Duff Crerar was born in 1955 in the Ottawa Valley, and began his education in a one-room brick schoolhouse down the road from his parent’s apiary. His post-secondary education began at University of Waterloo and University of Western Ontario, concluding with his B.Ed. and Ph.D. at Queen’s University in 1990. The same year he moved with his family to GPRC, and has been teaching History and Native Studies, and occasionally introductory Philosophy ever since. He has travelled in France and Scotland, as well as various historic sites in the United States and Canada, and was visiting Fellow in the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Edinburgh in 1998. Along with several articles on Canadian military chaplains and the historic role of the elder in Canadian Presbyterianism, he published in 1995 the book Padres in No Man’s Land, and in 1999 co-edited the GPRC Lobstick volume of essays on the centennial of Treaty 8, Treaty 8 Revisited. Current research includes the transfer of piety and faith of Scots from their homeland to Canada in the 1800s, the role of military chaplains since the Gulf War, and the history of Grande Prairie 577 Squadron, Air Cadets.