PIERRE BERTON was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific
authors. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture
and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to
readable, historical works for youth, many of his fifty books are
Canadian classics.
Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in
Klondike mining camps during his university years. He spent four
years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the
Royal Military College in Kingston. He spent his early newspaper
career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on
any Canadian daily. He wrote columns for and was editor of
Maclean’s magazine, appeared on CBC’s public affairs program
“Close-Up” and was a permanent fixture on “Front Page Challenge”
for 39 years. He was a columnist and editor for the Toronto Star
and was a writer and host of a series of CBC programs.
Pierre Berton received over 30 literary awards including the
Governor General’s Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times),
the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the Gabrielle Léger
National Heritage Award. He received two Nellies for his work in
broadcasting, two National Newspaper awards and the National
History Society’s first award for “distinguished achievement in
popularizing Canadian history.” For his immense contribution to
Canadian literature and history, he was awarded more than a dozen
honourary degrees, was a member of the Newsman’s Hall of Fame, and
was a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Pierre Berton passed away in Toronto on November 30, 2004.
"Pierre Berton is a chronicler of the first order who has brought
photographic clarity to the great and the corrupt, to the zealots
and the dreamers associated with Canada's first great vision of
linking steel threads to the nation's fabric."
—Montreal Star
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