Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Canada
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Farley Mowat 🇨🇦

Farley McGill Mowat (Known as "Farley Mowat")
Environmentalist Author, Storyteller, Author of Never Cry Wolf and The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Born May 12, 1921 🇨🇦 Belleville (Ontario), Canada
Passed Away May 06, 2014 Port Hope (Ontario), Canada
Lifespan 92 years old
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"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly have made it."

Archival Overview

Passionate environmentalist and crusading author whose forty-four books, including People of the Deer and Never Cry Wolf, sold twenty-five million copies worldwide and revolutionized wolf conservation.

Biographical Record

A decorated veteran of the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy in WWII, Mowat was sent to the subarctic Keewatin region in 1947 to study caribou. Outraged by the starvation of the Ihalmiut Inuit, he published People of the Deer (1952), exposing governmental neglect.

In Never Cry Wolf (1963), based on his solitary Arctic field research, Mowat dismantled the myth of wolves as savage killers, showing they primarily culled sick caribou and ate mice. Adapted into an acclaimed Disney film, Mowat's books were translated into fifty-two languages, inspiring modern wildlife preservation.

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Final Resting Place

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St. Mark's Cemetery
Port Hope (Ontario), Canada
GPS: 43.9500, -78.3000
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