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Valerie Joan Haig-Brown (1936 British Columbia, Canada), activist, athlete, authoress, and conservationist
Personal
Valerie Joan Haig-Brown was born in 1936 to Roderick and Ann (Elmore) Haig-Brown.
In High-School, Valerie was a title winning Track and Field athlete. https://www.newspapers.com/image/491085828/?terms=valerie%2BHaig-Brown https://www.newspapers.com/image/506787135/?terms=%22val%2BHaig-Brown%22 She was also one of the early members of the Vancouver Olympic Club. In 1954, VOC president Alex Frew named her as one of the potential athletes that the club was considering to send to the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver. https://www.newspapers.com/image/500453821/?terms=valerie%2B%22Haig-Brown%22 She was also a the president of the Drama Club and a writer for the school annual. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpublications/ubysseynews/items/1.0125394#p2z-3r0f:%22valerie%20haig%20brown%22
In the mid 1950's she married Joseph Cvetkovich.https://www.newspapers.com/image/492316506/?terms=%22valerie%2BHaig-Brown%22 With him she had a daughter named Ann Luja in 1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/492321003/?terms=%22valerie%2BHaig-Brown%22 Ann Luja has a doctorate in English Language and Literature and as of 2020 is the Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University. https://carleton.ca/womensstudies/people/ann-cvetkovich/ Valerie and Joseph divorced sometime in the mid to late 1960's.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Valerie was married to a Mr. McGregor. While editing a book by her father that was to be published posthumously in the early 1980's, Valerie went to talk with writer Andy Russell in Watertown Park Alberta. She met his son H. John Russell during her brief time there. She went on to marry John in 1983. https://www.newspapers.com/image/485443239/?terms=%22valerie%2Bhaig-brown%22 https://web.archive.org/web/20110711125736/http://greatoutdoors.com/published/waterton-the-quiet-jewel-of-canadas-rockies
She climbed Vancouver Island’s Mt. Haig-Brown, named for her father, when she was 70 (Valerie Haig Brown fonds).
Time at University
Valerie attended the University of British Columbia from 1953-1957. During her first year, in 1954, she ran in the Alumni Association Society election for 2nd member at large, which she lost.https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpublications/ubysseynews/items/1.0123917#p0z Beginning in January 1955, she was a writer and editor for The Ubyssey. This time as an editor and reporter appears to have ended in late 1956, just before her wedding to Joseph Cvetkovich.https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpublications/ubysseynews/items/1.0125251#p0z-10000r0f:%22haig%20brown%22 She was also an editor of the Chronicle. She also held membership in the Kappa Kappa Gamma, Women’s Residence Council, and Women’s Administration Board. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpublications/alumchron/items/1.0224313#p37z-2r0f:cvetkovich
Professional Career
She was an editor with MacLean's and The Canadian magazines.
In 1969, Valerie, as "Valerie McGregor," became the editor of a new free magazine called the "Toronto Calendar," which was distributed to wealthy households in Toronto. https://www.newspapers.com/image/492274970/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/492447429/?terms=valerie%2Bhaig%2Bbrown%2Bmcgregor
In 1978, while working for TV Ontario as manager of information services, Valerie was asked by publish Jack McClelland to edit her father's writings. She ended up discovering enough material for three books after perusing her father's material. Shortly after discovering the amount of work to be done, she quit TV Ontario and devoted herself to the Trilogy. https://www.newspapers.com/image/482775283/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/496272209/?terms=%22Valerie%2BHaig-Brown%22
Publications
Deep currents : Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown
Editor of To Know a River : A Haig-Brown Reader by Roderick Haig-Brown Writings and Reflections : From the World of Roderick Haig-Brown The master and his fish : from the world of Roderick Haig-Brown Alison's fishing birds Excerpts from the diaries of Roderick Haig-Brown, 1927-1929 & 1932-1933 Woods and river tales Voices in the wind : a Waterton-Glacier anthology