Wade Rowland is a Canadian science, technology, and history writer. He is currently a lecturer at

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Biography

Rowland was born in

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Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

in 1944. He was married in 1978 to Christine Collie, with whom he has two children, Simon and

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. Rowland has worked as a journalist for the

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, the

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, and Canadian television networks CBC and CTV. He holds a

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from

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. He has lectured at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and is a former Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is currently a professor of communications at York University. He has resided in Port Hope, Ontario since 1982.

Galileo's Mistake

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References

External links

Wade Rowland's official websiteWade Rowland's blog
Anglophone Quebec people Canadian male novelists Living people Writers from Montreal People from Northumberland County, Ontario 1944 births York University alumni Academic staff of Trent University Academic staff of Toronto Metropolitan University Academic staff of York University Canadian male non-fiction writers {{Canada-nonfiction-writer-stub