Dr. Peter March | Dr. Shawn Warren | Evelyn Leslie | Teachers, Deer Country Hideaway

Dr. Peter March, now retired, taught for thirty years at Saint Mary's University
and was given the Gold Medal for teaching. He was invited to Oxford University
and spent a year teaching there. In Canada he is a public intellectual who has
challenged the right of Islamic Canadians to restrict free-speech and recently
toured Eastern Canada discussing "Islam and Democracy". He has met with
numerous Islamic groups and has debated key issues with them, in particular, the interpretation of the Koran. He has defended the right of Canadians to have public debate with racists. He has written over a thousand columns and articles and has published locally, nationally and internationally. He has appeared often on both radio and television and his public work has been reported on the CBC, CTV, and 'around the world' on CNN.

Dr. Shawn Warren has taught for ten years at various institutions including our own St. Mary`s and Dalhousie Universities as well as the University of Waterloo in Ontario. He was nominated in 2004 for the Father Steward Award for Excellence in Teaching at St. Mary`s University. He hosts a weekly philosophy busk as Dalhousie University, where the public are free to sit and do philosophy. His main area of expertise is philosophy of mind and in particular the problem of consciousness.

Evelyn Leslie is a devoted mother, wife and grandmother. She began scrapbooking about 6 & ½ hears ago and was hooked from the first page. Within 3 months she had started a small business and opened her own shop. On her grand opening weekend she lost her 21 year old son and her world crashed around her. What kept her going were her family and friends and her memories, photos and scrapbooking. Building and putting together his life on pages helped her with the fear that Andrew would not be forgotten. Scrapbooking his life and stories was as way to tell others about her son and give information to his daughter, nieces and nephews so his memory would be with them forever.

She did the same thing for her mother when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s so people would remember both the happy and sad times, the “everyday stuff” that we take for granted.
Throughout the highs and lows in our lives, she has realized that none of us will be here forever and to her scrapbooking is a wonderful way to keep our life stories for future generations to enjoy long after we have moved on to another life.