Gerry Bowler:
CLASS OF 1966
Walter Murray Collegiate High SchoolClass of 1966
Saskatoon, SK
University of Saskatchewan - Arts & ScienceClass of 1970
Saskatoon, SK
Gerry's Story
After getting my Master's in History at the University of Saskatchewan, I spent four years studying in London at King's College. I came back to Canada with a Ph.D. and two lovely daughters, teaching at the U of S and U of Regina. In 1983 my wife Karen got a job in the School of Music at the University of Manitoba and off we went to Winnipeg where we have been based ever since and where we added a third daughter. I taught History at a number of colleges and spent 25 years at the University of Manitoba where I shifted my research interests from Tudor England to the social history of Christmas. I've written a number of books including "Europe in the Sixteenth Century", "The World Encyclopedia of Christmas" and "Santa Claus: A Biography" as well as countless ar...Expand for more
ticles on Bloody Mary, the relationship between Aristotle and professional wrestling, the religious life of "The Simpsons" and the Canadian war against Christmas.
In 2014 I left the University of Manitoba to begin writing historical mysteries. Look for my paperbacks in the marked-down bin at Costco. "Christmas in the Cross-Hairs: 2,000 Years of Condemning and Defending the World's Favourite Holiday", came out in October 2016 from Oxford University Press and I published a collection of my shorter pieces in "The Kindly Curmudgeon: All Kinds of Writings from an Ink-Stained Life".
I am now a Senior Fellow for a think-tank, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and working on projects relating to the culture wars and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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