J. Edward Chamberlin

The grandson of an Alberta rancher, Chamberlin has bred horses and collected stories about them for much of his life.

Chamberlin is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, but his interest in stories and songs has taken him around the world, to peoples as different as the hunters of the Kalahari and the herders of Mongolia – and then back to the farmers of Mulmur Township, where he raises horses. The author of several books, his most recent tome, Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations, is the fascinating story of horses and humans from the beginning of time to the present.

Chamberlin also worked with Thomas Berger on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, was Senior Research Associate with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and has worked extensively on native land claims in Canada, the United States, Africa and Australia.