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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada  The grandson of English and German homesteaders, Dave was born and raised in Melfort, Saskatchewan. Dave joined the army upon graduation from high school, graduating from the Royal Military College in Kingston with a BA(Commerce). He served in Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, and Norway. Married to Stella, they left the army and settled in Calgary where Dave studied accountancy, became a CGA and worked in public practice. They subsequently moved to Moose Jaw where Dave still instructs accountancy at SIAST. Dave and Stella have two children (grown and graduated now), and a beagle. An enthusiastic amateur historian, Dave wrote two YA novels of historical fiction set in the Riel Rebellion of 1885. The second one, The Lady at Batoche won the Saskatchewan Book Award for YA fiction. In a natural progression he was drawn to the next “phase” of Saskatchewan history, the homesteading saga. He remembers his grandparents referring to England and Russia as the “old country” - yet when they arrived here as young men and women, England and Russia must have been “home”. Dave’s latest novel, The Plough’s Share, is in part an exploration of when the homesteaders stopped calling Europe home, and started calling Saskatchewan home. He likes to touch his historical research so he drives and photographs the old trails and battlefields and hunts with a muzzle loading buffalo rifle. |
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