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.

Books:

J. Stephen Thompson

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J. Stephen Thompson is a retired public health microbiologist, born in Toronto, raised in Parry Sound, Ontario, and now living with his wife in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario at the edge of the Carden Plain.

His science background continues to inform his writing. He published more than three dozen papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Lincoln Cathedral is his second novel. His first novel, The Aftermath, was researched while working in post-war Kosova.

Following his father’s death in 2003 he published a book of his father’s photography, Reflections Through a Special Lens and republished his father’s short World War II memoir, Bomber Crew.

Thompson coauthored several collective projects with other local writers, Tales from the Raven Café, a collaborative novel, and The Kawartha Soul Project, The Kawartha Imagination Project, story anthologies with Canadian Authors – Peterborough, and contributed to Kawartha Lakes Stories: Autumn. A short story, Aubergine, was published in the on-line magazine overtheredline.com in 2013.

Website:

www.jstephenthompson.ca