About the Author

Donald MacKay

Donald MacKay has had a forty-year career as journalist, broadcaster and author. Descended from Pictou County settlers, and born and educated in Nova Scotia, he was a wartime merchant seaman, has been a reporter for Canadian Press, and covered major stories in a dozen countries for United Press International. He spent a decade as chief European correspondent for UPI Broadcast Services, based in London, and was general manager of UPI in Canada for five years before turning to writing books.

Donald and his wife, Barbara, live in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Books by this Author

Flight from Famine

Flight from Famine

The Coming of the Irish to Canada

by Donald MacKay

edition:eBook

also available: Paperback eBook

tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867), ireland

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Scotland Farewell

Scotland Farewell

The People of the Hector

by Donald MacKay

edition:eBook

also available: Paperback

tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867), emigration & immigration, genealogy & heraldry

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The Lumberjacks

The Lumberjacks

by Donald MacKay

edition:Paperback

also available: Paperback eBook eBook

tagged : trees, social history

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Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals: Volume II: Assessment and New Chemicals

Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals: Volume II: Assessment and New Chemicals

edited by Robert L. Lipnick; Bo Jansson; Donald MacKay & Myrto Petreas

edition:Hardcover

tagged : environmental science

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