Mary majka biography

By Jim Wilson

APRIL 29, 2022 — Mary Majka was one of very few famous people that I ever met and the only one I can say was a personal friend. Aside from being a remarkable naturalist, teacher, and visionary she was also a warm humanitarian who knew first-hand what it was like to be displaced by war, much the same as the people of Ukraine are experiencing now.

Mary’s life story is superbly chronicled in the book Sanctuary, written by author Deborah Carr, and published by Goose Lane Editions of Fredericton in 2010.

If you haven’t read it yet, you should. The book is still available for purchase online through Amazon.

Two paragraphs on the book’s cover summarize Mary, although her life was far richer and more complex than just a few words can convey:

“Mary Majka … one of Canada’s great pioneering environmentalists.

She is best known as a television host, a conservationist, and driving force behind the internationally acclaimed Mary’s Point Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserv