Michael Elcock
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Michael was born in Forres, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, in the woods, on West Coast fishing boats and as a ski instructor — earning along the way a B.A. and M.Ed at the University of Victoria, having undertaken post-graduate studies in Quebec, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, and Scotland. He was Athletic Director at the University of Victoria for ten years and then CEO of Tourism Victoria for five. In 1990 he moved with his wife and daughter to Andalusia to work on developing Spain’s Expo 92. He has lived in a number of different countries and has travelled fairly extensively in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. He has published many articles in periodicals, newspapers, and magazines in Canada and overseas. He now lives a few miles outside of Victoria, BC.