Rosemary Neering

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Rosemary Neering (* 1945 in Croydon , Surrey , England ) is an English-born Canadian writer and journalist who has primarily published non-fiction and has received the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (1992) and the Vancouver City Book Award (2001) won two prestigious literary prizes .

Life

Rosemary Neering was born in Croydon, Surrey, England in 1945 and came to Canada with her parents on July 1, 1947, at the age of two. After completing school, she worked as a reporter for various daily newspapers and periodicals such as British Columbia Magazine , Canada's History Magazine and Western Living in the 1960s , which brought her to British Columbia in September 1965 . From 1975 to 1979 she was an editor for Beautiful British Columbia magazine . Shortly before, she had published her first book in 1973. Since then she has published around forty titles on historical, biographical and social topics, historical hiking guides, as well as numerous non-fiction and school books on geographical and historical topics for children and young people. Most of the latter titles in particular have been translated into French .

Since 1981 she has been working almost exclusively as a freelance writer. From 1991 to 1992 she was president of the Periodical Writers Association of Canada and from 1999 to 2001 she was a board member of CanCopy (Access Copyright).

After having in the past usually biographies about courageous and unconventional women ( Emily Carr . 1977), politicians like William Andrew Cecil Bennett (1981) or explorers like the explorer Alexander Mackenzie , the cartographer David Thompson , the entrepreneur Simon Fraser , George Vancouver and James Cook ( In the Path of the Explorers: Tracing the Expeditions of Vancouver, Cook, Mackenzie, Fraser and Thompson. 1992), she wrote with Marilyn McCrimmon in Facing Changes, Finding Freedom: Canadian Women at Midlife ( 1996) anticipates the social problems of divorced or widowed wives in middle age on the labor market. In her work, The Canadian Housewife: An Affecionate History (2005), she paid more attention to the previously neglected field of study of the historical and social significance of the Canadian housewife . She rounded off this series of women-specific topics with the award-winning collection of Canadian pioneer women up to 1900, Wild West Women: Travelers, Adventurers and Rebels (2001). In her last book, The Pig War. The last Canada-US border conflict (2011) described the last US-Canadian border conflict when, on May 15, 1859, an American settler shot and killed a pig belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company on San Juan Island .

In 1991/92 she completed a year as a visiting professor at the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Victoria .

1989 she stood with Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph on the shortlist of the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award . With Down the Road she was able to win the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1992 . With Wild West Woman she was nominated for both the Hubert Evans Fiction Prize and the Bill Duthie BC Booksellers' Choice Award, which is also part of the BC Book Prizes , but at least won the competition for the VanCity Book Award.

Rosemary Neering lives in Victoria with her husband Joe Thompson and their cat .

