The Archives of Harry Thurston : A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-691Fonds-level description created and electronic version prepared by Laurena Fredette, August 2006
Collection Level Description
Title: Harry Thurston fonds
Dates: 1976-1981
Extent: 70 cm of textual records
Harry Kenneth Thurston was born 3 March 1950 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Kenneth Alvin and Elizabeth Madeline (Gillis). In 1971 he graduated from Acadia University with a B.Sc. in Biology. Thurston married Catherine Rideout the following year; they have one daughter, Megan Ruth.
Thurston began a diverse literary career in 1977. He is an avid naturalist whose works often concern nature and environmental issues. He has been a freelance writer, editor, poet, and playwright whose work has appeared in over thirty main stream magazines, literary periodicals, and anthologies, including The Dalhousie Review, Fiddlehead, Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, The Atlantic Anthology: vol. 2 Poetry, and We Belong to the Sea, a Nova Scotia Anthology. He has also been a field correspondent and contributing editor to Equinox (1982-1999); a writer-in-residence at Acadia and St. Mary’s; a visiting writer at Mount Allison; and has taught at the University of King’s College School of Journalism. From 1977 to 1981 he edited and published Germination, a quarterly poetry periodical.
To date, Thurston is also the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose. He has been awarded various literary awards and honours including the Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award 2005; the Evelyn Richardson memorial Literary Award (1991, 1997, 2004); the City of Dartmouth Book Award (1994); and the Atlantic Bookseller’s Choice Award (1991). His magazine published works have also garnered him the Author’s Award (1982, 1987); the National Magazine Award (1983); and the Canadian Science Writer’s Association Science and Society Award (1986, 1987).
Thurston continues to reside in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
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Lumley, Elizabeth, ed.Canadian Who’s Who. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
“Harry Thurston.”
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. 2005. Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. 21 June 2006 <http://www.writers.ns.ca/Writers/hthurston.html>.
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Fonds donated to the archives by Harry Thurston in 1995 and 1996.
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This fonds consists of materials related to the publication of the poetry periodical Germination. It includes manuscripts and proofs, editorial drafts, correspondence, sales and business records, and promotional materials.
Finding aid available onsite.
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[Identification of item], Harry Thurston fonds, MS-2-691, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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