Garth cartooned for school and college newspapers, the Windsor Academy Announcer, Acadia Athenaeum and Dalhousie Gazette, and worked his way through college as a sign painter. Then, throughout a thirty year career as a general surgeon in his home town, he also pursued a career in fine art as he drew, photographed and painted the farms, covered bridges, birds and marine scenery near home, as well as at the fishing communities of Tancook Island, East Ironbound Island and Blue Rocks, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, England and Scotland, all of which are dear to him. His love affair with the sea began at age sixteen as he served in the Canadian Merchant Marine on the North Atlantic in 1945. Years later, post-graduate studies in Cancer Surgery in Britain allowed him to begin painting the countryside of England and Scotland. He has won several national and regional art awards and is represented in private art collections across Canada, the U. S. A., Britain, Germany and Russia. Well known for his community volunteer work, Garth's donated paintings have earned thousands of dollars annually for charitable organizations for four decades.
As well as his abiding interest in art, Garth has been fascinated with Ice Hockey since childhood. Following retirement in 1990 as a general surgeon in Windsor and Wolfville, he researched for five years the origin of hockey, then published a book in 1996, The Puck Starts Here, which chronicled the origin of the world's fastest and most exciting game in his home-town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. The book was a ‘national best seller' and complimented his creation of the Windsor Hockey Heritage Society in 1992, and popular Ice Hockey Museum in 1994. The web site <birthplaceofhockey.com> created by Garth and daughter Holly Hammett Vaughan is now visited by 300,000 visitors yearly.

Contact Garth

P.O. Box 100, 449 Albert St.
Windsor, N. S.,
B0N2T0

Phone :-902-798-2504
Fax :-902.798-0825