plant

  • Daniel R. Birch , Rosemary Neering: Life in early North America. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Don Mills, Ontario 1973.
  • Daniel R. Birch, Rosemary Neering, Arlene Birch : Growth of a nation: teacher's manual to accompany Growth of a nation discussion picture cards. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1974, ISBN 0-88902-157-0 .
  • Gold rush. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1974, ISBN 0-88902-175-9 . (Text book for primary school lessons)
  • For trade. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1974, ISBN 0-88902-179-1 . (Text book for primary school lessons)
  • Building of the railway. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1974, ISBN 0-88902-177-5 .
  • North-West Mounted Police. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1974, ISBN 0-88902-176-7 .
  • Rosemary Neering, Daniel R. Birch : Settlement of the West. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1974, ISBN 0-88902-178-3 .
  • Emily Carr. The Canadians series (Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd.): WAC, Don Mills, Ontario 1975, ISBN 0-88902-207-0 .
  • Life in Acadia. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1976, ISBN 0-88902-180-5 .
  • Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod : Life of the loyalists. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1975, ISBN 0-88902-182-1 . (Children's and youth books)
  • Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod : Life in New France. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 1976, ISBN 0-88902-181-3 . (Children's and youth books)
  • Louis Riel. The Canadians series (Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd.): WAC, Don Mills, Ontario 1977, ISBN 0-88902-214-3 .
  • In the pioneer home. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1978, ISBN 0-88902-187-2 .
  • Stan Garrod , Fred McFadden , Rosemary Neering: Canada: growth of a nation. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1980, ISBN 0-88902-199-6 . (History book for teenagers)
  • WAC Bennett. The Canadians series (Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd.): WAC, Don Mills, Ontario 1981, ISBN 0-88902-682-3 .
  • Rosemary Neering, Margaret MacDonald : Cariboo trails. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1983, ISBN 0-88902-614-9 . (Text book for primary schools)
  • Rosemary Neering, Margaret MacDonald: Prairie horizons. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1983, ISBN 0-88902-613-0 . (Text book for primary schools)
  • Winners and losers, gamblers all: memories of British Columbia. Oxford University Press, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-19-540465-3 .
  • The Glendale Lodge Society, 1970-1982: a history of the society and of the institutions under its stewardship. Glendale Lodge Society, Victoria BC 1984.
  • Capital tale. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-88902-610-6 . (Textbook for primary school)
  • Rosemary Neering, Margaret MacDonald, Murray Lamb : Montreal adventure. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-88902-612-2 .
  • The depression. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-88902-189-9 .
  • The San Juan Islands. (Photos: Michael Breuer) Skyline Press, Toronto 1985, ISBN 0-19-540628-1 . (Illustrated book)
  • Government. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto 1985, ISBN 0-88902-194-5 . (School book)
  • Energy , Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Ontario 1985, ISBN 0-88902-195-3 . (School book)
  • Rosemary Neering, Saeko Usukawa , Wilma Wood : Exploring our world: other people, other lands. Douglas & McIntyre (Educational), Vancouver 1986, ISBN 0-88894-873-5 .
  • Rosemary Neering, Peter Grant: Other places, other times. Gage Educational Pub. Co., Toronto 1986, ISBN 0-7715-8163-7 .
  • Historic Alberta. (Photos: Michael Breuer). Oxford University Press, Toronto 1986, ISBN 0-19-540563-3 .
  • Rosemary Neering, Saeko Usukawa, Robert V Kubicek : Exploring world cultures. Douglas & McIntyre (Educational), Vancouver 1988, ISBN 0-920841-21-X . (Textbook for lower and intermediate levels)
  • The story of the University of Victoria and its origin in Victoria College. University of Victoria, Victoria BC 1988, ISBN 0-920313-82-5 .
  • Desmond Morton , Rosemary Neering: Towards tomorrow: Canada in a changing world: history. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Toronto 1988, ISBN 0-7747-1281-3 . (Textbook for high schools)
  • Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph. Horsdal and Schubart Publishers Ltd., Ganges BC 1989, ISBN 0-920663-07-9 .
  • The Coast of British Columbia. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1989. (with Bob Herger , Photography) ISBN 0-88240-370-2 .
  • Pioneers. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Ontario 1990, ISBN 0-88902-369-7 . (Youth book)
  • Down the Road: Journeys through Small-Town British Columbia. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1991, ISBN 1-895099-94-3 .
  • In the Path of the Explorers: Tracing the Expeditions of Vancouver, Cook, Mackenzie, Fraser and Thompson. Whitecap Books, Vancouver BC 1992. (Together with Steve Short) ISBN 1-55110-018-5 .
  • A Traveller's Guide to Historic British Columbia. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1993. (2nd ed. 2002, ISBN 1-55285-332-2 ).
  • Beautiful British Columbia Victoria. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1994, ISBN 0-920431-22-4 .
  • British Columbia. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1994, ISBN 1-55110-165-3 .
  • The Vancouver walking guides: East Side. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1994, ISBN 1-55110-143-2 .
  • The Vancouver walking Guides: West End. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1994, ISBN 1-55110-142-4 .
  • The Vancouver walking guides: the waterfront. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1994, ISBN 1-55110-144-0 .
  • The Victoria walking guide: Old town, Chinatown, the waterfront, James Bay. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1994, ISBN 1-55110-171-8 .
  • Vancouver to Victoria: souvenir guide. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1995, ISBN 0-920431-27-5 .
  • Faces of British Columbia: Looking at the Past 1860-1960. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1995. (with Joe Thompson) ISBN 1-55110-377-X .
  • Backroading Vancouver Island. Whitecap Books, Vancouver BC 1996, ISBN 1-55110-401-6 .
  • Facing Changes, Finding Freedom: Canadian Women at Midlife. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 1996 (co-author with Marilyn McCrimmon) ISBN 0-88902-180-5 .
  • Rosemary Neering, Bruce Obee : Over Canada: An Aerial Adventure. Over Canada, Productions / Beautiful British Columbia, 1999 (Photos: Russ Heinl) ISBN 0-920431-87-9 .
  • Vancouver Island from the air. (Photos: Russ Heinl) Whitecap Books, Vancouver / New York 1999, ISBN 1-55110-957-3 .
  • Wild West Women: Travelers, Adventurers and Rebels. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 2000, ISBN 1-55285-013-7 .
  • The New Victoria Walking Guide. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 2001, ISBN 1-55285-184-2 .
  • Eating Up Vancouver Island. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC 2003, ISBN 1-55285-453-1 .
  • The Canadian Housewife: An Affecionate History. Whitecap, Vancouver, BC 2005, ISBN 1-55285-717-4 .
  • Opening the west. Nelson, Toronto 2006, ISBN 978-0-17-633656-1 . (Youth book)
  • Government House: The Ceremonial Home of All British Columbians. Photographs: Tony Owen, Sono Nis 2007, ISBN 978-1-55039-159-6 .
  • British Columbia bizarre. Stories, whimsies, facts and a few outright lies from Canada's wacky West Coast. TouchWood Editions, Victoria BC 2011, ISBN 978-1-926741-25-3 .
  • Smugglers of the West. Heritage House, Surrey BC 2011, ISBN 978-1-926936-91-8 .
  • The Pig War. The last Canada-US border conflict. Heritage House, Surrey BC 2011, ISBN 978-1-926936-01-7
Audio books
  • Wild West women. Speaker: Barbara Karmazyn, Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia, 6 audio cassettes, 455 min, 2002.

