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Les Stroud

January 06, 2023

Les Stroud (born October 20, 1961)[1][2][3] is a Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman. Stroud was named Chief Scout by Scouts Canada on November 22, 2021. After a short career behind the scenes in the music industry, Stroud became a full-time wilderness guide, survival instructor and musician based in Huntsville, Ontario. Stroud has produced survival-themed programming for The Outdoor Life Network, The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and YTV. The survival skills imparted from watching Stroud's television programs have been cited by several people as the reason they lived through harrowing wilderness ordeals.[4]

Les Stroud
Born (1961-10-20) October 20, 1961 (age 61)[1][2][3]
Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, musician
SpouseSusan Jamison (1994–2008)
Children2

Biography

Stroud was born in the Mimico neighbourhood of Toronto and graduated from Mimico High School.[5] He went on to complete the Music Industry Arts program at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.[6] Stroud worked for several years at the Toronto-based music video channel MuchMusic, and as a songwriter for the band New Regime before a Temagami canoe trip sparked a career change.[1] During this time he also worked as garbage collector for the City of Toronto.[3]

In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds.[3] It was also during this time while on a survival course he met his future wife, photographer Sue Jamison.[2] They married in 1994 and together left for a year-long honeymoon in the remote Wabakimi area of Ontario which was to become the basis of the documentary Snowshoes and Solitude. Afterwards, the couple moved to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories where Stroud was employed as an outdoor instructor to special needs individuals of aboriginal descent.[7] Stroud and Jamison then settled in Huntsville, Ontario where they had two children and started both the outdoor instructional outfit Wilderness Voice and the media company Wilderness Spirit Productions.[6]

Inspired by the popularity of the television show Survivor, Stroud pitched a more authentic version of the show to The Discovery Channel Canada. Stroud produced two programs titled One Week in the Wilderness and Winter in the Wilderness for @discovery.ca in 2001.[2] The success of these specials led to the development of Survivorman, a show that followed a similar format of leaving Stroud on his own, with minimal equipment, in the wilderness to videotape his survival experience.

Film and television

After his marriage to Jamison in 1994, the two of them spent one year in the Canadian wilderness to attempt a paleolithic existence. They travelled to Goldsborough Lake (50°41′55″N 89°20′46″W / 50.69861°N 89.34611°W / 50.69861; -89.34611) deep in the Wabakimi, first building a tipi then an attached A-frame while using no metal, plastic, or otherwise manufactured tools. For the first half of the year, they took a store of traditional foods such as wild rice, squash, beaver and moose meat, bear fat, and maple sugar. In late September, Stroud's friends Doug Getgood and Fred Rowe brought in food for the next six months and chopped firewood for the couple. Stroud and Jamison built and equipped a winter cabin using an axe, a modern bow saw, and a trapper's tin wood stove left by Getgood and Rowe, along with a metal pot they found.

Family and medical emergencies brought them out of the bush on three occasions. Once when Stroud's father was dying from cancer, another when they both went to be treated for giardiasis, and again when Jamison had a miscarriage. Stroud filmed their primitive living experience and released the 50 minute documentary, Snowshoes and Solitude, which was named Best Documentary at the Muskoka Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterwalker Film Festival.[8]

In 2001 Stroud produced two one-hour specials for the science news show @discovery.ca. These segments follow the same format as Survivorman with Stroud filming his own survival in the wilderness. They were originally broadcast as daily segments over the course of one week but were repackaged as two one-hour specials titled Stranded.[2] The popularity of these pilots spawned the show Survivorman. Stroud produced 23 episodes of the show which began airing in 2004.[2] Stroud also composed and performed the opening theme music of Survivorman.[9]

In 2006, Stroud produced a 90-minute special documenting his family's journey to building an off-the-grid home. The show, Off the Grid with Les Stroud, chronicled the process of buying property and refitting an old farm house with solar and wind power, a raincatcher and well, as well as the adjustments the Stroud family had to make to adapt to this style of living.[1] Stroud has made multiple television appearances including on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Larry King Live.[10]

