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1952-1988 (Creation)
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- Oancia, David
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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.
Custodial history
These materials were transferred by the donor’s wife to the Archives and Special Collections in October 2015.
Scope and content
This collection is comprised of approximately 83 centimetres of textual material and ranges in date from 1952 to 1988. There are 141 photographs and 78 negatives.
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The Professional Activities series relates to his activities in helping to establish schools of Journalism at King’s College and other institutions. News Articles by David Oancia is the main series in this collection and consists of newspaper clippings of articles written by him, a few folders also include drafts of articles and/or research material. All newspaper clippings were photocopied for preservation purposes then discarded, the oversize scrapbook of articles was photocopied for preservation purposes and remains with the collection. The Moose Jaw Times Herald Photograph Album pages were numbered and photocopied for preservation purposes. Loose photographs were numbered
and sleeved.
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There are no access restrictions on this collection however File 38 is Closed to researchers without prior permission from the Archivist.
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December 2015 (Creation)