17 Facts About Mark Angelo

Mark Angelo, was born on 14 March 1951 and is a Canadian river conservationist, writer, speaker, teacher and paddler.

Mark Angelo founded and is the chair of BC Rivers Day and World Rivers Day.

In 2009, Angelo was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Rivers Institute at the British Columbia Institute of Technology Prior to that, he was the long-time head of the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program at BCIT.

Mark Angelo has received the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada in recognition of his river conservation efforts.

Mark Angelo graduated from the University of Montana, and then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Mark Angelo was involved in numerous river conservation and restoration initiatives including restoring heavily damaged urban streams such as Guichon Creek in Burnaby and Still Creek in Vancouver.

In September 1980, Mark Angelo organized a major cleanup of the Thompson River in the southern interior of British Columbia.

In 2005, Mark Angelo helped set up the World River Day, a now annual event on the final Sunday in September, celebrated by millions people in more than 100 countries.

Mark Angelo has traveled on hundreds of waterways, including the Zambezi, Nile, Mekong, Amazon, and Yangtze.

In late November 2011, Mark Angelo announced his retirement from full-time work and was honored with the title, Chair Emeritus of the Rivers Institute.

In 2012, the City of Burnaby honored Mark Angelo by naming a local city stream, Mark Angelo Creek, after him.

Mark Angelo was installed into the Fraser River Hall of Fame at a gala event hosted by the Fraser River Discovery Centre.

In late 2021, Mark Angelo published the acclaimed illustrated children's book, The Little Creek That Could; the story of a stream that came back to life.

Mark Angelo served as a past Chair and inaugural member of the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.

Mark Angelo was the inaugural Chair of the BC Heritage River System from 1997 to 2001, and from 1998 to 2000, Angelo was chaired the BC Park Legacy Panel.

Mark Angelo is a Fellow International member of the New York-based Explorers Club as well as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Mark Angelo is the son of Australian born actress Shirley Ann Richards, and Edmond Mark Angelo.