Jake Macdonald

Jake grew up in River Heights in Winnipeg, one of seven talented siblings raised by Peggy, a homemaker and university student and Donald, who was Chief Commissioner of the City Of Winnipeg. Jake attended St. Paul's Catholic High School and studied literature at the University of Manitoba.The celebrated Manitoba author took pleasure in the world's memorable landscapes - Canada's west coast, the Bahamian out islands, and the Pacific coast of Mexico, Northwestern Ontario rivers, lakes, granite, boreal forest, the muskies, bears, eagles, domesticated animals.One of Jake's best stories, "Norris", was about a pig raised on an island like the one where Jake had his first houseboat in the Winnipeg River during the 1970s. "Becoming" was about a man morphing into a pickerel.Jake's success was a genius for storytelling. "I like the idea of sitting on top of the water because it's like sitting on the subconscious and the fish below are stories and dreams. You go down there and try to bring them to the surface."Jake will be lovingly remembered by his partner Petra Kaufmann and her children, Rory, Lily, Theo and Julia; his daughter Caitlin MacDonald and her husband Alex Nisbet. Also Wendy MacDonald, Dawne McCance, Sally & Bert Longstaffe, Danny & Deb MacDonald, Peter & Sherry MacDonald, Mary-Kate & John Harvie, and their children to whom he was very close.