Taught English and history in grades 5 to 11 in public schools of Yarmouth County for 27 years.

Writer, teacher, paddler and naturalist who has been canoeing the rivers of southwestern Nova Scotia for 30 years.

Has recently published his first book on canoe routes of southwestern Nova Scotia entitled Paddling the Tobeatic.

Have paddled the Potomac River in Virginia/Maryland to the Ottawa River in Ontario/Québec, as well as the St. Croix in Maine/New Brunswick, the Dumoine and Gatineau in Québec, and 33 rivers in Nova Scotia.

Professional Writing/Photographic Interests and Expertise:
Canoeing and kayaking, wilderness, environment, conservation, natural and cultural history;
Feature articles, editorials, brochures, newsletters, biography, creative non-fiction, essays

Recent Credits
Periodicals-

Kanawa - Journal of the Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association;
“Passage to the Sea” Fall 1999; “Saved at Last” Winter 2000;
“Never Paddle Cold Stream in the Spring” River Lore Dept., Spring 2002
“Hobnobbing with Ghosts on the Silver River” Spring 2004

Canoe & Kayak
“A Nouveau Angle on Nova Scotia” October 2001

Eastern Woods & Waters
“Getting to the Bottom of Lake Beverley” December 2003

Books-
“Tobeatic: Mystique and Mystery” in More of Canada’s Best
Canoe Routes, Alister Thomas, ed.
Toronto: Boston Mills Press, 2003
“Paddling the Tobeatic: Canoe Routes of Southwestern Nova Scotia” Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2004.

Photographs-
Kanawa
Canoe & Kayak
Eastern Woods & Waters
More of Canada’s Best Canoe Routes

Biography-
“By Your Leave: the Journal of A. L. Smith, September 1969 to January 1970” (unpublished)

Film-
Film rights to “By Your Leave” sold in 1992 to Symphony Pictures Inc, Culver City, California

Writing Affiliations
Periodical Writers Association of Canada
Writers Federation of Nova Scotia

Paddling Affiliations-
Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association
Canadian Wilderness Canoeing Association
Canoe Kayak Nova Scotia
Ontario Recreational Canoeing Association
Southwest Paddlers Association (Nova Scotia)
American Canoe Association
American Whitewater

Environmental Associations-
Ecology Action Centre
Tusket River Environmental Protection Association
Nova Scotia Nature Trust

Testimonial
“Andy Smith [is] a prominent Nova Scotian paddler/writer.”
-Dusan Soudek, President, Canoe Kayak Nova Scotia; Board Member of the Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association