William lishman bio
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Artist Bio
William (Bill) Lishman M.S.M., L,L,D. (hon) ( b. - )
Lishman was a world-renowned inventor and artist in many media. His works include award-winning documentary films, three books, and numerous works of public art, including a 26 meter tall sculpture for EXPO 86 in Vancouver, twenty figures for the Bridgepoint hospital in Toronto, and Canada’s largest salmon sculpture in Campbellton NB. His best selling autobiography inspired the Columbia Pictures Oscar nominated film, Fly Away Home, as well as the Jaques Perrin feature film The Winged Migration.
Bill was a pioneer in ultra-light aviation and became the first human to lead birds in the air with an aircraft. Building on that he initiated the use of ultra-light aircraft in establishing new migration routes for precocial birds.
In he published his third book, The Oak Ridges Moraine From Above and also completed a meter tall stainless steel iceberg sculpture for the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
In his later years, Bill's passion built on his pioneering work in domed earth integrated architecture and is a concept for a new form of communal living for extreme climates particularly to fit the need of the Indigenous peoples of Canada’s north.
Bill received numerous awards including the Odyssey of the
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Family and Associates
Ivy, Aaron (), Cadence, and Deagan Lishman
Involved in most of the Lishman projects over the years, Aaron is Bill and Paula&#;s oldest son. He has studied computer science at McMaster and Simon Frasier Universities and electrical engineering technology at Fleming College. Aaron is currently a Contract professor at Fleming College and an off Road instructor at Trail Tours dirtbike School, . He develops websites (including this one). A musician since a very early age, he currently plays music with a band in Peterborough Ontario and has released a solo record Man Made Machine and currently plays with Boom Bust and Echo. He, along with his wife, Ivy, and two children, Cadence and Deagan, have a small hobby farm in central Ontario. Any comments about this website can be directed to aaronlishman at
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Bill Lishman
Canadian creator, artist station flying enthusiast
William Lishman (February 12, &#;– December 30, ) was a River sculptor, producer, inventor, green and tell speaker, chairman of William Lishman & Associates Genteel, Vice Prexy of Paula Lishman Full of meaning and Stool Emeritus additional Operation Migration Inc. Described by description Toronto Star as a "dyslexic, colour-blind, wildly resourceful sculptor", subside died understandable than bend in half weeks make sure of being diagnosed with leukemia.[1]
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