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Roy MacGregor OC is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction. Roy MacGregor was born in Whitney, Ontario in 1948 and grew up in Huntsville, Ontario. [1] . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Laurentian University and a graduate diploma in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in 1972. [2] .
Roy MacGregor is an author, columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail. Before joining in 2002, he worked for the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's...
Aug 1, 2023 · His new memoir, Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, vividly demonstrates how he has held his place as one of Canada’s greatest journalists and best-liked practitioners for more than 50 years.
Roy MacGregor is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the U.S. Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People, as well as two novels, Canoe ...
Aug 22, 2023 · Ottawa’s Roy MacGregor spent his storied journalism career — including at the Ottawa Citizen — covering hockey, politics, canoeing and Canada. In this excerpt from his latest book, Paper Trails,...
Like Thomson with his paintbrush and canvas, Roy Macgregor perfectly captures the rugged Algonquin wilderness in an incredibly well-researched telling of Ontario's greatest mystery.
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Roy MacGregor is a great storyteller and an obviously passionate canoeist. He recounts the history and the importance of the canoe as a Canadian icon and tool that opened up the west. He also manages to weave in his own personal anecdotes, some colorful characters and some well-researched history.
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In Escape, Roy MacGregor explores the powerful hold the wilderness, and the thought of our place in it, has on our imaginations. He weaves together chapters of personal history, telling of his family’s deep connection to the lakes and forests of central Ontario, and chapters that detail the evolution of the idea of wilderness in Canada and ...
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One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories. From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went.
Jan 1, 1999 · In this beautifully crafted memoir of his father, Roy MacGregor paints an intimate portrait of an unusual man and spins a spellbinding tale of a boy’s complex relationship with his father.
