Canadian journalist and essayist Peter C. Newman died on Thursday at the age of 94.
His wife, Alvy Newman, said Mr. Newman died Thursday morning in Belleville, Ont.
During his decades-long career, Peter C. Newman was editor of the Toronto Star newspaper and Maclean’s magazine, where he covered Canadian politics and affairs. In 1953 he was the first editor-in-chief of the Financial Post in its Montreal office for three years.
Mr. Newman, often recognizable by his sailor cap, also wrote around twenty essays.
Peter C. Newman was born in Vienna in 1929 and came to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee.
The Writers’ Trust of Canada said his 1963 essay “Renegade in Power” about the Diefenbaker years “revolutionized Canadian political journalism with its controversial, insider approach.”
He also wrote “The Bronfman Dynasty” (1979), then a history of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Mr. Newman was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1978 and promoted to Companion in 1990, hailed as a “chronicler of the past and interpreter of the present.”
The governor general’s website says Mr. Newman “captures the popular imagination with his stories and biographies that recall the people, places and events that shaped Canada.”
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