Jonathan Crowe

Jonathan Crowe is the author of The Map Room, a popular blog about maps, and DFL, a blog about last-place finishes at the Olympics. Other recent online projects include Gartersnake.info, a website for garter snake keepers, and Snakes on Film.

Jonathan has been interviewed or featured by Agence France-Presse, the BBC World Service, the Boston Globe, CBC Newsworld, CTV Newsnet, Folha de São Paolo, the Hamilton Spectator, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Ottawa Sun, Reuters, RTÉ, Sports Illustrated and the Toronto Star, among others.

Jonathan studied European history at the universities of Winnipeg, Waterloo and Alberta, which circuitously led to stints as a reporter for a small-town weekly newspaper, a writer of briefing notes, and an editor of government regulations and ministerial correspondence.

A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Jonathan lives in Shawville, Quebec, with his partner and their many interesting animals. When not blogging, writing or correcting other people’s grammar, he raises snakes, plays the piano, and looks through his telescopes.