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Mark Bourrie

Mark Donnelly Bourrie, (1957-), author and academic based in Ottawa, Canada. Born Toronto, April 2, 1957. The Boure' family originated in Normandy and had close ties to the French crown, one member serving as first minister to Francois I. Gilles Boure' immigrated to Canada in 1676 and settled at Charlesbourg, just north of Quebec City. Henri Boure' was captain of the Charlesbourg militia on Montcalm's right at the Plains of Abraham. The militia fought a fierce fighting retreat at the St. Charles River. A cousin, Joseph Bourret, was Montreal's second mayor, serving during a virulent outbreak of cholera that killed more than 10,000 people. His mother's family, the Gilmans, were prominent politicians, writers and educators in New England. Bourrie holds a BA in History (Waterloo), a diploma in Public Policy and Administration (Guelph), a Master's in Journalism (Carleton) and is working (in 2005) on a doctorate in History at the university of Ottawa. He began his journlaism career at the Hamilton Spectator as a summer student, worked as a student reporter at the Globe and Mail, and spent a summer on the staff of the London Free Press. In 1979-80, he was assistant business editor at the Toronto Sun. From 1981 to 1989, he was a freelance correspondent for the Globe and Mail and from 1989-1999 wrote for the Toronto Star. His work has appeared in every major Canadian newspaper, in newspapers in the U.S., and, through the InterPress news service operated by the United Nations, in major newspapers throughout the world, translated into a dozen languages. He is also a frequent contributor to legal publications. Bourrie has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994.Bourrie is contributing editor of Ottawa magazine and has written for other major Canadian periodicals. He has won a Canadian National Magazine Award, was nominated three times, and was nominated in 2004 for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in magazine writing. He was also awarded a National Newspaper Award certificate of merit in 1979, for a first-person account of a close encounter with an F5 tornado. His first book, Ninety Fathoms Down, a collection of Great Lakes ship stories, was published by Dundurn/Hounslow in 1995. He has also witten The Parliament Buildings (1996), By Reason of Insanity (1997), Flim Flam (1998), The Parliament Buildings (with Malak Karsh photos, 1999), Hemp (2003), True Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes (1994), and Many a Midnight Ship (1995). Bourrie is also a world-recognized amateur expert in Ordovician invertebrate paleontology. He has dicovered several new important fossil localities and a number of new species of trilobites, crinoids, and other examples of early life. His wife Marion van de Wetering is the author of An Ottawa Album (1996) and A Kingston Album (1997). links http://www.ottawawatch.blogspot.com