Louise Abbott

Louise Abbott (born 1950)^[1] is a Canadian non-fiction writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Life and work

Abbott graduated from McGill University in 1972.^[2]

Her work has appeared in the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Heritage and Photo Life.^[3]

Publications

• The Coast Way: a Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988)
• The French Shore: Newfoundland's Port-au-Port Peninsula. Waterous.
• A Country So Wild and Grand
• The Heart of the Farm: a History of Barns and Fences in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. With Niels Jensen.
• Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree/Terre des Cris (COTA, 2010)^[2]
• Memphrémagog: An Illustrated History: Une Histoire Illustrée (Volume 1)
• Memphrémagog: An Illustrated History: Une Histoire Illustrée (Volume 2)

Films

• The Pinnacle and the Poet
• Alexander Walbridge: The Visionary of Mystic
• Giving Shelter
• Crisscrossing Space and Time
• A Journey to Remember
• Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story
• The Sugarmakers^[4]
• Niels Jensen, Cabinetmaker (2019) – short documentary^[5]
• The Ahiarmiut: Out-of-the-Way Dwellers (2020) – documentary
• CRUX: The Transformation of AnneBruce Falconer (2021) – short documentary^[6]
• Ayer's Cliff Fair^[7]

Awards

• 2002 Canadian Journalism Foundation Greg Clark Internship Award^[8]
• 2002: Professional Writers Association of Canada's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism^[9]
• 1989: Finalist, QSPELL Award (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature, now the Quebec Writers' Federation) for The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence^[9]
• 2014: Winner, Jasper Short Film Festival Best Film by an Established Filmmaker award for her documentary Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story^[10]