Pamela McColl
Canadian author
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Pamela McColl is a Canadian publishing author, best known for publishing a revised version of Twas The Night Before Christmas.
Pamela McColl | |
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| Alma mater | University of Manitoba |
| Occupations | Author, historian |
Career
She is a drug prevention and child rights advocate she has been published in the Birth Institute journal on the smoking cessation and the risks of the use of marijuana in pregnancy.[1][2] She is a director on the advisory council of the national not-for-profit corporation Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada.[3][4] In 2014 she wrote The Pied Piper of Pot: Protecting Youth From the Marijuana Industry and in 2015, she edited the book On Marijuana, a collection of essays and articles from opponents of cannabis legalisation.[5] She is the publisher of seven books, including Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn.[6]
McColl's company Grafton and Scratch Publishing published Baby and Me Tobacco Free, which she co-authored with Laurie Adams. It also published Twas The Night Before Christmas, her revised, "smoke-free" version of A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823).[7] In 2023 she wrote Twas the Night - The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem that won a silver history award by the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards. In 2024 she wrote Wondrous Mrs. Claus - A Pictorial and Literary History of the Christmas Character and What Would Mrs. Claus Do? Where There is a Wish There is a Way.