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This biography of Gordon Sinclair is drawn from an account by J. Lyman Potts published by the Canadian Communications Foundation, an entry in the Canadian Encyclopedia penned by Bob Hesketh and an obituary published in the Toronto Star on May 18, 1984.
Gordon Sinclair was a legendary journalist, author, radio commentator and television panelist on CBC’s Front Page Challenge who until his death in 1984 was one of Canada’s most enduring celebrities. The obituary published by the Toronto Star – for which he worked he worked on and off for several decades – called him “soft-hearted, irascible, generous, rude, impulsive, sensitive, boorish, colourful, egotistical, irritating, explosive, warm and irreverent all rolled into one. He owned a Rolls Royce and a large home on the Kingsway but somehow he was always the common man.”
Born in Toronto in 1900, he began a long and often controversial journalistic career when he joined the Toronto Star in 1922. After four uneventful years, he became Women’s Editor until a series of articles on hoboes made him famous. The Star then sent him around the world (four times, no less) as a wandering reporter on a series of assignments in the late 1920s and 1930s that covered hundreds of thousands of miles, virtually all continents and al
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The Great Scot: A History of Donald Gordon 9780773593770
Table of list :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Unusual Canadian
CHAPTER 2 'Possibly a bit impetuous'
CHAPTER 3 A Push differ Maisie
CHAPTER 4 The Group of actors of Canada
CHAPTER 5 'His is representation Churchill role'
CHAPTER 6 'God bless daddy's ceiling'
CHAPTER 7 War Machine
CHAPTER 8 'Foggy shores intelligent peace'
CHAPTER 9 'He might leave now'
CHAPTER 10 'Donald Gordon, Gentleman'
CHAPTER 11 'The worst day of straighten life'
CHAPTER 12 'Dieseling Donald'
CHAPTER 13 'Breath of spring'
CHAPTER 14 Foundation Money
CHAPTER 15 Canadian National
CHAPTER 16 'Gordon must go'
CHAPTER 17 Blare Leg
CHAPTER 18 'Something object to do tackle water'
List forfeiture interviews
Notes
Index
Citation preview
The Great Scotsman A Life of
DONALD GORDON Carpenter Schuhl
McGill-queens University Tangible Montreal
©McGi11-Queen's University Pack 1979 ISBN o-9735-0349-8 Statutory deposit ordinal quarter 1979 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Design near Naoto Kondo Printed grind Canada
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Year Born: 1900
Year Died: 1984
Year of Induction: 1984
Pioneer – Member of CAB Hall of Fame
Sinclair, Gordon (1900-1984)
Until his death in 1984, the biggest name in Canadian broadcast journalism was that of Gordon Sinclair.
It was a name respected (yet sometimes reviled) by Canadians – a name revered by Americans in all fifty states and around the world.
At 22 in 1922, Gordon Sinclair appeared on the payroll of theToronto Daily Star as a reporter. After four uneventful years, he became Women’s Editor from which position he was rescued after writing a series of articles on hoboes. Duly impressed, his bosses sent him around the world (four times, no less) as a wandering reporter – a series of assignments in the late twenties and the thirties that covered 360,000 miles, through all continents, to most of the world’s countries and on all oceans except the Antarctic.
Of these adventures, he wrote four books : Footloose in India, Cannibal Quest , Loose Among the Devils and Khyber Caravan. In the early part of World War Two, “Sinc” incurred the displeasure of Canada’s senior generals and admirals, and was listed as persona non grata as a war correspondent – a ban that was never lifted.
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