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Les Stroud Biography

Les Stroud is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on October 20, 1961 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. Canadian survival expert, Survivorman was hosted by him on the Outdoor Life Network, Science Channel and Discovery Channel. He produced a documentary film, Snowshoes and Solitude, which was awarded an Emmy.

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In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds. It was also during this time while on a survival course he met his future wife, photographer Sue Jamison. They married in 1994 and together left for a year-long honeymoon in the remote Wabakimi area of Ontario which was to become the basis of the documentary Snowshoes and Solitude. Afterwards, the couple moved to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories where Stroud was employed as an outdoor instructor to special needs individuals of aboriginal descent. Stroud and Jamison then settled in Huntsville, Ontario where they had two children and started both the outdoor instructional outfit Wilderness Voice and the media company Wilderness Spirit Productions.

After his marriage to Jamison in 1994, the two of them spent one year in the Canadian wilderness to attempt a paleolithic existence. They travelled to Goldsborough Lake (50°41′55″N 89°20′46″W  /  50.69861°N 89.34611°W  / 50.69861; -89.34611 ) deep in the Wabakimi, first building a tipi then an attached A-frame while using no metal, plastic, or otherwise manufactured tools. For the first half of the year, they took a store of traditional foods such as wild rice, squash, beaver and moose meat, bear fat, and maple sugar. In late September, Stroud’s friends Doug Getgood and Fred Rowe brought in food for the next six months and chopped firewood for the couple. Stroud and Jamison built and equipped a winter cabin using an axe, a modern bow saw, and a trapper’s tin wood stove left by Getgood and Rowe, along with a metal pot they found.

From 1994 to 2008, he was married to Susan Jamison; they had two children.

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Inspired by the popularity of the television show Survivor, Stroud pitched a more authentic version of the show to The Discovery Channel Canada. Stroud produced two programs titled One Week in the Wilderness and Winter in the Wilderness for @discovery.ca in 2001. The success of these specials led to the development of Survivorman, a show that followed a similar format of leaving Stroud on his own, with minimal equipment, in the wilderness to videotape his survival experience.

Les Stroud Net Worth

Les Stroud is one of the richest TV Show Host from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Les Stroud's net worth $5.5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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Les Stroud (born October 20, 1961) is a Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman. After a short career behind the scenes in the music industry, Stroud became a full-time wilderness guide, survival instructor and musician based in Huntsville, Ontario. Stroud has produced survival-themed programming for The Outdoor Life Network, The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and YTV. The survival skills imparted from watching Stroud’s television programs have been cited by several people as the reason they lived through harrowing wilderness ordeals.

Stroud and The Northern Pikes have struck up a musical collaboration under the name Les Stroud and the Pikes. Throughout 2005 and 2006 they performed together live several times, and an EP born from this collaboration entitled Long Walk Home that was released in the spring of 2007.

In 2006, Stroud produced a 90-minute special documenting his family’s journey to building an off-the-grid home. The show, Off the Grid with Les Stroud, chronicled the process of buying property and refitting an old farm house with solar and wind power, a raincatcher and well, as well as the adjustments the Stroud family had to make to adapt to this style of living. Stroud has made multiple television appearances including on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Larry King Live.

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In 2001 Stroud produced two one-hour specials for the science news show @discovery.ca. These segments follow the same format as Survivorman with Stroud filming his own survival in the wilderness. They were originally broadcast as daily segments over the course of one week but were repackaged as two one-hour specials titled Stranded. The popularity of these pilots spawned the show Survivorman. Stroud produced 23 episodes of the show which began airing in 2004. Stroud also composed and performed the opening theme music of Survivorman.

Stroud was nominated for six Gemini Awards for his work on Survivorman. In 2010, Stroud and his production team was nominated for Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series for Survive This.

Who is Les Stroud Dating?

According to our records, Les Stroud married to Susan Jamison . As of December 1, 2023, Les Stroud’s is not dating anyone.

In late 2008, Stroud and his wife, Sue Jamison, separated.

Facts & Trivia

Les Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Les Stroud celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.

In 2010, Stroud hosted and produced the Gemini nominated hit kids TV series Survive This and Survive This 2 (YTV, Cartoon Network) that takes teens into the wilderness to teach them how to survive by giving them some instruction and challenging them with survival scenarios. Stroud’s follow-up show to Survivorman was titled Beyond Survival with Les Stroud and debuted in 2010.

Is Les Stroud rich?

Les Stroud is a Canadian musician, filmmaker and survival expert who has a net worth of $5.5 million.

Who is Stroud's wife?

Susan Jamison

Where is Les Stroud from?

Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada

How old is Les Stroud Survivorman?

60 years (October 20, 1961)

Why did survivorman get Cancelled?

Stroud paused the Survivorman series after the third season due to what he described as the significant physical toll of videotaping each episode. As of 2012, reruns from the first three seasons are still broadcast on OLN and Discovery.

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