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Sid Marty (born 1944) is a Canadian writer.[1][2] Marty has written five non-fiction books and five poetry books, and also is a singer.[3] Many of his books reflect the time he spent as a park warden for Parks Canada between 1966 and 1978 in Yoho, Jasper, Prince Albert and Banff national parks.[4][5] Marty grew up in Medicine Hat and Calgary, and now lives in Pincher Creek. He received an undergraduate degree from Sir George Williams University.[6] His three poetry collections are Headwaters, Nobody Danced with Miss Rodeo and Sky Humour; The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek won the Grand Prize of the Banff Mountain Book Festival in 2008.
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- 1973: Headwaters (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0771058141
- 1978: Men for the Mountains, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 320 pages. ISBN 978-0771056727
- 1981: Nobody Danced With Miss Rodeo (poetry), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 108 pages. ISBN 978-0771058615
- 1985: A Grand and Fabulous Notion: The first century of Canada's parks, Toronto: NC Press, 156 pages. ISBN 978-0920053072
- 1995: Leaning on the Wind: Under the spell of the great Chinook, Toronto: Harper-Collins, 352 pages. ISBN 978-1894974622
- 1999: Sky Humour (poetry), Windsor: Black Moss, 102 pages. ISBN 978-0887533310
- 1999: Switchbacks: true stories of the Canadian Rockies, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 336 pages. ISBN 978-0771056703[5]
- 2008: The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 296 pages. ISBN 978-0771056987
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