Louise Abbott

Louise Abbott (born 1950) is a Canadian non-fiction writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Life and work Abbott graduated from McGill University in 1972.

Her work has appeared in the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Heritage and Photo Life.

Publications The Coast Way: a Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988) The French Shore: Newfoundland's Port-au-Port Peninsula. Waterous. A Country So Wild and Grand The Heart of the Farm: a History of Barns and Fences in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. With Niels Jensen. Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree/Terre des Cris (COTA, 2010) Niels Jensen, Cabinetmaker (2019) – short documentary The Ahiarmiut: Out-of-the-Way Dwellers (2020) – documentary CRUX: The Transformation of AnneBruce Falconer (2021) – short documentary Ayer's Cliff Fair

Awards 2002 Canadian Journalism Foundation Greg Clark Internship Award 2002: Professional Writers Association of Canada's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism 1989: Finalist, QSPELL Award (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature, now the Quebec Writers' Federation) for The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence