Rick Stapleton and Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat: He had a nice conversation with the Canadian icon last Tuesday about arranging a visit this fall to the author Port Hope home. On Wednesday, he got word that Mowat had died the night before. The author of 40 books who first began donating his personal papers to McMaster in 1972 was 92. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "He was very pleased that his doctor had okayed him to go and spend the summer in Cape Breton as he always did. It was a real shock to get this news." Rick Stapleton was planning to visit Farley Mowat to retrieve about 50 boxes of documents to add to his archives at McMaster University. "He said he was feeling great and that there was no urgency anymore to clear out his house," Stapleton said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.