Lawrence Earl
Lawrence Earl was born on 29 April 1915 in Saint John, New Brunswick. During WWII, he worked as a writer and photographer for the Montreal Standard where he met his wife, Jane Armstrong. Earl was sent overseas in 1944 and covered the Canadian advance from Normandy to Germany. His war photographs were published by most of the London dailies and, in 1946, National Geographic published his photo essay on the rebuilding of Holland's dikes. After the war, the Earls occasionally collaborated on stories for Illustrated Magazine, Mirror Features, and the Montreal Standard. Earl also worked as editor of Star Weekly in Toronto and John Bull in England. After spending most of 50 years in London, the Earls returned to New Brunswick in 1999 and made their home in Grand Bay-Westfield. Lawrence Earl died on 5 April 2005 at Saint John Regional Hospital.
Thanks to Gary Davis for the corrections and additional information.
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Awards
- Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
- 1953 – The Battle of Baltinglass – Winner
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Comments (3)
I am interested in information about Bryan Howard Dempster, the man in the book 'Crocodile Fever' written by Lawrence Earl in 1954. I would appreciate anything that I can find about him. Thanks, Roger
Posted by Roger Compton on September 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM
He was my Grandfather although I never met him. What are you looking to find out?
Posted by Charlotte Dempster on May 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM
I happened to come across this site by accident, and would like to share something that can be of interest to Howard Dempster's relatives - how his adventures still stirs memories and nostalgia in people who have read about him, and what he experienced. As a little boy growing up in Norway (born 1953) I was consumed with hunting, fishing and adventure in faraway places. I was too young to borrow books (about 5 years old), so my sister (6 years older)borrowed books for me at the school library. The first book she brought home was "Crocodile Fever", and I was totally taken away by the story and all the interesting geographical, ethnological, biological and hunting information it contained. I wanted to go there! I am now 56 years old, and have been living in the US for the last 20 of them. I have never been able to get this book out of my mind, and in the end the feeling grew so strong that I sat down and searched on a site in Scandinavia called "Antikvariat.net". It took me about 30 seconds to find it (!), and after a weeks waiting - it is now on my book shelf! I have read it again, and it was a real relief to again be able to actually read all the passages I could just vaguely remember from 50-some years ago.
Thank you, Howard Dempster, for an interesting life and a fantastic story! It will forever remain one of the great experiences of my childhood.
Ozzie Sollien
Posted by Asbjorn "Ozzie" Sollien on July 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM