BAXTER, Edward
Stratford, Ontario
French-English
Biographical Data

Edward Baxter was born in Prince Edward Island and is a graduate of Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. (B.A.) and the University of Toronto (M.A.). He taught French as a second language for many years in the public school system of Ontario, most of that time in North York, where he was Head of Modern Languages at Victoria Park Secondary School and then at Don Mills Collegiate Institute. In 1980 he was appointed for a one-year term as the first Poet Laureate of North York, and has had light verse published in a number of anthologies. In the same year, he began his career as a translator with a translation of Famille sans nom, Jules Verne's historical novel about the 1837 Rebellion in Lower Canada.

Translated Works

Original	VERNE, Jules. Voyage à travers l'impossible. Paris, France, B. Diffusion, 1981.
Translation	Journey Through the Impossible. Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books. 2003. Fiction - ISBN 1-59102-079-4.
Original	Various, Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, Vol. XV, Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005. ISBN 2-7637-8261-2
Translation	100 articles in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XV. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Biography. ISBN 0-8020-9087-7
Original	VERNE, Jules. L'Invasion de la mer. Paris, J. Hetzel, 1905.
Translation	Invasion of the Sea.. Middletown, CT, USA, Wesleyan University Press, 2001. Fiction - ISBN 0-8195-6465-6.
Original	KATTAN, Naïm A.M. Klein, la réconciliation des races et des religions. Montreal, XYZ Éditeur, 1994. ISBN 2-89261-108-3.
Translation	A.M. Klein, Poet and Prophet. Montreal, XYZ Publishing, 2001. Biography - ISBN 0-9688166-6-5.
Original	Various, Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, Vol. XIV, Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998. ISBN 2-7637-7551-9
Translation	100 articles in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XIV, Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1998. Biography. ISBN 0-8020-3476-4
Original	KARCH, Pierre, "Isla Mujeres," in Jeux de patience, Montreal: 1991. ISBN 2-89261-049-4.
Translation	"Isla Mujeres," in TransLit Volume 3, Calgary: ATIA, 1996. Short story - ISBN 09698371-1-9.
Original	VERNE, Jules. Le Humbug, Paris: 1910.
Translation	The Humbug in The Jules Verne Encyclopedia, ed. Brian Taves and Steve Michaluk Jr., Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 1996. Short story - ISBN 0-8108-2961-4.
Original	Various, Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, Vol. XIII, Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1994. ISBN 2-7637-7335-4.
Translation	80 articles in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XIII, Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1994. Biography - ISBN 0-8020-3998-7.
Original	Various, Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, Vol. XII, Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1990.
Translation	60 articles in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XII, Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1990. Biography - ISBN 0-8020-3460-8.
Original	MEUNIER-TARDIF, Ghislaine. Le Principe de Lafontaine, les auditifs et les visuels. Montreal: Éditions Libre Expression, 1985, 204 p. ISBN 2-89111-006-4.
Translation	Eye People, Ear People. Toronto: NC Press, 1989, 140 p. Non-fiction - ISBN 1-55021-009-2.
Original	VERNE, Jules. Le Pays des fourrures. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1873.
Translation	The Fur Country. Toronto: NC Press, 1987. 349 p. Fiction - ISBN 0-86299-353-9 (Out of print).
Original	FOURNIER, Louis. F.L.Q., Histoire d'un mouvement clandestin. Montreal: Québec/Amérique, 1982, 509 p. ISBN 2-89037-130-1.
Translation	F.L.Q, The Anatomy of an Underground Movement. Toronto: NC Press, 1984. 373 p. History - ISBN 0-919601-91-X.
Original	VERNE, Jules. Famille sans nom. Paris: Hetzel, 1889.
Translation	Family Without a Name. Toronto: NC Press, 1982, 312 p. Historical fiction - ISBN 0-919601-86-3 (Out of print).