James raffan biography
James raffan biography book.
ABOUT JAMES RAFFAN | SPEAKER.
James raffan biography
WRITER. EXPLORER.
There’s a rumour afoot that James Raffan was born in a canoe on the Speed River in southwestern Ontario.
As much as James would like to believe that, his mother has trouble with some of those details.
Truth be told James, a first generation Canadian, son of a midwife and artist from the North of Scotland and a Yorkshire physician, was born in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Guelph, Ontario and was reborn in a canoe on the mighty Speed River, in the sense that his worldview changed the first time he paddled a real canoe, near his home on the edge of Riverside Park in Guelph.
And from that moment on, the light of his lamp has been lit by self-propelled motion to discover and comprehend the length and breadth of the country that his parents chose over Australia and South Africa as a place to emigrate and start afresh following WWII.
A boyhood of loving and learning about natural history wherever wild things might be found led to studies i