The author was born in in Regina, Saskatchewan, climbed poles for a telephone company, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company fur trade, once operated an HBC camp trade, taught indigenous children in northern Manitoba, Quebec, and on Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories. Later he served and worked with the Inuit artists an crafts makers for ten years while employed by the Federal and NWT governments in Fort Chimo, PQ, Frobisher Bay, Yellowknife, and Ottawa. Over those years he traveled the Arctic, learning and sharing in programs providing material, financial, and technical assistance to Inuit artists and artisans, He earned a BEd in Art Education, and an MA in Community and Regional Planning with an emphasis on Arctic Settlements. His philosophy was shaped by his appreciation of Inuit demonstrating Humanity, Humility, and Humour, and Anton Chekhov, the playwright's theme: Life goes on regardless of adversity, so Persevere, live life to the full!" even though life is beautiful, but absurd.
