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Brief Biography
Gary Saunders was born in tiny Clarkes Head, Newfoundland, in 1935, some 30 years before electricity and road traffic arrived, and when sea and river were still the only avenues to the outside world. He received a B.Sc. in Forestry from the University of New Brunswick in 1959, and a B.F.A. from Mount Allison in 1965.
"Growing up in this place and time, to leave at the age of ten for town and city, left a vacuum that I filled with stories and visual imagery from my childhood. From these come my books and paintings."
Since the sixties he has published articles in magazines like Nature Canada, Canadian Living, and American Forests, and 13 books.
Selected List of Publications
- Free Wind Home: A Childhood Memoir, 1935-48. Breakwater Books, 2007. ISBN 1550812319.
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- At A Glance: A Guide to Identifying and Managing Nova Scotia Hardwoods. (Illus. by author). Nova Forest Alliance, 2004.
- So Much Weather: Facts, Phenomena and Weather Lore from Atlantic Canada. Nimbus Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-55109-382-0.
- Discover Nova Scotia: The Ultimate Nature Guide. Nimbus Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-55109-242-5. (Available through NS Museum)
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction.
- "For Saunders landscapes are like symphonies. He shares his appreciation of the rhythms inherent in the elements and his unique and educated perspective." - "A Superb Reference Guide!" Review by Ronnie Scullion. Outdoor Nova Scotia, 2001.
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- Doctor, When You're Sick You're Not Well: Forty Years of Outpatient Humour from Twillingate Hospital, Newfoundland. Breakwater Books, 1998. ISBN 1-55081-142-8. Illus.
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- Rattles and Steadies: Memoirs of a Gander Riverman. Breakwater, 1986. ISBN 0-919519-73-3.
- The author retells his father's stories in the first person, thereby illuminating the little-known history of Newfoundlanders who made a living from her wilderness woods and waters. Illus.
- The Man Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing. NS Dept. of Lands and Forests, 1982. ISBN 0-88871-025-9.
- A fable for children about our modern dependence on wood products.
- The Brook and the Woodcutter. NS Dept. of Lands and Forests, 1979. ISBN 0-88871-007-0.
- A modern fable about forest conservation.
- Trees of Nova Scotia. NS Dept. of Lands and Forests, 1970. ISBN 1-55109-123-2.
- An illustrated guide (b&w) to the native and exotic species. Revised edition #31996 with NS Museum. Illus.
- Doctor Olds of Twillingate: Portrait of an American Surgeon in Newfoundland. Breakwater, 1994. ISBN 1-55081-092-8.
- Young Connecticut-born John McKee Olds was offered a residency at John Hopkins in Baltimore but chose instead to serve the 100 hamlets of then-remote Notre Dame Bay, where for over 40 years his skill, daring, inventive genius and cussedness made him a legend. Illus.
