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W.P. Kinsella (1935-2016)
First Published: September 17th, 2016.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on May 25, 1935, William Patrick (Bill) Kinsella invoked the assisted dying provisions of Bill C-14 and died at Hope, B.C.
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on September 16, 2016. He had been a type 2 diabetic for most of his adult life.
W.P. Kinsella was born in 1935 as the son of John and Olive Kinsella. His father was a plastering contractor and he was home-schooled by his mother in a remote Alberta homestead near Darwell, 60 km.
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“I’m one of these people who woke up at age five knowing how to read and write,” he said.
His family moved into Edmonton when he was ten. He was an avid reader who developed a keen interest in baseball, although he himself was never much of a player. At age 14, he won a YMCA contest for a short story called Diamond Doom about a murder in