Wilfrid Eggleston OBE was an Anglo-Canadian journalist, author and civil servant.
14 Facts About Wilfrid Eggleston
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Wilfrid Eggleston died in Ottawa on 13 June 1986 at the age of 85.
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Wilfrid Eggleston was born on 25 March 1901 in Lincoln to English parents who had moved from Spalding two years earlier, where his older sister Margaret had been born.
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Wilfrid Eggleston's father was a former tax collector, his mother, a shop assistant and dressmaking apprentice; they had married in Grantham come 1897 after meeting as choristers in the town's Methodist chapel.
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Wilfrid Eggleston wrote under Canadian Senator William Ashbury Buchanan, whom had acquired ownership of the newspaper in 1905.
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Wilfrid Eggleston held Buchanan and his politics in high regard during his short stay at the publication.
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The outcome of the commission, supported by Wilfrid Eggleston, allowed for greater involvement in regard to unemployment insurance and pensions from the federal government.
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Wilfrid Eggleston was succeeded in the role by fellow journalist Fulgence Charpentier.
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Later in life, Wilfrid Eggleston was involved in more academic pursuits.
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Wilfrid Eggleston had received a basic teacher-training education from the Calgary Normal School, and taught for some years in the Golden Prairie School District before lecturing at Carleton University in 1947.
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The Canadian Encyclopedia claims that Wilfrid Eggleston "was considered the father of journalism education in Canada, emphasizing its roots in the liberal arts and social sciences".
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Wilfrid Eggleston was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1943 by George VI in the Birthday Honours of that year, shortly after resigning his censor post.
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Wilfrid Eggleston published a total of 17 books throughout his life; these included seven on Canadian history, five on its politics and three personal memoirs.
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Wilfrid Eggleston further published poetry anthologies in 1927, and again in 1978 with his wife Magdalena Raskeviciute, herself a noted Lithuanian-Canadian author, to commemorate their fiftieth wedding anniversary.