Michael Ondaatje and Ellen Godfrey

Margaret Atwood Northrop Frye: That energy coalesced in many forms, many careers – scholar; Governor-General Award-winning author; publisher of writers as varied as Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood and Northrop Frye; mentor, teacher and administrator; Canadian nationalist; cultural-industries advocate; Internet pioneer; new-media expert; owner of an organic vineyard; and vintner, according to Globe and Mail. Somewhere in there, too, he found the time to become a proficient jazz trumpeter as well as the father of a daughter and two sons. As Ellen Godfrey, his wife of 52 years, said recently: He had more energy than any two or three people put together. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone When in the early 1980s, an episode of ventricular fibrillation nearly killed Mr. Mr. Godfrey, friend and writer W.D. Valgardson voiced the surprise of many at the time: God, I thought he was immortal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.