Sid Marty
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, Prince Albert and Banff national parks.
Sid Marty
- Born
- 1944
- Occupation
- writer · poet · singer · environmentalist
- Fields
- literature · poetry · music · nature conservation
- Education
- Sir George Williams University
- Languages
- English
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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, Prince Albert and Banff national parks.
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Marty grew up in Medicine Hat and Calgary, and now lives in Pincher Creek. He received an undergraduate degree from Sir George Williams University. 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.
• 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.
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- 1.Gloin, Doug. Under the spell of the Great Chinook, Sid Marty writes of his passion for Alberta. Toronto Star. 12 January 1997.
- 2.Bear tale is a perfect storm of drama. The Gazette (Montreal). 23 October 2008.
- 3.McGoogan, Kenneth. Another Side of Sid Marty. The Calgary Herald. 3 February 1983.
- 4.Loran, Tom. Park Warden Turns Writer. The StarPhoenix. 26 April 1978.
- 5.Marty, Sid. Requiem for a Mountain Sanctuary. The Tyee. 28 March 2022.
- 6.Bergman, Brian. Born to Be High and Wild. Maclean's.
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