Stroud has also hosted an episode of the Discovery channel show I Shouldn't Be Alive titled Lost In The Snow, which aired during its first season and the TV program Surviving Urban Disasters, which aired on the Science Channel and the 20th annual Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.[11]

In 2010, Stroud hosted and produced the Gemini nominated hit kids TV series Survive This and Survive This 2 (YTV, Cartoon Network) that takes teens into the wilderness to teach them how to survive by giving them some instruction and challenging them with survival scenarios. Stroud's follow-up show to Survivorman was titled Beyond Survival with Les Stroud and debuted in 2010.[12]

On April 27, 2018, National Geographic aired Stroud's Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet on their NGW channel. In 4 episodes, Stroud explores the survival methods and social structure of the Kodiak brown bear.[13]

Music

In addition to film making and wilderness survival, Stroud has also worked in the music industry as a professional musician. After graduation, Stroud worked both as an associate producer for the nascent music channel MuchMusic as well as production manager on music videos for artists such as Rush and Corey Hart.[14] During this time Stroud also played in the David Bowie cover band Diamond Dogs and played lead guitar and composed music for his band New Regime[1] which signed with RCA Records shortly after Stroud left the band.[7][15]

As frequently illustrated in his show Survivorman, Stroud is considered an exceptional blues harmonica player.[15] This instrument is featured prominently in his self-titled debut CD which has been described as "a collection of diverse roots/blues and traditional folk, acoustic music that reflects the uniquely northern spirit of freedom and adventure." Several songs off of this album can be downloaded from his official site.[15] Stroud has performed in and around the Muskoka area and at the Orillia Blues Festival and Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival.

Stroud and The Northern Pikes have struck up a musical collaboration under the name Les Stroud and the Pikes. Throughout 2005 and 2006 they performed together live several times, and an EP born from this collaboration entitled Long Walk Home was released in the spring of 2007.[7][15]

Awards

Stroud has received several accolades as a musician. He has won "Best Acoustic/Folk Act", "Best Blues Act" and "Best Overall" awards at the Spirit of the North music festival in New Liskeard, Ontario.[6][7][15]

Stroud's documentary Snowshoes and Solitude was named Best Documentary at the Muskoka Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterwalker Film Festival.[8]

Stroud was nominated for six Gemini Awards for his work on Survivorman.[16][17] In 2010, Stroud and his production team was nominated for Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series for Survive This.[18]

Personal life

Stroud has extensive experience with survival and primitive living skills, initially training with expert David Arama.[19][20] He went on to study with many others including John "Prairie Wolf" McPherson.[21]

Stroud has been an active participant in adventure racing and has competed at the Canadian championships.[19]

