Haig-Brown Writer in Residence Open House

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Sunday, December 1st, 2013
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

An open house reception for the 2013/2014 Writer in Residence is being held at the Haig-Brown Heritage House on Sunday, December 1 from 1:00p.m. to 3:00p.m. Take this opportunity to welcome author Andrew Nikiforuk, this year�s writer, who will be staying at the House from December to April.

For more than two decades Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications. He has won seven National Magazine Awards since 1989 and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists.

His book The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, published by Greystone Books, was a national bestseller and won the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. It was also listed as a finalist for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.

Nikiforuk is a skilled teacher and public speaker whose personal interests are an excellent fit with the programming mandate at the Haig-Brown House, which he noted in his application letter to the Haig-Brown House Writer in Residence program:

�Given the focus of this work (how Canadians use and abuse their resource wealth), I feel that I can enrich this residency and honour the great Haig-Brown legacy.�

While he is here, he will participate in Museum programming and be available to help writers with their manuscripts. Andrew Nikiforuk�s residency is made possible through assistance from Canada Council for the Arts.

The Haig-Brown House is located at 2250 Campbell River Rd.
Call the Museum 250-287-3103 for details.