Lyndsie Rae Bourgon, FRCGS (born 1986) is a Canadian author and oral historian based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[3] As an undergraduate at the University of King's College she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Watch, and she held internships and fellowships with CBC News, the Canadian Press, the World University Service of Canada, and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.
[13] [14] [15] Her interviews with the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc[16] influenced the community's response to the search for unmarked burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
[19][20][21] Tree Thieves examines the history of poaching and investigates timber theft in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.
[27] Tree Thieves was nominated for the PEN America/Kenneth R. Galbraith Non-Fiction Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Banff Mountain Film Festival Environmental Literature Award, the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, and received an honourable mention for the Society of Environmental Journalists Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.