In late 2008, Stroud and his wife, Sue Jamison, separated.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Gwilt, Alwynne (2006-03-07). "'I am really alone'; Les Stroud, star of OLN's Survivorman, goes to the world's toughest spots, but always gets out alive". Toronto Star. pp. D2.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Fralic, Shelly (2005-09-24). "Survivor reality? Les Stroud does it without the net". Vancouver Sun. pp. F3.
  3. ^ a b c d Avery, Roberta (2008-04-19). "Living off the grid natural choice for this 'Survivorman'He will survive off land; Survivorman's quest for off-the-grid life driven by desire for independence". The Toronto Star:New in Homes. The Toronto Star. pp. H10. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
  4. ^ Goodman, Lee-Anne (April 5, 2008). "Canada's 'Survivorman' humbled to hear Manitoba man used his tips to survive". The Sudbury Star. New Glasgow News. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-04-21. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
  6. ^ a b c . Archived from the original on 2004-09-04. Retrieved 2004-09-04.
  7. ^ a b c d . Les Stroud Official Site. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  8. ^ a b Deachman, Bruce (2001-03-29). "`The best year of our lives'". Ottawa Citizen. pp. D8.
  9. ^ . Archived from the original on 2010-03-30.
  10. ^ Edwards, Trent (2008-11-26). "A Real Survivor; In an exclusive interview, Les Stroud dishes on his life as Survivorman". Calgary Herald. pp. E6.
  11. ^ Huff, Richard (2007-07-29). "Swimming with sharks". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
  12. ^ Frenette, Brad (2010-08-10). "Les Stroud to debut new show this fall". The National Post. Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
  13. ^ "Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet (TV Series 2018) - Season 1 - IMDB".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ . Paddler Magazine Online. Vol. 26, Issue 5. 2006-01-31. Archived from the original on 2006-12-10. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
  15. ^ a b c d e . Entertainment. Parry Sound North Star. 2006-03-22. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
  16. ^ "27 Gemini Nominations for Rogers Media Television Properties Citytv and OLN". Canada NewsWire. 2008-09-05. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
  17. ^ "24th Gemini Nominees". The Gemini Awards. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  18. ^ (PDF). The Gemini Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-11. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
  19. ^ a b . Les Stroud Official Site. Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
  20. ^ Frenette, Brad (2006-11-11). "Cooler heads prevail in the wild". Financial Post: Weekend. The National Post. pp. FW.3.
  21. ^ Walker, Thayer (July 2007). "Me. By Myself. For A Long Time. (Very Long.)". Outside Magazine. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
  22. ^ Jian Ghomeshi, Les Stroud (February 12, 2009). Survivorman (Les Stroud) on QTV. Toronto: CBC Radio One. Event occurs at 5:30. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
  23. ^ Brady, James (December 14, 2008). "In Step With Les Stroud". Parade. from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved 2010-08-20.

