Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
McGillen, Leo Pete
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- Pete McGillen
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Description area
Dates of existence
[19??]-1973
History
Pete McGillen was born Percy Township, Ontario and moved to Peterborough at age seven. He began writing for the Peterborough Examiner in 1937. For the Examiner he would author sports stories, an outdoors column, supervised the annual vacation edition, and hosted a fishing program on CHEX-Radio. He would eventually become the paper's city editor. In 1949 he moved to the Toronto Telegram as their outdoors editor - a first in Canada. For his writing, he was elected to the World and Canada’s Fishing Halls of Fame and numerous State Halls of Fame in the USA. He was named Toronto’s Citizen of the Year in 1954, and wrote a book “Outdoors with Pete McGillen,”. His columns were syndicated in more than 100 newspapers in North America. He was co-founder and Past-President of the Outdoor Writers of Canada and a director and participant in many other organizations. Pete died in October 1973.