Ernest Buckler

Who was Ernest Buckler?

Ernest Buckler, OC was a Canadian novelist and short story writer best known for his 1952 novel, The Mountain and the Valley.

Buckler was born in the village of West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, where he attended a one-room schoolhouse. He was a scholarship student at Dalhousie University, and a philosophy student at the University of Toronto. After graduation, he stayed in Toronto, working as an actuary, until 1936, when he returned to rural Nova Scotia, eventually settling on a farm in Centrelea near Bridgetown.

In 1967, he was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal and in 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.