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Lyn Hancock
Lyn Hancock is an award-winning Australian-Canadian photojournalist, wildlife activist, and author. In addition to her more adventurous career she taught for 12 years in Australia, England, and Canada. She took on and completed numerous studies including a Masters in Communication. Today her creative stories based on lived events act as learning materials for students.

Lyn wrote her Masters thesis "A History of Changing Attitudes Felis Concolor" in 1980 at the Simon Fraser University about changing attitudes towards cougars. She has continued to advocate for animals since. In 2009, Simon Fraser University awarded Lyn one of the "Outstanding Alumni Awards for Arts & Culture".

She has been awarded and nationally distinguished for her Canadian travel literature describing lived experiences in the north. Between 1986 to 1997 she published five books based off her personal adventures in northern Canada alone.

In 2013 Hancock travelled to Africa to retrace her steps from a trip she made and documented in 1960.

Books Written

 * There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag (1972) - ISBN 0002117738
 * Pacific Wilderness/Wild Islands (1974) - ISBN 0919654088
 * The Mighty Mackenzie (1974) ISBN 0919654142
 * There's a Raccoon in my Parka (1977) - ISBN 0385127553
 * Love Affair with a Cougar (1978) - ISBN 0385141122
 * An Ape Came out of my Hatbox (1979) - ISBN 0771038054
 * Vanderhoof the Town that Wouldn't Wait (1979) - ISBN 0889250324
 * Gypsy in the Classroom (1980) - ISBN 0896960854
 * Tell Me, Grandmother (1985) - ISBN 0771038097
 * Northwest Territories: Canada's Last Frontier (1986) - ISBN 0969238002
 * Alaska Highway: Road to Adventure (1988) - ISBN 0969238010


 * Nunavut (1995) - ISBN 1550417606
 * Looking for the Wild (1996) - ISBN 0385250630
 * Winging It in the North (1996) - ISBN 0889821593
 * Yukon (1996) - ISBN 0822527650
 * Northwest Territories (1997) - ISBN 0516066153
 * Western Canada Travel Smart (1998) - ISBN 1566912253
 * Destination Vancouver: a Port City (1998) - ISBN 0822527871
 * Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon (2006) - ISBN 1550391569
 * The Ring: Memories of a Metis Grandmother (2010) ISBN 0981093307