Will ferguson author biography john

  • Will Ferguson of Calgary is a best-selling author whose poetic work His father, John Ferguson, was a schoolteacher who later taught at Brandon University.
  • Will Ferguson was born in the former fur-trading post of Fort Vermilion (pop: 840), in northern Canada.
  • William Ferguson (19 February 1924 – 8 January 2021) was a Scottish academic and author who specialised in the history of Scotland.
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    Publication beställning of Miranda Abbott Mystery Books

    with Ian Ferguson
    I Only Read Murder(2023)
    Mystery in the Title(2024)

    Publication beställning of Standalone Novels

    Happiness / Generica(2001)
    Spanish flyga eller fly undan / Hustle(2007)
    419(2012)
    The Shoe on the Roof(2017)
    The Finder(2020)

    Publication beställning of Non-Fiction Books

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan(1998)
    Hokkaido Highway Blues / Hitching Rides with Buddha(1998)
    I Was a Teenage Katima-Victim: A Canadian Odyssey(1998)
    Why inom Hate Canadians(1999)
    Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present(1999)
    The Girlfriend's Guide to Hockey / Clueless About Hockey (1999)
    Canadian History for Dummies(2000)
    How to Be a Canadian (2003)
    Beauty råd from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada(2004)
    Beyond Belfast: A 560 Mile
  • will ferguson author biography john
  • William Ferguson (historian)

    Scottish historian (1924–2021)

    William Ferguson (19 February 1924 – 8 January 2021) was a Scottish academic and author who specialised in the history of Scotland. He studied history at Glasgow and Oxford, and spent most of his academic career at the University of Edinburgh. He retired from teaching in 1989, but continued his research and his writing, publishing The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest in 1998. He died on 8 January 2021, aged 96.

    Early life and education

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    Ferguson was born in Muirkirk in on 19 February 1924. His father worked on the railway line between Muirkirk and Lanark, and in the 1930s gained a promotion that caused him to move to Glasgow. Ferguson had intended to study medicine, and in the Second World War was called up to work as a naval medic; after the war however, he decided to study history. He completed his first undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow, and in 1950 he went enrolled at

    Will Ferguson was born in the former fur-trading post of Fort Vermilion (pop: 840), in northern Canada. “Closer to the Arctic Circle than the American border.” He grew up as part of a lively, large single-parent family.

    At nineteen, he joined the youth volunteer program Katimavik, which paid “a dollar a day and all the granola we could eat.” With Katimavik, Will worked at a museum in Kelowna, BC, at a nursing home in southern Ontario and at a conservation park in St. Canut, Quebec. (Will's travels with Katimavik are retold in his memoir I Was a Teenage Katima–victim!.)

    After Katimavik, Will lived in Quebec City, and the following summer he joined Canada World Youth, an overseas exchange program between Canada and the developing world. Will's tour of duty with CWY (1985–86) took him first to New Liskeard, Ontario and then to Ecuador in South America. In New Liskeard, Will worked at an agricultural college where his duties included shovelling manure, herding sheep and — on occasio