CONTRIBUTORS

Charlotte Gray, CM, wrote “Reconsidering the Gold Rush.” She is the author of eleven non-fiction bestsellers of Canadian history and biography, including Sisters in the Wilderness, The Promise of Canada, and Murdered Midas. A former chair of Canada’s National History Society and winner of the Pierre Berton Award, she recently won a Library and Archives Foundation Scholar Award. Gray lives in Ottawa and is an adjunct professor of history at Carleton University.

Alan MacEachern is the author of “The Rainmaker.” He is a professor of history at Western University and, in 2020-21, the L.M. Montgomery Institute Visiting Scholar at the University of Prince Edward Island. He teaches and researches the environmental and climate history of Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press recently published his The Miramichi Fire: A History and will soon publish his and Edward MacDonald’s The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island.

Nancy Payne is the author of “Creature Comforters.” Growing up on a farm in central Ontario, Payne had a succession of sickly barn cats as pets, mostly named Tiger or Rascal. She now has a perfectly healthy cat named Nellie after a certain complicated Canadian suffragist. Payne is a contributing editor to this magazine and the editor of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids, which is also published by Canada’s National History Society.

Ry Moran, Red River Métis, wrote “De-naming British Columbia.” Moran is the associate university librarian–reconciliation at the University of Victoria and was the founding director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. Prior to this, he served with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada as director of statement gathering and of the National Research Centre. He is deeply passionate about truth, reconciliation, and the integrity of the historical record.