Wayne's Biography

• I was born in Toronto in my mid 70s.

• As a kid I enjoyed playing baseball and going on camping trips to Killbear Provincial Park.
• My first job was working in the same factory as my dad - errand boy, grass cutter and unfortunately bathroom cleaner.
• I went to St. Brigid's Catholic School for elementary ummmm...education.

• I then went to St. Patrick's Catholic Secondary school. A fabulous school which has recently been ranked 660/691.
• On my 16th birthday I worked my first shift at Toronto Parks and Recreation. I would stay another nine years doing that.
• I completed my undergraduate studies at Brock University, my Masters at the University of Waterloo and my Doctorate at Wilfrid Laurier University.
• As an undergrad I won the Gordon Taylor Future Researchers Award for undergraduate research, as a MA student I was the only person ever to receive multiple Statistics Canada Student Research Awards and as a PhD candidate I wonder the ISTTE Graduate Student Scholarship. 

• In 2010, I was part of the research team that won the Charles R. Goeldner Article of Excellence Award.
• Two of my post Masters jobs were working as the Tourism Development Coordinator for Chippewas of Nawash First Nations followed by holding the same position with the Walkerton Tourism Recovery Partnership (see me running a dog sled competition above).
• My first journal publication was entitled The Role of Rural Shopping in Canadian Domestic Travel Behaviour in the Journal of Vacation Marketing.
• I married Heather in 1998 (I hope I have that right).

• We adopted Robyn in January of 2002. Liam was born in 2006 followed by Erik in 2010.

• I taught for a year at the California University of PA before moving to Charleston in 2006.
• I earned tenure & promotion to Associate Professor in 2012.
• Currently, I have published over 75 pieces (journal articles, book reviews & conference proceedings) in since 2004 (flip over the the publications page to see the journal articles).