Elaine Cougler

Elaine’s award-winning historical novels are about the lives of settlers in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution. She used the backdrop of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Rebellion of 1837 for page-turning fictional tales where the main characters face torn loyalties, danger, and personal conflicts.

Her Loyalist trilogy is comprised of The Loyalist’s Wife, The Loyalist’s Luck and The Loyalist’s Legacy. The prequel to this series is The Loyalist’s Daughter, where 14-year-old Lucinda Harper and her father witness the dumping of tea chests into Boston’s harbour, an act which precipitates the American Revolutionary War. These four novels have been recently updated with lovely new covers and are available in print, e-book and audio book.

Elaine wrote a different kind of history in the creative non-fiction book about the last (at the time) surviving member of the Canadian Cancer Society team, Ronald G. Calhoun, who managed Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope in 1980. The Man Behind the Marathons: How Ron Calhoun Helped Terry Fox and Other Heroes Make Millions for Charity is a recipient of the Book Excellence Award and is an Amazon #1 Bestseller.

 My Story, My Song tells the fascinating tale—sometimes sweet and sometimes not—of the eldest daughter in a family of thirteen children, nine boys and four girls, growing up in the fifties and sixties in rural Ontario. The memoir shows a close and caring society in the midst of a burgeoning post war economy, and the changing world that provided them all so much opportunity.

Canada: Brave New World is Elaine’s anthology of stories from and about people who had to leave their home country and chose to come to Canada. Hear how their contributions make this country the vibrant and sought-after place to live that it is.

Maggie is a joint venture between Elaine and her mother, Alice Garner. Nearing the twenty-fifth anniversary of her mother’s death, Elaine opened the old folder of her mother’s writing and discovered not a piece of fiction but the riveting story of Maggie, Elaine’s grandmother, born in 1890. Those typed pages were not completed. Elaine prepared the book for publication, adding short sections to tie the segments together. On the anniversary of what would have been her mother’s one hundredth birthday, Elaine published this treasure of a book, complete with family photos and explanatory paragraphs.

Elaine’s writing journey has led to speaking gigs, cruises, trips, and also to her giving workshops on a variety of writing related subjects. She says you learn a lot when you embrace your dreams.

She and her husband have two grown children.