External links

  • Official website
  • Les Stroud at IMDb

January 06, 2023
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Les Stroud born October 20 1961 1 2 3 is a Canadian survival expert filmmaker and musician best known as the creator writer producer director cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman Stroud was named Chief Scout by Scouts Canada on November 22 2021 After a short career behind the scenes in the music industry Stroud became a full time wilderness guide survival instructor and musician based in Huntsville Ontario Stroud has produced survival themed programming for The Outdoor Life Network The Discovery Channel The Science Channel and YTV The survival skills imparted from watching Stroud s television programs have been cited by several people as the reason they lived through harrowing wilderness ordeals 4 Les StroudBorn 1961 10 20 October 20 1961 age 61 1 2 3 Etobicoke Ontario CanadaOccupation s Filmmaker musicianSpouseSusan Jamison 1994 2008 Children2 Contents 1 Biography 2 Film and television 3 Music 4 Awards 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External linksBiographyStroud was born in the Mimico neighbourhood of Toronto and graduated from Mimico High School 5 He went on to complete the Music Industry Arts program at Fanshawe College in London Ontario 6 Stroud worked for several years at the Toronto based music video channel MuchMusic and as a songwriter for the band New Regime before a Temagami canoe trip sparked a career change 1 During this time he also worked as garbage collector for the City of Toronto 3 In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds 3 It was also during this time while on a survival course he met his future wife photographer Sue Jamison 2 They married in 1994 and together left for a year long honeymoon in the remote Wabakimi area of Ontario which was to become the basis of the documentary Snowshoes and Solitude Afterwards the couple moved to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories where Stroud was employed as an outdoor instructor to special needs individuals of aboriginal descent 7 Stroud and Jamison then settled in Huntsville Ontario where they had two children and started both the outdoor instructional outfit Wilderness Voice and the media company Wilderness Spirit Productions 6 Inspired by the popularity of the television show Survivor Stroud pitched a more authentic version of the show to The Discovery Channel Canada Stroud produced two programs titled One Week in the Wilderness and Winter in the Wilderness for discovery ca in 2001 2 The success of these specials led to the development of Survivorman a show that followed a similar format of leaving Stroud on his own with minimal equipment in the wilderness to videotape his survival experience Film and televisionAfter his marriage to Jamison in 1994 the two of them spent one year in the Canadian wilderness to attempt a paleolithic existence They travelled to Goldsborough Lake 50 41 55 N 89 20 46 W 50 69861 N 89 34611 W 50 69861 89 34611 deep in the Wabakimi first building a tipi then an attached A frame while using no metal plastic or otherwise manufactured tools For the first half of the year they took a store of traditional foods such as wild rice squash beaver and moose meat bear fat and maple sugar In late September Stroud s friends Doug Getgood and Fred Rowe brought in food for the next six months and chopped firewood for the couple Stroud and Jamison built and equipped a winter cabin using an axe a modern bow saw and a trapper s tin wood stove left by Getgood and Rowe along with a metal pot they found Family and medical emergencies brought them out of the bush on three occasions Once when Stroud s father was dying from cancer another when they both went to be treated for giardiasis and again when Jamison had a miscarriage Stroud filmed their primitive living experience and released the 50 minute documentary Snowshoes and Solitude which was named Best Documentary at the Muskoka Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterwalker Film Festival 8 In 2001 Stroud produced two one hour specials for the science news show discovery ca These segments follow the same format as Survivorman with Stroud filming his own survival in the wilderness They were originally broadcast as daily segments over the course of one week but were repackaged as two one hour specials titled Stranded 2 The popularity of these pilots spawned the show Survivorman Stroud produced 23 episodes of the show which began airing in 2004 2 Stroud also composed and performed the opening theme music of Survivorman 9 In 2006 Stroud produced a 90 minute special documenting his family s journey to building an off the grid home The show Off the Grid with Les Stroud chronicled the process of buying property and refitting an old farm house with solar and wind power a raincatcher and well as well as the adjustments the Stroud family had to make to adapt to this style of living 1 Stroud has made multiple television appearances including on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson The View The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Larry King Live 10 Stroud has also hosted an episode of the Discovery channel show I Shouldn t Be Alive titled Lost In The Snow which aired during its first season and the TV program Surviving Urban Disasters which aired on the Science Channel and the 20th annual Shark Week on the Discovery Channel 11 In 2010 Stroud hosted and produced the Gemini nominated hit kids TV series Survive This and Survive This 2 