Sid Marty
{{short description|Canadian writer (born 1944)}}
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Sid Marty (born 1944) is a Canadian writer.{{cite news|last=Gloin|first=Doug|title=Under the spell of the Great Chinook, Sid Marty writes of his passion for Alberta|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=12 January 1997}}{{cite news|title=Bear tale is a perfect storm of drama|url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=14ae0181-e1c1-4674-b920-9b8e476949b0|accessdate=5 March 2012|newspaper=The Gazette (Montreal)|date=23 October 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090006/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=14ae0181-e1c1-4674-b920-9b8e476949b0|archivedate=4 March 2016}} Marty has written five non-fiction books and five poetry books, and also is a singer.{{cite news|last=McGoogan|first=Kenneth|title=Another Side of Sid Marty|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YQllAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oX4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1472,3048979|accessdate=9 February 2011|newspaper=The Calgary Herald|date=3 February 1983}} Many of his books reflect the time he spent as a park warden for Parks Canada between 1966 and 1978 in Yoho, Jasper, Prince Albert and Banff national parks.{{cite news|last=Loran|first=Tom|title=Park Warden Turns Writer|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=25VjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=anoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3788,2961901|accessdate=5 March 2012|newspaper=The StarPhoenix|date=26 April 1978}}{{cite news |last1=Marty |first1=Sid |title=Requiem for a Mountain Sanctuary |url=https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/03/28/Requiem-Mountain-Sanctuary/ |access-date=29 March 2022 |publisher=The Tyee |date=28 March 2022}} Marty grew up in Medicine Hat and Calgary, and now lives in Pincher Creek. He received an undergraduate degree from Sir George Williams University.{{cite web|last=Bergman|first=Brian|title=Born to Be High and Wild|url=http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20030623_61348_61348|work=Maclean's|accessdate=5 January 2011}} 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 Banff Mountain Book Festival in 2008.
Works
- 1973: Headwaters (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. {{ISBN|978-0771058141}}
- 1978: Men for the Mountains, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 320 pages. {{ISBN|978-0771056727}}
- 1981: Nobody Danced With Miss Rodeo (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 108 pages. {{ISBN|978-0771058615}}
- 1985: A Grand and Fabulous Notion: The first century of Canada's parks, Toronto: NC Press, 156 pages. {{ISBN|978-0920053072}}
- 1995: Leaning on the Wind: Under the spell of the great Chinook, Toronto: Harper-Collins, 352 pages. {{ISBN|978-1894974622}}
- 1999: Sky Humour (poetry), Windsor: Black Moss, 102 pages. {{ISBN|978-0887533310}}
- 1999: Switchbacks: true stories of the Canadian Rockies, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 336 pages. {{ISBN|978-0771056703}}
- 2008: The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 296 pages. {{ISBN|978-0771056987}}
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