Author Biography: Halifax born Ruth M. (Jones) McVeigh lives in Union Bay on Vancouver Island. She began her career in writing as a cub reporter with the Halifax newspaper and wrote reviews and features for the Toronto GLOBE AND MAIL, the Vancouver SUN and WESTERN LIVING Magazine before taking the job of Women's Editor at the Campbell River COURIER & UPPER ISLANDER and writing the North Island Tourism booklet. Her autobiography, Shifting Ground, will be available through Amazon in June.
In 1960 while living in Orillia, Ontario, she and her first husband founded the Mariposa Folk Festival which is now in its 45th year. |
