Background
Mick Lowe was born as Michael Ellenwood Lowe on September 23, 1947, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He is the son of Jack Whiddon and Grace Ellenwood Lowe.
2015
Mick Lowe in 2015.
2015
Mick Lowe in University South Wales Hall in May 2015.
2017
Mick Lowe in 2017.
2017
Mick Lowe with Robin Philpot and Oryst Sawchuk in 2017.
1400 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68588, United States
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln where Mick Lowe studied.
2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
The University of Calgary where Mick Lowe studied.
Mick Lowe with his daughters.
(On the night of October 18, 1978, small-town biker Bill M...)
On the night of October 18, 1978, small-town biker Bill Matiyek was having a drink in a Port Hope bar. A gunman suddenly walked up and fired 3 bullets into his head. Members of the rival bike club Satan's Choice, who were in the bar, quickly vanished. Was it a cold-blooded gangland-style execution, as the Crown Attorney and police would argue, or the compulsive act of a single gunman? Was the trial that followed driven by persistent police work or a police frame-up? Did the bikers conspire to murder or did the law conspire to convict them? Guilt by association, unreliable eyewitness testimony, suppression of evidence, botched police procedures - call the results justice or call them revenge, the question remains: Who really killed Bill Matiyek, and why?
https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Brothers-Story-Bikers-Murder-ebook/dp/B00AD6P542/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(One Woman Army is the story of social activist Claire Cul...)
One Woman Army is the story of social activist Claire Culhane and her fight against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, her participation in the Young Communist League and in the trade union movement in the 1940s, her denunciation of Canada's complicity in the Vietnam War, and her campaign for penal system reforms.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Woman-Army-Claire-Culhane/dp/0771591829/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(Premature Bonanza is the story of Bay Street's greatest r...)
Premature Bonanza is the story of Bay Street's greatest running drama: the struggle by Inco Ltd., the world's largest nickel producer, to bring the Voisey's Bay nickel deposit in Northern Labrador into production, for the most part against the wishes of the Aboriginal People. Will this $4.3 billion gamble ensure Inco's-and Labrador's-role as a low-cost nickel producer well into the 21st century? Or will it spell ruin for the company, the environment, and the people who live there?
https://www.amazon.com/Premature-Bonanza-Standoff-Voiseys-Bay/dp/1896357172
1998
(It’s spring, 1963 in the “Nickel Capital of the World.” N...)
It’s spring, 1963 in the “Nickel Capital of the World.” Nineteen-year-old Jake McCool is about to undergo a rite of passage - his first shift underground in a hard rock mine. But the Cold War is at its height, and Jake is also about to become a reluctant participant in a bitter interunion battle fueled by the global struggle between two ideologies in the wake of the Second World War. So is his girlfriend, Jo Ann Winters. Together the couple is swept up in a web of intrigue; at its center is a terrible secret that will haunt their relationship for the rest of their lives, as their hometown becomes not only one of the world’s greatest hard rock mining centers, but also the epicenter of the Cold War in North America. In this fast-paced novel set against the little-known historical backdrop of a true-life battle that included vicious beatings, riots, and worse, author Mick Lowe posits a provocative premise: that the U.S. government-sponsored a ruthless covert operation to destabilize a strategic community in the heartland of its closest ally, Canada.
https://www.amazon.com/Raids-Nickel-Range-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00JD01OH6/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in...)
In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in the heart of Canada’s Nickel Range, Jake McCool, the injured hard-rock miner, returns to work for the International Nickel Company (INCO) but now at its nearby Copper Cliff smelter complex. In no time, Jake finds himself embroiled in a vicious fight over health and safety and, more specifically, over the extreme levels of sulfur dioxide that poison the air in the smelter but also in the entire surrounding area. The fight takes on new dimensions as freelance reporter Foley Gilpin sparks interest at Canada’s national daily Globe & Mail and as local parliamentarian Harry Wardell smells the collusion between INCO and the highest levels of Ministry of Natural Resources at Queen’s Park in Toronto.
https://www.amazon.com/Insatiable-Maw-Nickel-Range-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00XTAT2Y8/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(It's September 1978 and the 11,700 hard rock miners and s...)
It's September 1978 and the 11,700 hard rock miners and smelter and refinery workers of Inco's Sudbury operations face a stark choice: remain on the job without a contract or take seemingly suicidal strike action against a hard-nosed employer that's accumulated a nickel stockpile vast enough to last a year without further production. A fateful choice is made, one that will change the lives of newlyweds Jake and Jo Ann McCool and the Canadian labor movement forever. Against a backdrop of unrelenting winter and swirling changes in social mores, the ensuing struggle triggers epical challenges few could have foreseen.
https://www.amazon.com/Wintersong-Nickel-Range-Trilogy-3-ebook/dp/B0728JS2MQ/?tag=2022091-20
2017
Mick Lowe was born as Michael Ellenwood Lowe on September 23, 1947, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He is the son of Jack Whiddon and Grace Ellenwood Lowe.
Mick Lowe attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1965 till 1969. While studying, Lowe was a columnist and writer for Daily Nebraskan from 1966 till 1968 and a staff writer for Lincoln Daily Star from 1967 till 1968. He moved to Canada in 1970 and studied there at the University of Calgary.
After moving to Canada Mick Lowe worked as a staff writer and columnist at Georgia Straight from 1970 till 1972. In 1972 he was a co-founder of The Grape. Then he worked as an editor at Gauntlet from 1973 till 1974. Later he joined The Globe and Mail as a freelance correspondent for three years, worked as a staff reporter at CBC Radio News and as a founding producer at LBC radio Morning North Sudbury and returned to The Globe and Mail. After working there for eight years, Lowe published his first book Conspiracy of Brothers: A True Story of Murder, Bikers, and the Law (1988). This book is an account of the criminal investigation and trial of eight men accused of the 1978 murder of Bill Matiyek, a biker with the Golden Hawks Riders. Lowe raised questions regarding the handling of evidence and the testimony of witnesses.
Lowe continued writing books and also taught journalism at Cambrian College from 1988 till 1990. His next book was One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane (1992). It's Lowe’s biography of the Canadian who championed human rights by opposing fascism during the Spanish Civil War through the support of trade unions in the 1940s and by exposing political corruption while serving as a nurse during the Vietnam War. The book features black and white photographs of Culhane dating back to her childhood. This book was followed by a book on the rush to exploit the Voisey's Bay nickel deposit, Premature Bonanza: Standoff at Voisey's Bay (1998).
That same year, he was diagnosed with cancer and referred to Sudbury's newly created cancer treatment center, where he received radiation. Lowe's career was interrupted by a stroke in 2008 that left him partially paralyzed on his left side. He was forced to leave his home and became a resident of a Pioneer Manor. There he realized his long-time goal to write fiction, something he had struggled to achieve in the past. As a result, the author published his The Nickel Range Trilogy consisting of books The Raids (2014), The Insatiable Maw (2015), and Wintersong (2017). Nowadays, Mick Lowe is working on his next project: a memoir about his life growing up in the United States.
(It's September 1978 and the 11,700 hard rock miners and s...)
2017(One Woman Army is the story of social activist Claire Cul...)
1992(In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in...)
2015(On the night of October 18, 1978, small-town biker Bill M...)
1988(Premature Bonanza is the story of Bay Street's greatest r...)
1998(It’s spring, 1963 in the “Nickel Capital of the World.” N...)
2014Quotations: "We can make a difference. We can solve some of these problems which appear so intractable."
Mick Lowe is a member of Writers Union Canada.
Mick Lowe has two daughters, Julia Kathleen and Melanie Nancy.