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Arnold, Gladys
Arnold, Gladys
Person · 1905-2002

Gladys Maria Marguerite Arnold was born in Macoun, Saskatchewan in 1905. She taught in various rural schools before joining the Regina Leader-Post in April 1930. Arnold began as an editorial assistant but was soon writing editorials, feature articles, and news stories that were picked up by other newspapers.

Seeking adventure, Arnold left her job in 1935 and traveled to Europe. Arnold began submitting freelance pieces to the Canadian Press (CP) and shortly was hired as their full-time Paris correspondent. In the next four years she reported from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy and from the Spanish border during the Spanish civil war.

Gladys Arnold was the sole Canadian correspondent in France at the outbreak of the Second World War and she covered the early days of the conflict, the so-called “phoney war”, until the German occupation of Paris in June 1940. Returning to Canada, Arnold served with the CP Bureau in Ottawa until 1941 when she left CP to help set up the Free French Information Service in Canada. After the war this service was attached to the French Embassy in Ottawa and Arnold served as its Director until her retirement in 1971.

In 1987 Arnold published her memoirs about her wartime experiences, One Woman's War: A Canadian Reporter with the Free French (Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1987). For her service to France she was named Honorary Brigadier in the French Free Forces in 1940, and Chevalier de la legion d'honneur in 1975. In 1988 the University of Regina presented her with an honorary Doctor of Laws.

Gladys Arnold died in Regina in 2002.
Bell, Charles
Person · 1916-2011

Charles Edward Bell was born in La Prairie, Manitoba in 1916 to parents E.G.W. Guy and Jean Bell. The family moved to Weyburn for a time and in 1924 settled in Regina. Charles attended elementary school at Thompson and later Central Collegiate.

Active in the sport of rowing, Charlie was a member of the Regina Boat Club and in 1935 became a Navy Cadet while working for the Canadian Farm Loan Board. He joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1938 and was called to active service in 1940. After the war he returned to Regina and rejoined the Naval Reserve and Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Queen. Bell enjoyed painting and in 1947 was hired by the Regina Leader Post as a cartoonist where he spent the next 35 years working in various editorial positions, including Associate Editor before he retired in 1982.

Charles Bell’s paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina and various private collections, he was a member of the Navel Officers Association of Canada and the Royal United Services Institute. Charles Bell passed away in January 2011.
Bonneau, Gabriel
Person · 1904-1988

Gabriel (Lucien) Bonneau (1904-1988) In February 1943, Commandant Gabriel Bonneau official took up his position as the representative in
Canada of Charles de Gaulle’s Free French (later Fighting French) resistance movement. He served in that position until January 1945 when he returned to France. Working in very delicate political circumstances, Bonneau proved himself to be an able diplomat. He was instrumental in uniting the Free French committees in Canada and in winning the support of both the Canadian government and the Canadian people for the Gaullist movement and, later, for the new French provisional government. After his return to France, Bonneau had a distinguished diplomatic career, serving first as Director for Middle- East affairs and then as French ambassador to Mexico, Sweden, Uruguay, and Switzerland. Commandant Bonneau did not have the typical background for a diplomat of the period. Born in 1904 into a modest provincial French family, Bonneau had—-as his son Michel has testified—-a difficult childhood. He took refuge in his studies and through his own efforts and determination became a schoolteacher in a suburb of Paris. Later he taught in Turkey and Persia. He became so fascinated with the Middle East that
he returned to Paris and graduated from the prestigious Ecole des Langues Orientales. He joined the French diplomatic service and was posted as a translator to Tabriz and later to Teheran. In 1934 he was appointed as attaché to the French Legation in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bonneau, his wife, and young family were still in Kabul when France fell to the German armies in June of 1940. When he heard from a British colleague on June 18, 1940 that there was a French general in London who wanted to continue the fight, Bonneau immediately sent a telegram to de Gaulle volunteering his services. However, he had to wait until a diplomat was appointed to replace him in Kabul before he could travel to the Middle East to join the Free French forces. He served as a lieutenant in the Free French unit fighting the Italians in Eritrea. He joined the diplomatic service of the Free French movement in May 1942. Meanwhile, in April 1941, his wife, Sylvie, brought their two sons to safety in Vancouver. Madame Bonneau, a former ballerina, built a successful career in Vancouver as a teacher of dance, specializing in training ballet students in the Cecchetti method. She and the children joined her husband in Ottawa in late April 1943. Together Commandant and Madame Bonneau not only convinced politicians and government officials in Ottawa of the importance of the Gaullist cause but they travelled across Canada, gaining the support of Canadians from Halifax to Vancouver. With her warmth and experience, Sylvie Bonneau contributed greatly to the success of the Gaullist cause in Canada. NOTE: The archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the archives of the Institut Charles de Gaulle in Paris are the primary source for the career of Gabriel Bonneau.
Fairbairn, Garry
Fairbairn, Garry
Person · 1947-2010

Garry Lawrence Fairbairn began his journalism career with Canadian Press in 1969. His first two years were spent covering stories in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. From 1971 to 1973, Fairbairn was posted in Ottawa and was later moved to Regina where he worked until 1976. His work in Regina received attention and he was given an international assignment spending two years in Washington, D.C. After getting married, he requested a transfer back to western Canada and in 1978 he was assigned to the Canadian Press post in Calgary which he held until 1981.

