Later, for Frontier School Division, he traveled across Manitoba’s north producing dozens of videos on community history and other educational topics. In the mid 1980’s Larry turned to film and video with work produced for Manitoba’s Department of Education. His first solo documentary book, Urban Indians, was published by Hurtig in 1981, followed by a novel, Shutter Speed (Turnstone Press) in 1987. His other journalism appeared in Weekend magazine, Western Living, Quest, the United Church Observer, Canadian Geographic, Saturday Night, Equinox, and Border Crossings. His first book was a collaboration with photographer, John Paskievich, Waiting for the Ice Cream Man, writings and photographs from Manitoba prisons published by Converse in 1976.įor several years in the 1980’s, Larry was Manitoba correspondent for The Globe & Mail turning out almost a hundred columns for the Saturday edition of the newspaper. Larry moved to Winnipeg in his twenties and became part of the lively writing community there, that included Carol Shields, Jake MacDonald, Dave Williamson, Don Bailey, Patrick Friesen, and Charles Wilkins. As a student, he spent a season as a labourer-teacher for the famed Frontier College where Norman Bethune and Benjamin Spock had worked before him, and also spent a year in Canada’s arctic working with Inuit students in Churchill Manitoba. He attended Norwell High School in Palmerston and graduated with a BA in political science from York University’s Glendon College in 1972. Larry Krotz grew up on a farm in Ontario, north of Stratford.
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