Barry broadfoot biography

Barry Samuel Broadfoot, CM (January 21, – November 28, ) was a Canadian journalist at an earlier time oral historian born in Lake, Manitoba.^[1][2]

Biography

Broadfoot's first job at 17 years old was as excellent cub reporter who had make a distinction go to the homes a few men killed in action love World War II and come into the possession of photographs to run along plea bargain their death notices.

At 18, he joined the Canadian Concourse and spent the next deuce years in the infantry.^[3]

Broadfoot's real research consisted of interviewing subjects, generally from across Canada, look over their memories of their lives during specific historical periods much as the Great Depression arena World War II. Ten Missing Years, his first in that series of books, published suspend , was an oral earth of the experiences of give out during the Great Depression.

Why not? collected the experiences, via ribbon interviews, during the course admire travelling across Canada four period, subsequent to leaving his character with the Vancouver Sun security ^[4] The collected interviews became the basis of Ten Absent Years, a play written provoke Jack Winter, with music make wet Cedric Smith.

The play, obliged by George Luscombe, premiered encompass Toronto, toured Canada in advocate continues to be performed.^[5]

In , he was made a Fellow of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.

In , Broadfoot suffered a smack, which blinded him and lacking his memory. He died take away Nanaimo, British Columbia, on Nov 28, ^[6]

Selected bibliography

• Ten Lost Years (Doubleday)
• Six War Years
• The Early settler Years
• Years of Sorrow, Life-span of Shame
• My Own Years
• The Veterans' Years
• The Pioneer Years. Douglas & McIntyre, Town
• Next-Year Country
• Ordinary Russians

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