Background
Maggie Siggins was born on May 28, 1942 in Toronto, Canada.
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
Maggie Siggins received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism in 1965 from Ryerson Institute of Technology (nowadays Ryerson University).
(Based on more than 200 interviews with friends, family, b...)
Based on more than 200 interviews with friends, family, business associates, critics and enemies, Bassett is a remarkably thorough portrait of a distinguished Canadian publisher, broadcaster and businessman.
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1979
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Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic tyrant, Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel - a complex man full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Métis people. Infused with atmosphere and detail, this fascinating portrait is illuminating in its accounts of the people and events that moulded the enigmatic rebel. Revealing a man passionate about forging an equitable and just relationship between native and white people, Riel: A Life of Revolution is more relevant today than ever before.
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1994
(While researching the biography of Louis Riel, Maggie Sig...)
While researching the biography of Louis Riel, Maggie Siggins became aware of a figure lurking in the background who had had a profound influence on the great Canadian reformer. This was his grandmother Marie-Anne Lagimodière, née Gaboury. As Siggins' research progressed, she came to regard Marie-Anne as the most exceptional Canadian woman of the nineteenth century. The perils of Laura Secord and Susanna Moodie paled in comparison, yet she remains largely unknown.
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2008
historian journalist writer television producer
Maggie Siggins was born on May 28, 1942 in Toronto, Canada.
Maggie Siggins received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism in 1965 from Ryerson Institute of Technology (nowadays Ryerson University).
Having spent six years on the news staff of the Toronto Telegram, followed by years working for CBC Radio, teaching at the University of Regina, and working as a freelance journalist, Maggie Siggins has achieved a reputation as a crackerjack reporter. Siggins' several books have, with the exception of a 1969 guide to ski resorts, concentrated on Canadian biography and true crime. Some of her best known books are Bassett: John Bassett's Forty Years in Politics, Publishing, Business, and Sports, Brian and the Boys: The Story of a Gang Rape, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy, and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm, and Louis Riel: A Life of Revolution.
Siggins garnered a good deal of publicity for her 1979 book, Bassett, a biography of John Bassett, the former publisher of the Toronto Telegram. Siggins spent almost five years working on the book and interviewed some two hundred people who knew Bassett.
Siggins' next book, 1984's Brian and the Boys: The Story of a Gang Rape, was an "insightful, incisive examination" of a lurid Canadian court case. Brian Dempster, his five "boys," and two women who lived with and supported them were involved in a gang rape; the six men were tried, convicted, and sentenced to a combined eighty-seven years in prison. Siggins, who initially approached the crime as a study in misogyny, ultimately viewed it as a study of the imperfections of the Canadian justice system. She found evidence that the trial was unfair and that the two women, who were not tried, might have been involved in the rape.
In her next book, A Canadian Tragedy: JoAnn and Colin Thatcher, a Story of Love and Hate, Siggins examines a celebrated murder case that occurred in Saskatchewan at the time she herself happened to be teaching at the University of Regina.
Siggins followed A Canadian Tragedy with the 1991 book Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy, and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm, which also deals with Saskatchewan crime and history.
In 1994 Siggins published an ambitious venture into Canadian history, Louis Riel: A Life of Revolution. Her subject, Louis Riel, was the leader of the Metis, the mixed-blood, French-and-English-speaking people of the Red River region near what later became Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother and Scattered Bones are her two latest books.
Maggie is the vice-president, creative of 4 Square Entertainment. She has written and produced many films for that company. Siggins has written a dramatic adaptation of Bitter Embrace and acted as a story editor on the feature documentary Silent Bombs: All for the Motherland. 4 Square's latest film, Invisible Threat, has been shown around the world.
(Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic proph...)
1994(Based on more than 200 interviews with friends, family, b...)
1979(While researching the biography of Louis Riel, Maggie Sig...)
2008Maggie Siggins is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada, Project Censored Canada and Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
Maggie Siggins is married to Gerald Sperling.