James raffan biography

          James Raffan, author, filmmaker, teacher, explorer and former executive director of the Canadian Canoe Museum....

          PERSONAL: Born , in Canada; married; children: two.

        1. In , James was named by Canadian Geographic as one of Canada's most influential explorers of all time, “harness(ing) the power of storytelling to inspire.
        2. James Raffan, author, filmmaker, teacher, explorer and former executive director of the Canadian Canoe Museum.
        3. James Raffan is a prolific writer, speaker, and geographer, and the author of numerous books, including the bestselling Circling the Midnight Sun;.
        4. James Raffan is a scholar and an adventurer, an outdoorsman and a writer.

          5. ABOUT JAMES RAFFAN | SPEAKER. WRITER. EXPLORER.

          There’s a rumour afoot that James Raffan was born in a canoe on the Speed River in southwestern Ontario.

          As much as James would like to believe that, his mother has trouble with some of those details.

          Truth be told James, a first generation Canadian, son of a midwife and artist from the North of Scotland and a Yorkshire physician, was born in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Guelph, Ontario and was reborn in a canoe on the mighty Speed River, in the sense that his worldview changed the first time he paddled a real canoe, near his home on the edge of Riverside Park in Guelph.

          And from that moment on, the light of his lamp has been lit by self-propelled motion to discover and comprehend the length and breadth of the country that his parents chose over Australia and South Africa as a place to emigrate and start afresh following WWII.

          A boyhood of loving and learning about natural history wherever wild things might be found led to studies i