Five Ages of Canada: A History From Our First Peoples to Confederation

 Born in Britain, Graham Gibbs is proud to be Canadian, and has been a citizen since 1975. After immigrating to Canada in his mid-twenties armed with an Electronics Engineering degree, he held senior marketing and management positions at the Canadian Marconi Company in Montreal. In 1983 he was selected to participate in the unique two week Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference for emerging leaders. Graham’s enduring ambition to promote Canada abroad was fulfilled in 1988 when, after a national competition, he joined what would soon become the Canadian Space Agency. Working from Washington, DC, he represented the Canadian Space Program for twenty-two years. Among other honours, he received NASA’s highest award for non-employees, the Exceptional Service Medal. Graham and his wife, Jay, returned to Canada in 2010, where he retired eighteen months later.

Graham has written professionally and for pleasure his entire adult life. In addition to reports and studies, he has authored more than fifty papers and articles, as well as a book of marketing lessons that was published in 1997. His personal works include three short autobiographical books, and articles that include recounting his experiences on a scuba diving expedition at Cobb Seamount (300km off the Oregon coast), running the world’s northernmost marathon on Baffin Island, and hiking England coast-to-coast. Graham says that Five Ages of Canada has been his most in-depth and rewarding writing experience to date.