Logo

10 Facts About Bruce Hutchison

1.

William Bruce Hutchison, was a Canadian writer and journalist.

2.

Bruce Hutchison married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time that he began his journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa.

3.

Bruce Hutchison was associate editor for The Winnipeg Free Press from 1944 to 1950.

4.

Bruce Hutchison was editor of the Victoria Daily Times from 1950 to 1963, for which he had previously worked as a high-school journalist in approximately 1918.

5.

In 1963 Bruce Hutchison was made the editorial director of The Vancouver Sun.

6.

Bruce Hutchison would write for The Vancouver Sun until his death in 1992.

7.

Bruce Hutchison travelled extensively throughout Canada during his career, and was present at the Imperial Conference of 1937.

8.

Bruce Hutchison was widely considered one of Canada's foremost experts on politics and was known in Washington, DC, as well as Ottawa.

9.

Bruce Hutchison wrote frequently on current affairs and political issues, and wrote short stories for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine and Liberty.

10.

In 1961, Bruce Hutchison was the first winner of the award from Distinguished Journalism in the Commonwealth, given by the Royal Society of Arts.