Two well-known Canadian authors will be at West Ferris Secondary School on Saturday.
Waubgeshig Rice and Adam Shoalts will be here for the Canadian Ecology Centre’s ninth annual Earth Day Book Talk.
Officials say the event will celebrate storytelling, nature and resilience. It’s also a fundraiser for the centre after the devastating storm last June.
For ticket information, visit the Ecology Centre’s website.
Rice is an Anishinaabe author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay, near Parry Sound.
After spending nearly two decades with the CBC as a video journalist, web writer, producer, and radio host, he left in 2020 to focus on writing.
Notable works include the award-winning short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge (2011), novels Legacy (2014) and the bestseller Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018), and its sequel Moon of the Turning Leaves (2024).
He’s also an honourary degree recipient at Nipissing University.
Shoalts, described by the Toronto Star as ‘Canada’s Indiana Jones’ is an explorer, historian, archaeologist, and bestselling author raised near Fenwick, Ontario, with a lifelong passion for wilderness and nature.
Known for epic solo journeys like a 4,000 km Arctic expedition, he has authored books such as Beyond the Trees, Alone Against the North, and A History of Canada in Ten Maps, and serves as Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
