Category: Writer Local to Kawartha Lakes

Jules Sobrian

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Jules Sobrian (born January 22, 1935 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago), is a medical doctor, competitive marksman and author, who immigrated to Canada at the age of 21 and resides in Omemee, Ontario. (from Wikipedia)

About the Book:
It is 1856 and Dr. Forsyth’s ambition is to save lives on the Canadian frontier. Fresh from medical school, and accompanied by Kitty, his beautiful bride and nurse, he sets up practice in a scenic village not far from an Indian nation. There he finds himself in competition with the reeve, who not only invents and sells cures for all known human and animal diseases, but exercises some mysterious control over the village council.

Much to his dismay, the public views the doctor’s every success as failure. One by one he inadvertently makes enemies among the local gentry.
When the reeve’s terrible secret is revealed Dr. Forsyth’s dream becomes his worst nightmare.
Kitty is betrayed by the law. Salvation comes from unexpected places, and she discovers that frontier justice is best served by Samuel Colt’s new invention.

White Lily

 

Dorothy Lenore Thompson

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Dorothy Lenore Scovell was born in Toronto in 1941, the youngest of six. She attended teachers’ college, following her passion for inspiring young minds. She was a kindergarten teacher for the Toronto District School Board, a Sunday school director at her church, and at night, she taught English to new Canadians.

In 1965, Dorothy married Richard Thompson at Bedford Park United Church. They had two children.

They moved to their dream home in Lindsay in 1997 and became active members of Queen Street United Church.

In 2013, Dorothy published her book Threads from the Loom of Time, a non-fiction account of her family’s history and pioneer life in Canada. The book is connected to The Muskoka Story, written by her mother, Beatrice Scovell.

Dorothy and Richard moved into long-term care in Oshawa in 2017.

Dorothy passed away September 25, 2020.

Books:

Threads from the Loom of Time

Further Reading:

“An Evening with Dorothy Thompson.” (May 2013)

“Weaving a wonderful tale out of a family’s legacy.” Catherine Whitnall. Kawartha Lakes This Week. 17 May 2013.

Dorothy Lenore Thompson obituary

Richard Thompson obituary

Virginia Winters

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Virginia Winters was a long-time paediatrician in Lindsay. Now retired, she is the author of a series of suspense novels with a genealogy bent called Dangerous Journeys. The books take retired doctor, Anne McPhail, to various locations in Haliburton. The latest is nuber 6 in the series, The Ice Storm Murders.

Dr. Winters graduated in medicine from Queen’s University in 1971.

In 2017, she began a new series, featuring a new protagonist, art conservationist Sarah Downing, art conservationist. The first book, Painting of Sorrow, published May 15, 2017.

A collection of her short stories is available in A Superior Crime and other stories, published February 2018.

Virginia blogs about writing, travel, genealogy, current events and gardening at http://ginny200.com. She also posts book reviews, and some of her photography at http://www.virginiawinters.ca

Virginia lives in Lindsay, Ontario with her husband George, a retired internist, and standard poodle Cully.

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