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James E. Elliott

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Biography

James Elliott will be participating in the Local History Non-fiction panel on Saturday, April 10 at 2:00pm at the Dundas Historical Society Museum.

A non-graduate of Ryerson's journalism school, James Elliott has worked for newspapers in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, most recently the Hamilton Spectator for seventeen years where he specialized in local history. He spent ten years as an historical re-enactor, in three different time periods, animating six different Canadian and American units. He worked as a consultant and special skills extra on several episodes of the CBC's Gemini Award-winning Canada: A People's History, as well as Brian McKenna's 1812 and Chiefs. He has written widely on Canada's early formative history and is the author of three books including the critically-acclaimed If Ponies Rode Men, which should have been made into a major motion picture, and Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek.