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Mowat died Tuesday night in his hometown of Port Hope, Ont., his assistant Mary Shaw-Rimmington told The Canadian Press. “He was possessed of a ferocious talent, able to write stories that provoked laughter, tears and action,” Green Party leader Elizabeth May added in a statement after news broke of Mowat’s death at age 92. TORONTO - Farley Mowat was fondly remembered Wednesday for captivating generations of schoolchildren with books such as “Owls in the Family” and “Never Cry Wolf,” and for his legacy as a tireless defender of the environment who “spoke for whales and seabirds, for tadpoles and mosses.” = Farley Mowat, dead at 92, remembered for ‘enormous literary legacy’īy Allison Jones and Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press Thank you Farley for your kindness, your genius, your activism, and your caring spirit! The world won’t be the same without you! May the wolves surround and protect you. He was iconic, an environmentalist and wolf advocate who changed the way wolves were perceived by the world. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship RV Farley Mowat was named in honour of him, and he frequently visited it to assist its mission.Farley Mowat is dead at age 92 and he will be sorely missed. This book made Mowat into a literary celebrity and 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. His outrage led him to publish his first novel, People of the Deer (1952).

During a field trip to the Arctic, Mowat became outraged at the plight of the Ihalmiut, a Caribou Inuit band, which he attributed to misunderstanding by whites. Mowat studied biology at the University of Toronto. His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books. Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his war service, and his work as a naturalist. This book made Mowat into a literary celebrity and was largely responsible for the shift in the Canadian government's Inuit policy: the government began shipping meat an Farley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.

Farley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.