Sid Marty (born 1944) is a Canadian writer. Marty has written five non-fiction books and five poetry books, and also is a singer. Many of his books reflect the time he spent as a park warden for

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between 1966 and 1978 in Yoho,

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and Banff national parks. Marty grew up in

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and

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, and now lives in

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. He received an undergraduate degree from

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. His three poetry collections are ''Headwaters,'' ''Nobody Danced with Miss Rodeo'' and ''Sky Humour''; ''The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek'' won the Grand Prize of the

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in 2008.

Works

* 1973: ''Headwaters'' (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. * 1978: ''Men for the Mountains'', Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 320 pages. * 1981: ''Nobody Danced With Miss Rodeo'' (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 108 pages. * 1985: ''A Grand and Fabulous Notion: The first century of Canada's parks,'' Toronto: NC Press, 156 pages. * 1995: ''Leaning on the Wind: Under the spell of the great Chinook,'' Toronto: Harper-Collins, 352 pages. * 1999: ''Sky Humour'' (poetry), Windsor: Black Moss, 102 pages. * 1999: ''Switchbacks: true stories of the Canadian Rockies,'' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 336 pages. * 2008: ''The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek,'' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 296 pages.

References

Living people 1944 births People from Medicine Hat Writers from Calgary Sir George Williams University alumni {{Canada-nonfiction-writer-stub