Winearls, Joan

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WINEARLS, Joan

WINEARLS, Joan. Canadian, b. 1937. Genres: Art/Art history, Geography, Local history/Rural topics, Natural history, Bibliography, Illustrations. Career: University of Toronto, ON, Canada, map librarian, 1964-98, adjunct professor, faculty of library science, 1974-. Royal Ontario Museum, cocurator of exhibition, "Mapping Toronto's First Century, 1787-1884," 1983. Member of Ontario Board of Geographic Names, 1974-77. Publications: Mapping Upper Canada, 1780-1867: An Annotated Bibliography of Manuscript and Printed Maps, 1991; The Atlas as a Book, 1490 to 1900, 1993; Art on the Wing: British, American and Canadian Illustrated Bird Books form the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1999. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to periodicals. Address: 273 Erskine Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada M4P 1Z6.