Talk:Farley Mowat
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[edit] Order of Canada
Does the Order of Canada really needs its own section? --Ducio1234 (talk) 02:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Farley was more interested in the truth than the facts. -- I rather wish he was a little more interested in the facts since, as later research shows, they're more friend than enemy to the truth. Nonetheless the good he has done is enormous. Especially if you're a Wolf!
Farley has done what most of us wish we had done with our lives, I salute you Farley for everything you have given us. Thank you
Farley Mowat used to live in the top of my library! (Belleville)
[edit] Army Rank
Would the person who keeps adding in that FM was a Major at the conclusion of WWII kindly provide some sort of citation? In spite of being a lifelong FM fan, I have never heard he was a Major although I know that was the rank his father achieved. If he had a temporary field commission as a Major, then that is how the rank shoudl be described, not "having briefly served in the rank of major", as this implies that he was subjected to a demotion as some form of military discipline - also something I have been unable to find any evidence of.--CokeBear 12:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ortona
I am a little puzzled by your edits - first of all you said you made something make more sense when in fact you turned it COMPLETELY incoherent. Second of all, spending Christmas Day weeping does not state that you spent the entire 24 hours non-stop weeping. Your edits were nonsensical and your reasoning ridiculous.--CokeBear 12:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Your sentence read "During the Moro River campaign, he suffered from battle stress, heightened after spending one Christmas Day in Ortona, Italy weeping at the feet of an unconscious friend who had an enemy bullet in his head." "One" seems ambiguous and makes the sentence awkward; so I removed it. You also had the location wrong, which needed to be changed. You haven't changed it back so the edit must have been worthwhile. *shrugs* If they're so non-sensical and ridiculous, feel free to change them back. You may want to look up the rules on Wikipedia etiquette as well as good faith; I find your last sentence needlessly confrontational and abusive.Michael Dorosh 13:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Well there you have it - the life of another fearless, honest activist exposing the pathetic attitudes of Reagan, Bush, and all their ilk - what hope has the world got if nations like the US vote in people like that?
Farley honest? Did you read the criticism section of this article?
[edit] People of the Deer
I would not take issue with the fact that People of the Deer (1952) made Mowat into a literary celebrity. However, I have doubts that his novelistic account of Inuit life in the Kivaliq was "largely responsible for the shift in the Canadian government's Inuit policy: the government began shipping meat and dry goods to a people they previously denied existed." Not true. This shift was underway before the publication of Mowat's novel. Can someone at least cite a source for this claim about People of the Deer, and its effects on arctic administration?
His book contributed to the shift, but was not "largely responsible" for it. That shift was already well underway. By the late 1940s, the former HBC trader James Cantley had distributed a memo to the Federal Government informing them of the declining fur industry and the potential problems facing Inuit. By May 1952, the "Eskimo Affairs Committee" started meeting to solve the "Eskimo problem" as it was called. See: 1952. “NAC RG22, volume 254, file 40-8-1, volume 2 (1949-1952), “The Future of the Canadian Eskimo”, 15 May 1952, p. 1. RCAP”. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.239.199.148 (talk) 00:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Correcting book title -- West Viking to Westviking
The title of Mowat's 1965 book was given as West Viking. I've changed it to read Westviking, as it's printed on and in my own copy. Cactus Wren 08:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
142.68.252.236 01:24, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Years in Newfoundland
I have just finished reading Claire Mowat's 'The Outport People' (1983), an autobiographical account of their stay in Burgeo (called 'Baleena' in her book). She states clearly that they lived there 5 years and not 8 as the article states.
How about supplying personal details? Farley Mowat has been married to Claire Mowat for at least 45 years! He also had a family before marrying Claire.
142.68.252.236 01:24, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
