Selected Columns from Canadian Living

For years, a monthly article by Peter Gzowski, the host of CBC Radio’s Morningside, was one of the most popular feature in Canadian Living, one of Canada’s most popular magazines. This is a selection of those columns from the first five years: Gzowski on everything from kissing the cod in Newfoundland to playing golf on the Arctic ice; on learning to cook and losing it at pool; on gardening, diets and wines; on being a parent, a grandparent, a grandson, a friend, an occasional (and reluctant) public performer, and, as he says, “a mushroom of the electronic age.”

Former host of CBC Radio’s “Morningside,” Peter Gzowski was one of Canada’s pre-eminent journalists. He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, the winner of seven ACTRA awards, as well as the Peabody Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting – the only Canadian ever to have been given the award for work as an individual. He received many lifetime achievement awards and honorary doctorates from twelve Canadian universities, the citation for the University of Calgary describing him as “the cartographer of the Canadian soul.”

He was the author of many best-selling books, including The Game of Our Lives, his memorable work on hockey (1981), The Private Voice, his memoir from 1988, five collections of Morningside Papers, the retrospective The Morningside Years, and two collections of columns, Canadian Living, and Friends, Moments, Countryside. His most recent book, published last fall, was an anthology of his best work entitled A Peter Gzowski Reader.

Peter Gzowski passed away on Thursday, January 24, 2002.