Douglas George How (b. 1919-d. 2001) was a Canadian journalist and author. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba he moved as a boy with his family to Dorchester, New Brunswick where he grew up. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population Dorchester (2006 population 1119 is a Canadian village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. At the age of 18, he became a reporter for the Moncton Daily Times and in 1940 he joined the Canadian Press service in Halifax, sending dispatches across the country with the dateline "from an East Coast Canadian Port" to suit the censors at the start of World War II. The Times & Transcript is New Brunswick 's largest circulation daily newspaper with an average daily readership of approximately 40000 The Canadian Press (often abbreviated as CP) is Canada 's national News agency established in 1917 as a vehicle to permit Canadian newspapers of the day [1] He enlisted with the Cape Breton Highlanders and was posted to Surrey, England in 1942. The Cape Breton Highlanders was an Infantry Regiment of the Canadian Army. In 1943, he was reposted to London to work in public relations for the army. Finding this work unrewarding, he rejoined CP as a war correspondent and for the rest of the war, he reported on Canadian troops in England and Europe, following the Canadian push through Italy and Greece.
He moved to Ottawa when the war ended and served as a reporter in the Parliamentary Press Gallery for CP between 1945 and 1953. He then worked briefly as a freelance writer in Nova Scotia, and between 1955 and 1957, he was the executive assistant to the Nova Scotia Member of Parliament Robert Winters while Winters was federal Minister of Public Works. Robert Henry Winters, PC, MSc, LLD ( August 18, 1910 &ndash October 10, 1969) was a Canadian politician He then joined the staff of Time magazine, working on assignments in Toronto, Ottawa and New York. In 1959, he accepted a position as managing editor for the Canadian edition of Reader's Digest, which he held for the next decade. Reader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family Magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace.
How is the author of several books, including the regimental history of the 8th Canadian Hussars (1964), Canada's Mystery Man of High Finance, about Izaak Walton Killam, and KC (co-authored with Ralph Costello), a biography of New Brunswick industrialist K. C. Irving. The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s is the longest serving armoured Regiment in the Canadian Army. Izaak Walton Killam ( July 23, 1885 in Yarmouth Nova Scotia &ndash August 5, 1955 in Grand-Cascapedia Quebec) was one Kenneth Colin Irving OC, ONB ( March 14, 1899 - December 13, 1992) also known as K
Late in his life, he obtained a long-coveted degree in arts from Mount Allison University. Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MTA) is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university situated in Sackville He served as the director of the university extension services for some time before moving to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, where he completed several books. For the parish in New Brunswick with the same name see St Andrews New Brunswick (parish. At age 83, he succumbed to heart failure in July 2001.
Publications
- The 8th Hussars: A History of the Regiment (1964) Maritime Publishing
- The Canadians at War 1939-45 (3 volumes), (1969, editor-in-chief) Montreal: Reader’s Digest
- Canada's Mystery Man of High Finance: the story of Izaak Walton Killam and his glittering wife Dorothy (1986) Hantsport: Lancelot Press.
- Night of the Caribou (1988) Hantsport: Lancelot Press
- K. C. : the biography of K. C. Irving (1993, with Ralph Costello) Toronto: Key Porter Books
- Blow Up the Trumpet in the New Moon (1993)
- One Village One War (1995) Hantsport: Lancelot Press
References and further reading
Notes
- ^ One Village One War, p. 172
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