About Gary May
After graduating from Carleton's Journalism program in 1974, Gary began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator.
The next year, he went to work for the London Free Press. Over the next dozen years, he reported on a variety of topics and spent seven years covering politics, first in Toronto at Queen's Park and then on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
It was an exciting time to be in Ottawa, with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's campaign to give Canada its own Constitution, his international peace bid and then his retirement, which led to two nail-biting party leadership campaigns and the rise of Brian Mulroney.
Gary spent the following few years as assignment editor, then city editor and, finally, editorial pages editor for The Free Press.
After leaving the Free Press in 1997, he wrote the book, Hard Oiler! The Story of Early Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad. The book was published in 1998 by Dundurn Press and won the Petroleum History Society's Book of the Year award.
During that time, Gary slowly gravitated back to his first love - writing - and produced many feature articles for various sections of the Citizen and other CanWest newspapers across Canada. He combined his love of travel and photography and began to specialize in travel, food and entertainment-related stories, often using his own photographs to accompany his articles.
In 2007, Gary left the Citizen to begin a new career as a full-time freelance writer, researcher and photographer. Today he and his wife, Linda, live on the shores of Lake Erie in Leamington, Ontario.
Besides producing commissioned books, his writing and photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers across Canada and the United States.
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