Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ferguson, George Victor
Parallel form(s) of name
- G. V. Ferguson
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1897-1977
History
George Victor Ferguson was born in Cupar, Scotland on April 20, 1897. Ferguson was educated at the University of Alberta and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He served in WWI as a private soldier and joined the Manitoba Free Press in 1925, rising to managing editor under John W. Dafoe in 1933. After Dafoe's death in 1944 Ferguson became executive editor of the Free Press, but soon after left for Montréal, where he served as editor in chief of the Montreal Star. He died in Montreal, Quebec on January 26, 1977.