Canadian broadcaster

While visiting the grave of Lester Pearson at beautiful McLaren Cemetery, in Wakefield, Quebec, I wandered around the grounds and found the grave of Canadian media legend and Senator, Betty Kennedy. Her grave was tucked away near the forested area of the cemetery overlooking the Gatineau Hills. Betty was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and started […]

When I recently heard that Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) on CBC was coming to an end, it felt like a death in the family. Saturday nights gathered around the television with family and friends will never be quite the same. Hockey Night in Canada began as a Saturday-night radio broadcast in 1931 and made […]

On my walk through Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, not far from the mausoleum of department store magnate Timothy Eaton, I visited the resting place of Toronto media mogul John Allan Slaight. Radio was in his blood. The young man from Galt, Ontario began his career as a radio reporter while also working briefly as […]