Awards and nominations

literature

  • Jill Wade, "Looking at Pictures: A Review Essay": Underlying Vibrations: The Photography and Life of John Vanderpant by Sheryl Salloum; Faces of British Columbia: Looking at the Past, 1860-1960 by Rosemary Neering; Flapjacks and Photographs: The Life Story of the Famous Camp Cook and Photographer Mattie Gunterman by Henri Robideau. (Collective review) In: BC Studies . No. 111, Fall 1996, pp. 105-112.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/1992#non-fiction
  2. ↑ a b Short portrait of Rosemary Neering. On: www.touchwoodeditions.com. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d Author portrait and review summary of Rosemary Neering . On: www.abcbookworld.com. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  4. ^ Connie Brim: Tale-Telling Women and Telling Tales of Women. (Collective review) Wild West Women: Travelers, Adventurers and Rebels by Rosemary Neering. Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900 by Jo Fraser Jones. Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne. The Judge's Wife: Memoirs of a British Columbia Pioneer by Eunice ML Harrison. In: BC Studies. 136, winter 2002/2003.
  5. ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2001#non-fiction
  6. ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2001#bookseller
  7. ↑ Logan Hovis: Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph by Rosemary Neering. In: BC Studies. No. 86, Sommer 1990, pp. 84-86.
personal data
SURNAME Neering, Rosemary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Croydon , Surrey , England