write: the true story of an evacuee and her family'', 2002 *''BRITAIN, Best of the Best'', 2013

Awards

*North American Travel Journalist Association - (Gold) 2006 and 2008 *Association of National Tourist Representatives, Canada, - (Writer of the Year) 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 *Mature Media - 2005 (2 gold awards), 2006 (2 gold awards)

References

External links

www.pamhobbs.com

www.firsttravelbug.com
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