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Peter John Gzowski CC (July 13, 1934 – January 24, 2002), known colloquially as "Mr. Canada", or "Captain Canada", was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio shows This Country in the Morning and Morningside.
- Early Life, Education, and Career
- Broadcasting
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- Honours
Great-great-grandson of the engineer Sir Casimir Gzowski, he grew up in the small town of Galt, Ontario, and was shaped by the disciplined traditions of Ridley College, an elite private preparatory school in St. Catharines, Ontario, and one of the oldest private schools in Canada. As a student at the University of Toronto, he edited theVarsity and ...
Gzowski became a household name as the host of CBCRadio's lively, eclectic “This Country in the Morning” (1971–74), but his subsequent talk show on CBC-TV, “90 Minutes Live” (1976–78), was widely considered a failure. It was not until he became the CBC radio host of “Morningside” in 1982 that Gzowski became a Canadian icon. “Morningside” was a thre...
Gzowski wrote several non-fiction books, notably The Sacrament (1980) and The Game of Our Lives(1981), the latter of which incorporated his profile of Wayne Gretzky for Saturday Night, which won a National Magazine Award.His columns for Canadian Living magazine have also been collected in two successful books, Canadian Living (1993) and Friends, Mo...
Of the many honours Gzowski received late in his career, he was proudest of an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto, a Governor General's Award for the Performing Arts (1995), and being appointed Chancellor of Trent Universityin 1999, a position he held until his death in 2002. He also founded the Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf tourna...
6 de ene. de 2022 · Peter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer, editor (born 13 July 1934 in Toronto, ON; died 24 January 2002 in Toronto, ON). A Companion of the Order of Canada, winner of the international Peabody...
29 de ene. de 2002 · Peter Gzowski, author, columnist and one of the pillars of public broadcasting in Canada, has died at the age of 67. The host of CBC Radio's Morningside from 1982 to 1997, and This Country in...
1 de feb. de 2002 · Peter Gzowski, the rumpled host of a national radio program in Canada whose gentle, homey tones gave voice to a generation of Canadians searching for their national identity, died on Jan. 24 in...
14 de may. de 2019 · Escuche. Gretel Kahn, pasante en el programa Peter Gzowski del radiodifusor público CBC. Cuatro universidades participan con CBC en la adjudicación de las pasantías, tomando en cuenta la...
Year Born: 1934. Year Died: 2002. Gzowski, Peter (1934-2002) While Peter Gzowski’s bearded, bespectacled face became well-known to millions of Canadian television viewers, it was his distinctive, unmistakable voice on radio that Canadians would think of, and would always remember, when news came of his untimely death at the age of 67.
