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).