Editing Farley Mowat (section)

==Early life and education==

Mowat was born May 12, 1921, in [[Belleville, Ontario]],<ref name=gm>{{cite news|author=Sandra Martin|url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/acclaimed-canadian-author-farley-mowat-dead-at-92/article18511064/?page=all|title=Acclaimed Canadian author Farley Mowat dead at 92| work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=May 7, 2014|access-date =September 4, 2019}}</ref> and grew up in [[Richmond Hill, Ontario]].<ref name="death TorStar">{{cite news|last=Rinehart|first=Dianne|title=Farley Mowat, acclaimed Canadian author, dead at 92| url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/05/07/farley_mowat_acclaimed_canadian_author_dead_at_92.html|access-date=May 7, 2014|newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]|date=May 7, 2014}}</ref> His great-great-uncle was Ontario premier [[Oliver Mowat|Sir Oliver Mowat]],<ref name=gm/> and his father, [[Angus McGill Mowat|Angus Mowat]], was a librarian. During World War I, Angus fought in the [[Battle of Vimy Ridge]]. His mother was Helen Lilian Thomson, daughter of Henry Andrew Hoffman Thomson and Georgina Phillips Farley Thomson of Trenton, Ontario. Mowat started writing, in his words "mostly verse", when his family lived in [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]] from 1930 to 1933.<ref name=ce/>

In the 1930s, the Mowat family moved to [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]],<ref name=gm/> where as a teenager Mowat wrote about birds in a column for the ''[[Saskatoon Star-Phoenix]]''. During this time, he also wrote his own nature newsletter, ''Nature Lore''.<ref name="death TorStar" /> In the 1930s, Mowat studied [[zoology]] at the [[University of Toronto]] but never completed a degree.<ref name="CFN_2014" /> He took his first collecting expedition in the summer of 1939 to Saskatoon with fellow zoology student [[Alexander William Francis Banfield|Frank Banfield]], who collected data regarding mammals while Mowat focused on birds. They sold their collections to the [[Royal Ontario Museum]] to finance their trip.<ref name="CFN_2014" />{{RP|219}} Before the pair had enlisted for service in [[World War II]], Banfield published his field notes in the ''[[Canadian Field-Naturalist]]'', while Mowat published his when he returned from [[European theatre of World War II|serving in Europe]].