As his career progressed, people noticed his talents and he frequently garnered accolades from his colleagues. Fairbairn was instrumental in the development of the Saskatchewan Journalist’s Association. Despite his successes as a journalist, by 1981 he was restless and felt the need for a change. He entered into a competition to write a history commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. His reputation and his proposals paid off and he was awarded the commission. In 1984, From Prairie Roots: The Remarkable Story of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was published. He later joined The Western Producer, a weekly farm newspaper owned by the Pool, and worked there until 1999. He is currently retired.
Gould, Ed
Person · 1936-2001

Ed Gould was born in Alberta in 1936 and educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. Gould began writing as a reporter and editor for various newspapers, the Canadian Press, and the CBC, before establishing himself as a freelance writer. He also worked as a freelance broadcaster and publisher and co-founded his own publishing company, Cappis Press.

His writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers. In 1973 Gould was awarded the Media Club of Canada award. Between 1975 and 1988 Gould published twelve books, many of which focus specifically on Canadian subjects. In addition, Gould has written book reviews, pieces of fiction and humor, and articles that reflect his interest in travel, film, the arts and various Canadian personalities.

Ed Gould passed away in 2001.
Malling, Eric
Malling, Eric
Person · 1946-1998

Eric Malling was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, on September 4, 1946. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, and went on to the School of Journalism at Carleton University. After graduation, he worked for the Swift Current Sun and the Regina Leader-Post. In 1968 he began work for the Toronto Star and in 1974, he started doing interviews on Canada AM for CTV. Malling joined CBCs The Fifth Estate in 1976, hosting it for 14 years. In 1990 he joined W5 at CTV. This program was renamed W5 With Eric Malling. Malling won one Gemini Award and six ACTRA awards. He is the only person to have won the Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism three times.

Eric Malling died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Toronto on September 28, 1998.
Oancia, David
Oancia, David
Person · 1929-1995

Born in Stonehenge, Saskatchewan on December 6, 1929, David Oancia spent his early teens in the Yukon working in the fur trade. There he learned to speak Cree and devoted his spare time to reading.

Eventually moving back to Saskatchewan, Oancia began his journalistic career writing for the Moose Jaw Times Herald. His experience in Moose Jaw led to a position with the Leader-Post in Regina. When Oancia joined Canadian Press, a national news agency, he began working in most parts of Canada. Joining the Globe and Mail, Oancia established their Montreal bureau in 1963 before spending three years as the paper's correspondent in Beijing. From China Oancia wrote about the tumult of the cultural revolution and in 1967 received the National Newspaper Award for his work in the Far East.

Oancia went on to spend time with UN troops on the Sinai desert covering the conflict in the Middle East before a posting to London from which he travelled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa.

Returning to Montreal in 1974 as an editorialist for the Montreal Star, Oancia was awarded a Southam Fellowship for Journalists to study the social determinants of change -- a topic of importance to him since his days in China. In 1975 he was appointed director for the Journalism program at Concordia University in Montreal.
Robbins, Ronald
Robbins, Ronald
Person · 1917-2009

Ronald C. Robbins was born in Wales in 1917. He attained an Honours degree in English as well as other certificates and diplomas from technical institutes and colleges in Britain and North America. Robbins served as a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and as a reporter, desk editor, and news editor with British newspapers and the British Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Robbins spent 26 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was responsible for overseas bureaus, federal and provincial election coverage, and for coordinating staff training programs. At the same time he worked as desk editor for the Canadian Press wire in Toronto.

Robbins was appointed Director of the University of Regina School of Journalism and Communications in 1979 for a three-year term. During that time Robbins and a committee of journalists and academics arranged the curriculum for Saskatchewan's new journalism school.

Ron Robbins died in Victoria in 2009.
Russell, Nick
Russell, Nick
Person · 1938-

Before moving to Canada Nick Russell was a cub reporter on a British weekly. Subsequently, he worked in radio, TV, magazines, and for the Canadian Press. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English from McGill; Master of Arts (Medieval English) from the University of London; and a Ph.D. (Journalism Ethics) from the University of Cardiff.

In 1968 he took over the journalism program at Vancouver Community College, which he built into a thriving career program. In 1983, he moved to Regina where he taught journalism for 15 years at the School of Journalism at the University of Regina. He is well known for conducting ethics and editing workshops for working journalists and is the winner of numerous heritage awards.

Russell is interested in heritage development and the restoration of historic homes throughout the Canadian West. He is president of the Hallmark Society, speaking for heritage in Victoria's Capital Regional District where he currently lives.

Nick Russell has written Morals and the Media, Canada's first study of journalism ethics (1994; revised edition 2006); in 1999 he co-authored Page 1, an anthology of fine Canadian newspaper writing. He has also co-edited a unique collection of archeological essays with photographs, Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City’s Secrets, and is co-editor of a four-volume study of Victoria heritage homes, This Old House.
Sawatsky, John
Sawatsky, John
Person · 1948-

John Sawatsky was born in Winkler, Manitoba in 1948. A graduate of Simon Fraser University, he has taught and lectured on journalism at various universities. These include Carleton University and the University of Regina.

A former parliamentary correspondent with the Vancouver Sun, Sawatsky left daily journalism in 1979 to embark on a career as the author of several acclaimed books. His works include Men in the Shadows: The RCMP Security Service (1980), For Services Rendered: Leslie James Bennett and the RCMP Security Service (1982), Gouzenko: The Untold Story (1984), The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists (1987), and Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition (1991).

In 1976 Sawatsky received the Michener Award for meritorious public service in the field of journalism. He has received various other professional honours and awards including the Ottawa Citizen Book of the Year for The Insiders and the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award for Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition.

John Sawatsky now lives in the United States.