Elaine Cougler

elaineElaine loves to stand in front of complete strangers and speak to them on a variety of topics. Her award-winning historical novels are about the lives of settlers in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution. This writing journey has led to speaking gigs and also to her giving workshops on a variety of subjects. She says you learn a lot when you embrace your dreams; people seem to want to know how to do that. She can help.
She used the backdrop of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Rebellion of 1837 for page-turning fictional tales where the main characters face torn loyalties, danger, and personal conflicts. Her Loyalist trilogy is comprised of The Loyalist’s Wife, The Loyalist’s Luck and The Loyalist Legacy.
Currently, she is writing the biography of the last surviving member of the Canadian Cancer Society “inner sanctum” team, Dr. Ronald G. Calhoun, who managed Terry Fox’s run in 1980. This is a fabulous project for her. She gets to learn the inside story of how that Marathon of Hope came to be and have a part in telling the story of two Canadian icons.
She and her husband have two grown children.









The-Loyalist_s-Luck_web-4When the revolutionary war turns in favor of the Americans, John and Lucy flee. They begin again in a badly supplied British outpost
surrounded by endless trees. He is off on a secret mission for Colonel Butler leaving her behind once again. In the camp full of distrust and
hunger, word seeps out that John has gone over to the Americans and only two people will associate with Lucy–her friend, Nellie, who delights in telling her all the current gossip, and Sergeant Crawford, who refuses to clear John’s name.