YTV Cartoon Network that takes teens into the wilderness to teach them how to survive by giving them some instruction and challenging them with survival scenarios Stroud s follow up show to Survivorman was titled Beyond Survival with Les Stroud and debuted in 2010 12 On April 27 2018 National Geographic aired Stroud s Alaska s Grizzly Gauntlet on their NGW channel In 4 episodes Stroud explores the survival methods and social structure of the Kodiak brown bear 13 MusicIn addition to film making and wilderness survival Stroud has also worked in the music industry as a professional musician After graduation Stroud worked both as an associate producer for the nascent music channel MuchMusic as well as production manager on music videos for artists such as Rush and Corey Hart 14 During this time Stroud also played in the David Bowie cover band Diamond Dogs and played lead guitar and composed music for his band New Regime 1 which signed with RCA Records shortly after Stroud left the band 7 15 As frequently illustrated in his show Survivorman Stroud is considered an exceptional blues harmonica player 15 This instrument is featured prominently in his self titled debut CD which has been described as a collection of diverse roots blues and traditional folk acoustic music that reflects the uniquely northern spirit of freedom and adventure Several songs off of this album can be downloaded from his official site 15 Stroud has performed in and around the Muskoka area and at the Orillia Blues Festival and Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival Stroud and The Northern Pikes have struck up a musical collaboration under the name Les Stroud and the Pikes Throughout 2005 and 2006 they performed together live several times and an EP born from this collaboration entitled Long Walk Home was released in the spring of 2007 7 15 AwardsStroud has received several accolades as a musician He has won Best Acoustic Folk Act Best Blues Act and Best Overall awards at the Spirit of the North music festival in New Liskeard Ontario 6 7 15 Stroud s documentary Snowshoes and Solitude was named Best Documentary at the Muskoka Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterwalker Film Festival 8 Stroud was nominated for six Gemini Awards for his work on Survivorman 16 17 In 2010 Stroud and his production team was nominated for Best Children s or Youth Non Fiction Program or Series for Survive This 18 Personal lifeStroud has extensive experience with survival and primitive living skills initially training with expert David Arama 19 20 He went on to study with many others including John Prairie Wolf McPherson 21 Stroud has been an active participant in adventure racing and has competed at the Canadian championships 19 In late 2008 Stroud and his wife Sue Jamison separated 22 23 References a b c d e Gwilt Alwynne 2006 03 07 I am really alone Les Stroud star of OLN s Survivorman goes to the world s toughest spots but always gets out alive Toronto Star pp D2 a b c d e f Fralic Shelly 2005 09 24 Survivor reality Les Stroud does it without the net Vancouver Sun pp F3 a b c d Avery Roberta 2008 04 19 Living off the grid natural choice for this Survivorman He will survive off land Survivorman s quest for off the grid life driven by desire for independence The Toronto Star New in Homes The Toronto Star pp H10 Retrieved 2008 09 11 Goodman Lee Anne April 5 2008 Canada s Survivorman humbled to hear Manitoba man used his tips to survive The Sudbury Star New Glasgow News Retrieved 2012 09 03 Mimico Yearbook 1980 Archived from the original on 2012 04 21 Retrieved 2009 01 07 a b c Les Stroud website Bio Archived from the original on 2004 09 04 Retrieved 2004 09 04 a b c d Les Stroud Music Les Stroud Official Site Archived from the original on 2008 06 11 Retrieved 2008 06 11 a b Deachman Bruce 2001 03 29 The best year of our lives Ottawa Citizen pp D8 Survivorman Official Website Credits Archived from the original on 2010 03 30 Edwards Trent 2008 11 26 A Real Survivor In an exclusive interview Les Stroud dishes on his life as Survivorman Calgary Herald pp E6 Huff Richard 2007 07 29 Swimming with sharks New York Daily News Retrieved 2009 01 02 Frenette Brad 2010 08 10 Les Stroud to debut new show this fall The National Post Archived from the original on 2012 07 07 Retrieved 2010 08 19 Alaska s Grizzly Gauntlet TV Series 2018 Season 1 IMDB a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Survivorman Les Stroud Paddler Magazine Online Vol 26 Issue 5 2006 01 31 Archived from the original on 2006 12 10 Retrieved 2007 01 05 a b c d e Survivorman a catch for the Northern Pikes Entertainment Parry Sound North Star 2006 03 22 Archived from the original on 2007 09 28 Retrieved 2007 01 05 27 Gemini Nominations for Rogers Media Television Properties Citytv and OLN Canada NewsWire 2008 09 05 Retrieved 2008 09 11 24th Gemini Nominees The Gemini Awards Retrieved 2009 08 26 25th Gemini Nominees PDF The Gemini Awards Archived from the original PDF on 2010 10 11 Retrieved 2010 09 23 a b Les Stroud FAQ Les Stroud Official Site Archived from the original on 2008 07 04 Retrieved 2008 07 04 Frenette Brad 2006 11 11 Cooler heads prevail in the wild Financial Post Weekend The National Post pp FW 3 Walker Thayer July 2007 Me By Myself For A Long Time Very Long Outside Magazine Retrieved 2007 09 25 Jian Ghomeshi Les Stroud February 12 2009 Survivorman Les Stroud on QTV Toronto CBC Radio One Event occurs at 5 30 Retrieved 2010 08 19 Brady James December 14 2008 In Step With Les Stroud Parade 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