Walter Lewis

Walter Lewis maintains a the Maritime History of the Great Lakes website (http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/) and has a very broad interest in lakes history and the related sources. He has an MA in History from Queen's and has served on the editorial boards of  Fresh Water and  Northern Mariner.  He's written articles that have appeared in those journals as well as  Beaver , Ontario History ,  Horizon Canada ,  Inland Seas , the  Dictionary of Canadian Biography. These have all been related to Great Lakeshistory, particularly the relationship of the shipping industry and government, and of the business side of the
steamboat trades.

Professionally, he's a librarian.  In the last seven or so years that's mostly meant that he does web-oriented computer programming to facilitate the digital delivery of information.  The programming behind the Maritime History of the Great Lakes site has largely been
proof-of-concept work for sites like Halton Images (and a few related sites; http://images.halinet.on.ca) and the Halton Newspaper Index (http://news.halinet.on.ca).  On the library side he's spoken regularly at the Ontario Library Association as well as a range of other library conferences.  He's also a member of the steering committee for Images Canada (http://www.imagescanada.ca) and the technical committee of the Ontario Digital Library.
 
Ontario Digital Library.