About: Patrick Franklin White

Patrick White (born 1981, in Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada) is a prize-winning Canadian journalist and author. White worked in his parents' publishing firm, Harbour Publishing during his high school years in Pender Harbour and attended the University of Victoria, graduating in 2003 with a BA in history followed by a masters in journalism at Columbia University in 2006. He has worked for Newsweek, The New York Post, Toro, The Walrus and currently serves as National Correspondent for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Ontario. In 2004 he published the book Mountie in Mukluks, an irreverent look at the work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Canadian Arctic during the 1930s., In 2007 he received a National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for his feature "Red Rush," published in The Walrus