Jason Crummey
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Jason Crummey is a Newfoundland author and writer.
Crummey, born in Old Perlican, Trinity Bay on the northeast Coast of Newfoundland. Jason Crummey is a grandson of P.W. Crummey who was a member of the Newfoundland National Convention in 1947. P.W. Crummey visited Canada's Parliament as one of six Newfoundland government representatives to negotiate the Terms of Union between Newfoundland and Canada.
Jason Crummey graduated from Gonzaga High School and from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In his youth, Crummey was an outspoken environmental activist. He appeared on CBC Radio's Morningside discussing the North Atlantic cod fishery. He has been invited to visit the British Parliament on two separate occasions to discuss this topic: once at the invitation of Lord Stoddard of Swindon; a second time at the invitation of a Conservative Member of Parliament.
[edit] Political affiliation
Crummey believes in participatory democracy and for this reason has volunteered for several different political parties across Canada. Crummey ran for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada and made history in 2003 by becoming the first resident of the Northwest Territories to be nominated as a leadership candidate for of any federal party. Federally, Crummey has been a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the Reform Party of Canada, the Newfoundland and Labrador First Party, the Green Party of Canada and the Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party. Provincially, Crummey has been a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick, the Green Party of British Columbia, the Newfoundland and Labrador Party, the Terra Nova Green Party and the Western Arctic Green Party Association of the Northwest Territories.
[edit] Literary works
- Pirates of Newfoundland; a history and folklore of piracy in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1500 to 1729. ISBN 0-9739796-0-7
- A book review of Pirates of Newfoundland : http://www.theindependent.ca/article.asp?AID=1227&ATID=2
