Item 32 - John Buchan / By John Stevenson

Mr. John A. Stevenson, noted Canadian journalist, was born in 1883 in Ayrshire, Scotland and was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Merton College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1906. He entered jornalism as an editorial contributor to the Winnipeg Free Press. From 1918 he was in Ottawa, as a correspondent of the Toronto Star. From 1926 to 1940 he had the position of Chief Canadian Correspondent of the London Times. He was an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1940 to 1946, and the Ottawa Editor for Saturday Night as well as the Canadian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian until his retirement in 1958. In his over fifty years in Canada, he gained a reputation as a journalist of skill and integrity. In 1960, he received an Honorary L.L.D. from Queen's University. He died in 1970.