22 Facts About Ted Byfield

Edward Bartlett Byfield was a Canadian conservative teacher, journalist, historian, and publisher.

Ted Byfield co-founded Saint John's Cathedral Boys' School and Saint John's School of Alberta, started the Alberta Report, BC Report and Western Report newsmagazines, and published two 12-volume history book series, Alberta In the 20th Century and The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years.

Ted Byfield was born into a Unitarian family in Toronto, Ontario, in 1928 as the son of Caroline and Vernon "Vern" Ted Byfield, a reporter for the Toronto Telegram and Toronto Star.

Ted Byfield began his journalism career as a copy boy for the Washington Post.

Ted Byfield returned to Canada in 1948 and worked at the Ottawa Journal and Timmins Daily Press and married Virginia Byfield.

In 1952, the Byfields moved from Toronto with their two children under two, to Winnipeg where Ted Byfield began working at the Winnipeg Free Press.

Once his man was in power Ted Byfield made great use of his favored status.

Ted Byfield taught history which required that students read copiously from Thomas Costain to Francis Parkman.

Ted Byfield has two legs, and those are the two legs that are going to carry him.

In 1973, along with about a dozen St John's Alberta school staff, Ted Byfield first began publishing St John's Edmonton Report from a new building extension of the Genesee, Alberta school.

Ted Byfield dared suggest "western separatism", emulating the province of Quebec's threats.

Ted Byfield's newsmagazine had an Achilles heal, in that it depended on getting its magazines delivered every week by Canada Post.

Never one to accept failure, Ted Byfield quickly came up with a response: the Alberta Report Postal Emergency Service.

Ted Byfield advocated that the Senate of Canada be reformed to what he termed a Triple-E chamber of parliament.

Vincent Ted Byfield, who had worked at the magazines from the start as a boy at age eight in 1973 and went on to manage BC Report in 1989, left in 1996.

Ted Byfield has written a number of books beginning in 1965 with Just Think Mr Berton.

In 1983 a collection of Ted Byfield columns was published as The Deplorable Unrest in the Colonies.

In 1984, frustrated with inaccurate existing roadmaps, Byfield assembled the Atlas of Alberta, a 160-page hardbound compilation of both historical and modern highway and city maps, including every urban center in the province with a population of 5,000 or more.

In 2013, with The Christians completed, Byfield turned his focus to increasing the influence of SEARCH by introducing an online journal with current interest topics.

Ted Byfield served as president and chairman of SEARCH from 2007 until his death in 2021, whereupon his son Vincent, who had managed SEARCH since 2011, took over.

Ted Byfield won Canada's National Newspaper Award in 1957 for Breaking News.

Ted Byfield died at his home on 23 December 2021, at the age of 93.