Dr. Alex MacDonald was Associate Professor of English at Campion College, University of Regina, until his retirement on June 30, 2023.
Norman MacKenzie was born in Sarnia, Ontario on January 7, 1869, and died in Regina, Saskatchewan on January 2, 1936. His parents were John Alexander MacKenzie and Helen (Crawford) MacKenzie. He married Clara Erma McMorran, daughter of Harry McMorran, of Port Huron, Michigan, in 1909. They had no children. He moved to Regina in 1891 and lived there until his death. He was educated at various private schools in Ontario and at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He graduated from Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and read law with Charles Millar of Toronto before being called to the Ontario bar in 1891, the same year that he enrolled as a barrister in the Northwest Territories. He had a law practice in Regina in partnership with George W. Brown. Later he was senior partner of the law firm of MacKenzie, Thom, Bastedo, Ward and McDougall. He was made King’s Council (K.C.) in 1907 and became official solicitor for Saskatchewan and Alberta the same year. He was Public Administrator in the Northwest Territories (later Saskatchewan) from 1898 to 1910 and was official guardian in the Territories (and later Saskatchewan) from 1898 – 1929. He was also a dedicated collector of art. His personal collection was valued at $100.000 (Cdn) at the time of his death. It included painting, etchings and similar works by both local and international artists, as well as archaeological specimens such as Babylonian and Assyrian clay tablets, which be bequeathed to the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College. He was at various times a director of the Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation, and of the National Art Gallery, Chairman of the Saskatchewan Boxing Commission, Director of the Regina Flying Club, member of the Board of Governors of Regina College, director of the Regina Agricultural Exhibition Association, on the executive of the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League, President of the Saskatchewan Art Association, a founding member of the Antipaw Shooting Club in the Qu’Appelle Valley and a bencher of the Law Society from its founding in 1898 to 1919 (and its first secretary).
Grace Maguire was born in Govan, Saskatchewan in 1908. She attended Regina College in 1925 and went on to teach school in several small town schools in Saskatchewan. She married in 1928 and lived in Winnipeg until her death in 1977.
Eric Malling was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, on September 4, 1946. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, and went on to the School of Journalism at Carleton University. After graduation, he worked for the Swift Current Sun and the Regina Leader-Post. In 1968 he began work for the Toronto Star and in 1974, he started doing interviews on Canada AM for CTV. Malling joined CBCs The Fifth Estate in 1976, hosting it for 14 years. In 1990 he joined W5 at CTV. This program was renamed W5 With Eric Malling. Malling won one Gemini Award and six ACTRA awards. He is the only person to have won the Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism three times.
Eric Malling died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Toronto on September 28, 1998.
Dave Margoshes was born in the United States and attended school in New York City and in New Jersey. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.
He worked in newspapers in several American cities before immigrating to Canada in the 1970s; subsequently, he worked on newspapers in Vancouver and Calgary and taught journalism at Calgary's Mount Royal College and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Since moving to Saskatchewan in 1986, he's been writer-in-residence in Winnipeg (1995-96) and Saskatoon (2001-02), taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Regina, and has given readings and writing workshops across the country.
Margoshes is the author of two novels, Drowning Man and I'm Frankie Sterne; a novella, We Who Seek: A Love Story; five short story collections, Fables of Creation, Long Distance Calls, Nine Lives, Small Regrets, and Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories, which was a double winner at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year. He has four collections of poetry: The Horse Knows the Way, Purity of Absence, Northwest Passages, and Walking at Brighton; he is also the author of a biography, Tommy Douglas: Building the New Society, and of a junior high school resource book, used in both Canadian and American schools.
Dave Margoshes' stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and have been broadcast on CBC.
Margoshes has been very active in the writing community in both Saskatchewan and nationally. He received the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Volunteer Award in 2000 for, among other things, helping to organize the Saskatchewan Book Awards (he was the first chairman for this event). He's won several awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Stephen Leacok Poetry Award.
Dave Margoshes currently lives in Regina.