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Victor Suthren is a Canadian writer and historian. The unusual name Suthren is an anglicized form of Old Norse "sudraenn", meaning south or southlander. A native of Montreal, Quebec, of Northumbrian and Welsh descent, he was educated at Bishop's, McGill and Concordia universities, with summers spent in the Naval Reserve and the Fort Henry Guard before joining the Canadian Public Service in 1971. He served as Director General of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa from 1986 to 1997, having joined the museum in 1975, and had been appointed an Honorary Captain in the Royal Canadian Navy the year he left the museum. He has worked as an advisor and on-screen presenter for several film and television productions and has voyaged as a seaman in traditional "tall ships" in the Atlantic, Great Lakes, and across the Pacific to Hawaii, the last as crew/lecturer in the Australian replica of James Cook's 1768 ship, HM Bark 'Endeavour'. While at the museum and later for the Navy he organized and led large-scale historical naval pageants at Louisbourg, Halifax, Toronto, Kingston, Amherstburg/Put-in Bay and Niagara-on-the-lake, involving sailing vessels, replica longboats, and naval re-enactors. He is the author of several works of historical non-fiction as well as two series of historical sea fiction, his most recent book being 'The Island of Canada', published in 2009. He currently is writing a major historical novel based on the life and career of French navigator and seaman Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. He holds the Canadian Forces Decoration and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. He lives with his wife Lindsay Suthren in Merrickville, Ontario, and is the father of 3 grown children and grandfather to five grandchildren. A member of the Captain Cook Society, Les Amis de Bougainville, the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the Naval Association of Canada, his hobbies include sailing, kayaking, cross-country skiing, and amateur theatrical performance. Wikipedia [ - ]
