Louise Abbott

Louise Abbott is a Canadian non-fiction writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Quebec's Eastern Townships. She graduated from McGill University in 1972,[1] and is a writer and photographer, with work having appeared in: the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Heritage and Photo Life.[2]

Awards

Abbott received the 2002 Canadian Journalism Foundation Greg Clark Internship Award,[3] and in the same year the Professional Writers Association of Canada's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism.[4] Her first book, The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence, was a finalist for the 1989 QSPELL Award (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature, now the Quebec Writers' Federation).[5]

In 2014, her documentary, Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story, won the inaugural Jasper Short Film Festival Best Film by an Established Filmmaker award.[6]

Works

Books
  • The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988)
  • The French Shore
  • A Country So Wild and Grand
  • The Heart of the Farm
  • Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree/Terre des Cris (COTA, 2010)[1]
  • Memphrémagog: An Illustrated History (volume 1)

Films
  • The Pinnacle and the Poet
  • Alexander Walbridge: The Visionary of Mystic
  • Giving Shelter
  • Crisscrossing Space and Time
  • A Journey to Remember
  • Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story

References
  1. Curran, Peggy (24 November 2010). "McGill alums Louise Abbott, Niels Jensen and tales of the Cree". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  2. Holmes, Gillian (1999). Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999–2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 4. ISBN 0-920966-55-1.
  3. Greg Clark. "Louise Abbott – 2002 Award Recipient". The Canadian Journalism Foundation. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  4. "Member Profiles". The Writer's Union of Canada. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  5. "Member Profile". The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  6. Chloë bellande. "Jasper Short Film Festival reviewed". Montreal Times. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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