Bruce Hutchison

William Bruce Hutchison , OC (born June 5, 1901 in Prescott , Ontario , Canada , † September 14, 1992 in Victoria , British Columbia ) was a Canadian writer and journalist .

Life

Bruce Hutchison was born in Prescott, Ontario in 1901. He completed his education in public schools in Victoria , British Columbia . He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time he began his journalistic career as a political reporter in Ottawa . Hutchison was associate editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1944 to 1950. He was also the editor of the Victoria Daily Times from 1950 to 1963, for which he had already worked as a freelancer during his high school years. In 1963 Bruce Hutchison was appointed editor-in-chief of The Vancouver Sun , for which he wrote articles until his death in 1992 at the age of 91.

Hutchinson traveled extensively in Canada during his career and was accordingly present at the 1937 Imperial Conference . Widely recognized as a leading expert on Canada's domestic policy, he was known in both Ottawa and Washington, DC . He wrote frequently on the subject of current affairs or current politics, and he also wrote short stories for The Saturday Evening Post , Collier's Weekly , Cosmopolitan , American Magazine and Liberty .

Bruce Hutchison's first book, The Unknown Country , was published in 1942. Supported by a US publisher with the intention of making the new war allies of the United States more familiar to the American public, the work was also published in Canada, so that it received good reviews on both sides of the North American border. As a result, it won the Governor General's award for creative nonfiction in 1942 .

In 1961, Hutchison was the first winner of the Award from Distinguished Journalism in the Commonwealth , presented by the Royal Society of Arts. In 1967 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada . In 1978 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

The Jack Webster Foundation created the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award in his honor to recognize a lifelong commitment to journalism for British Columbia.

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• The Unknown Country: Canada and her People . 1942
• The Hollow Men . 1944
• The Fraser . 1950
• The Incredible Canadian: A candid portrait of Mackenzie King, his works, his times, and his nation . 1952
• Canada's Lonely Neighbor . 1954
• The Struggle for the Border . 1955
• Canada: Tomorrow's Giant . 1957
• Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964 . 1964
• Macdonald to Pearson: The prime ministers of Canada - 1967
• Western Windows - 1967
• Canada: A year of the land . 1967
• The Far Side of the Street . 1976
• Uncle Percy's Wonderful Town . 1981
• The Unfinished Country . 1986
• A life in the country . 1988

Awards and nominations

• Bowater Prize .
• Governor General's Literary Award . 1942. For The Unknown Country
• Governor General's Literary Award . 1952. For The Incredible Canadian
• Governor General's Literary Award . 1957. For Canada: Tomorrow's Giant
• Maclean’s Honor Roll . 1989
• National Newspaper Award . Canadian Newspaper Association . Editorial writing. 1952
• National Newspaper Award . Canadian Newspaper Association. Editorial writing. 1957
• National Newspaper Award . Canadian Newspaper Association. Staff Corresponding. 1959
• Royal Society of Arts Award for Distinguished Journalism in the Commonwealth . 1961
• Officer of the Order of Canada . 1967
• Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize , 1986, for The Unfinished Country .
• Shortlist : Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award , 1989, for A Life In The Country
• City of Victoria Prize . 1990. Details unknown, as reported in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
• Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award . The Jack Webster Foundation. 1991.

Web links

• Bruce Hutchison Biography
• The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature Entry Bruce Hutchison (subscription required)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: W. Bruce Hutchison. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 7, 2018 .