David Hamilton Stouck was born in 1940 in Beamsville, Ontario and raised on a farm on the Niagara Peninsula. He was educated at McMaster University and the University of Toronto and was employed for 40 years in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. He lives with his wife, Mary-Ann, in West Vancouver. They have two children and two granddaughters. As a literary critic and biographer Stouck has explored the importance of landscape in the arts: Willa Cather?s great plains, Sinclair Ross?s Saskatchewan prairie, Ethel Wilson?s British Columbia. In his biography of Arthur Erickson he focuses on the architect?s integration of buildings with their settings: Simon Fraser University terracing a coastal mountaintop, the University of Lethbridge outlining a prairie coulee, Vancouver?s Museum of Anthropology celebrating a shoreline, and domestic homes shoring up hillsides and defining forests. As an editor and historian he has been concerned to rescue fragile documents, especially letters, and to make them part of the public record. 

January 1st, 1940 in (Age 84)