Sid Marty (born 1944) is a Canadian writer.
Marty has written five non-fiction books and five poetry books, and also is a singer.
Many of his books reflect the time he spent as a
park warden for
Parks Canada between 1966 and 1978 in
Yoho,
Jasper
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,
Prince Albert and
Banff national parks.
Marty grew up in
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff to the northwest are with ...
and
Calgary, and now lives in
Pincher Creek
Pincher Creek is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies, west of Lethbridge and south of Calgary.
History
For centuries before European settlers reached this area and inhabited it, Indig ...
. He received an undergraduate degree from
Sir George Williams University
Sir George Williams University was a university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It merged with Loyola College to create Concordia University on August 24, 1974.
History
In 1851, the first YMCA in North America was established on Sainte-Hélène ...
.
His three poetry collections are ''Headwaters,'' ''Nobody Danced with Miss Rodeo'' and ''Sky Humour''; ''The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek'' won the Grand Prize of the
Banff Mountain Book Festival in 2008.
Works
* 1973: ''Headwaters'' (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
* 1978: ''Men for the Mountains'', Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 320 pages.
* 1981: ''Nobody Danced With Miss Rodeo'' (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 108 pages.
* 1985: ''A Grand and Fabulous Notion: The first century of Canada's parks,'' Toronto: NC Press, 156 pages.
* 1995: ''Leaning on the Wind: Under the spell of the great Chinook,'' Toronto: Harper-Collins, 352 pages.
* 1999: ''Sky Humour'' (poetry), Windsor: Black Moss, 102 pages.
* 1999: ''Switchbacks: true stories of the Canadian Rockies,'' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 336 pages.
* 2008: ''The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek,'' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 296 pages.
References
Living people
1944 births
People from Medicine Hat
Writers from Calgary
Sir George Williams University alumni
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