(Historic) Don Hunter
In 1972, Don Hunter co-wrote Swiss-born René Dahinden's summary of his 20 year's research into the humanoid Sasquatch creature for Sasquatch/Bigfoot. René Dahinden's search for evidence of the Sasquatch has been continued by a science teacher in Oregon, Thom Powell, who published The Locals: A Contemporary Investigation of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch Phenomenon (Hancock, 2003). Other 'Sasquatch' authors from same publishing house include Dr. Grover S. Krantz, Thomas Steenburg, Robert Alley, John's Green, Christopher L. Murphy and Dmitri Bayanov.
For his other book, Don Hunter compiled his fictional columns in The Province about life in a Gulf Islands community for Spinner's Inlet. Hunter has also scripted most of the 1986 CBC Television movie "9B" and the network drama mini-series "9B" of January/February 1989 (five one-hour shows) based on an original story concerning a year teaching in B.C.'s north country. He grew up near the English Lake District, did his two-years national service in the British Army's 16th Independent Parachute Brigade, and taught high school in England and in British Columbia before joining the Vancouver Province newspaper as a reporter and feature writer and eventually senior columnist. He has contributed to dozens of magazines including Maclean's and Reader's Digest. He has his teacher's certificate from UBC and he has served as President of Local 115 The Newspaper Guild (1976-1977). He and his wife June have two daughters and live in Fort Langley, B.C.
CITY/TOWN: Fort Langley
DATE OF BIRTH: October 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH: Asby, Cumbria, England
ARRIVAL IN CANADA: August 7 1961
ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: Coal miners.
EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: Teacher (B.Ed. UBC). Cab driver. Longshoreman. Salesman. Labourer. Journalist. Early-retired from The Province daily newspaper in Vancouver after 28-year career as reporter/editor/columnist.
BOOKS:
Spinner's Inlet (Horsdal and Schubart, 1989). Short story collection short-listed for the 1990 Leacock Medal for Humour
Sasquatch/Bigfoot (McClelland & Stewart, 1973; Signet Books, 1975; McClelland & Stewart, revised edition, 1993)
