Tony Rees was winner of the 2008 Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.2008 WALLACE STEGNER GRANT WINNER TO GIVE PUBLIC READINGMr. Tony Rees of Geneva, Switzerland has been chosen as the 2008 winner of the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.Mr. Rees was educated at the University of Western Ontario, graduating in 1972 with an MA in 17th Century English Literature.In 1973, he went to work at the United Church of Canada Archives in Toronto, Ontario, before moving on to become the first Fine Arts Archivist with the City of Toronto Archives in 1975.Following a period as Supervisor of the City of Toronto Archives, Rees moved west in 1981 to become the first City Archivist of the City of Calgary, charged with creating a comprehensive public archives and statutory records programme.In 1985, he left the City of Calgary to join the Organizing Committee for Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games, building the foundation for what would become its archival legacy.In 1986, he was appointed Chief Archivist at Calgary Glenbow Museum, the largest non-government manuscript archives in western Canada, a position he held until 1993. During his tenure, Glenbow Archives created its first-ever on-line arrangement and description system and published the first comprehensive catalogue of its holdings.Since leaving the Glenbow, Rees has published three volumes of western history:Hope’s Last Home (1996) is a study of the Milk River country along the Alberta-Montana border and was short-listed for the Alberta Writers Guild award in non-fiction.The Galloping Game: An Illustrated History of Polo in the Canadian West (2000) grew from over three years of original research in North American and British archives. With a foreword by HRH Prince Charles, Polo Quarterly International called it one of the most important books ever written on the sport.Written with the assistance of a grant from the Canada Council, Rees’ latest book, Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains (2007) is published in Canada by Vancouver’s Douglas & McIntyre and in the US by the University of Nebraska Press. The book won the Manitoba Historical Society’s 2007 McWilliams Prize for popular history.To Contact us click here
Tony Rees was winner of the 2008 Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.
2008 WALLACE STEGNER GRANT WINNER TO GIVE PUBLIC READING
Mr. Tony Rees of Geneva, Switzerland has been chosen as the 2008 winner of the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.
Mr. Rees was educated at the University of Western Ontario, graduating in
1972 with an MA in 17th Century English Literature.
In 1973, he went to work at the United Church of Canada Archives in
Toronto, Ontario, before moving on to become the first Fine Arts Archivist
with the City of Toronto Archives in 1975.
Following a period as Supervisor of the City of Toronto Archives, Rees
moved west in 1981 to become the first City Archivist of the City of Calgary,
charged with creating a comprehensive public archives and statutory
records programme.
In 1985, he left the City of Calgary to join the Organizing Committee for
Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games, building the foundation for what would
become its archival legacy.
In 1986, he was appointed Chief Archivist at Calgary Glenbow Museum, the largest non-government manuscript archives
in western Canada, a position he held until 1993. During his tenure, Glenbow Archives created its first-ever on-line
arrangement and description system and published the first comprehensive catalogue of its holdings.
Since leaving the Glenbow, Rees has published three volumes of western history:
Hope’s Last Home (1996) is a study of the Milk River country along the Alberta-Montana border and was short-listed for
the Alberta Writers Guild award in non-fiction.
The Galloping Game: An Illustrated History of Polo in the Canadian West (2000) grew from over three years of original
research in North American and British archives. With a foreword by HRH Prince Charles, Polo Quarterly International
called it one of the most important books ever written on the sport.
Written with the assistance of a grant from the Canada Council, Rees’ latest book, Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the
World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains (2007) is published in Canada by Vancouver’s Douglas &
McIntyre and in the US by the University of Nebraska Press. The book won the Manitoba Historical Society’s 2007
McWilliams Prize for popular history.
To Contact us click here
