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	Pierre Berton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierre Francis Berton, CC, O.Ont, BA, D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.
		Berton himself spent four years in the army during the war, rising to the rank of Captain as an instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.
		Berton died at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto, reportedly of heart failure, at the age of 84 on November 30, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Berton (626 words)

	Pierre Berton (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierre Berton was a 19th century playwright, co-author of the play Zaza.
		Pierre Berton (1920–2004) was a Canadian author of non-fiction and a well-known television personality and journalist.
		Pierre Montan Berton (1727–1780) was a French composer and father of composer Henri Montan Berton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Berton_(disambiguation) (132 words)

	Berton, Pierre
		Berton, Pierre, journalist, historian, media personality (b at Whitehorse, YT 12 July 1920; d at Toronto, Ont 30 Nov 2004).
		Berton returned to the writing of popular history, with The Promised Land (1984), a history of the settling of the Canadian West, and his hugely successful Vimy (1986), an examination of the WWI battle in which the Canadian Corps took VIMY RIDGE in April 1917.
		Berton received 3 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARDS, the STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR, the Canadian Booksellers Award and numerous honorary degrees and was a companion of the ORDER OF CANADA.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0000707 (533 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Pierre Berton
		Berton covered Canada from coast to coast to coast with books such as Klondike (1958), his tale of the gold rush of the late 19th century that sold 150,000 copies; The National Dream (1970), about the building of the CPR and Pierre Berton's Canada: The Land and the People (1999).
		Berton did as he pleased at work, once risking termination for reading comics on the job, but saving himself from being fired by landing a hot scoop the same day.
		Berton garnered praise in the 1970s from writer Warner Troyer as "clearly Canada's best-known and most respected TV public affairs personality." In 2004, Berton was voted No. 31 on CBC's The Greatest Canadian.
	www.cbc.ca /news/obit/berton_pierre (911 words)

	Blog of Death: Pierre Berton
		Pierre Berton, an historian, television personality and obsessed storyteller, died on Nov. 30 of heart failure.
		Berton was an associate editor and daily columnist for The Toronto Star in the late-1950s when he decided to tackle the medium of television.
		Berton penned children's stories, biographical profiles, religious critiques and coffee table collections, but he was best known for chronicling Canada's past in the books "Klondike," "The National Dream" and "Pierre Berton's Canada: The Land and the People." His 50th book, "Prisoners of the North," was published in 2004.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001252.html (385 words)

	Pierre Berton: Obituary
		Beloved by Canadians, folklore readers, cryptozoologists, and skeptics, the well-known writer and broadcast journalist Pierre Berton, 84, passed away on the afternoon of November 30, 2004, in a Toronto hospital, reportedly of heart failure.
		Berton had a long and varied career, writing more than 40 books, most of which were nonfiction, with several award-winners among them.
		While recent years had seen Berton called upon to be a keynote speaker at a 2003 skeptics' gathering honoring the Amazing Randi, his early days sometimes involved his fascination with cryptozoology.
	www.lorencoleman.com /pierre_berton_obituary.html (667 words)

	Raold Amundsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pierre Berton is one of Canada’s most prolific and popular authors and an accomplished story teller.
		Berton demonstrates the romantic impetus, poor planning, and administrative bungling that was involved in many of these expeditions, especially those sponsored by the British Admiralty, and the heroism of the officers and men.
		Berton: The Navigation Foundation and the National Geographic Society have used new techniques for establishing where Peary was by examining the shadows of the photographs.
	aurora.icaap.org /talks/berton.html (4639 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Pierre Berton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Berton brings the past alive with true stories of mystery and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to the weird saga of Brother XII and his mystic cult on Vancouver Island.
		Berton even ventures a look into the future, when in 2021, Chicago and New York launch the first 22-lane highways: they are designed for a speed...
		We were, Pierre Berton reminds us, a nation in love with itself, basking in the warm glow of international applause brought on by the unexpected success of...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=2215 (1179 words)

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		Pierre was also a founding member of the Writers' Trust and purchased and funded the writers' retreat, Berton House in the Yukon.
		Berton were hosting at their Kleinburg home, I was standing alone admiring the view and festivities when he approached, called me by name and chatted for a few moments.
		Pierre immediately said it should be made from fresh apple wood, and took me out into his orchard at Kleinberg, and cut me a suitable "witching rod" from one of his blossoming apple trees.I still have that rod (now well dried of course!) sitting on my desk.
	www.writersunion.ca /berton.htm (5226 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Pierre Berton, 84, prolific writer of Canadian history
		TORONTO -- Pierre Berton, whose populist tales of Canadian history made him one of the country's best known writers and media personalities, died in a Toronto hospital yesterday.
		Berton was familiar to millions of Canadians through his trademark bow tie, fierce nationalism, and frequent television appearances.
		Berton was also well known for his sense of humor.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/12/01/pierre_berton_84_prolific_writer_of_canadian_history (344 words)

	Pierre Berton
		Pierre Berton is one of Canada's best known personalities and is arguably Canada's best-known living writer.
		Berton's first TV appearance was probably in 1952, as a panellist on Court of Opinion, soon after he arrived in Toronto from Vancouver, where he got his start as a student newspaper editor (The Ubyssey) and daily newspaper writer.
		Berton wrote the series outline and served as on-air guide to the documentary and drama segments.
	www.pierreberton.com /media.htm (517 words)

	Pierre Berton: Cdn icon and iconoclast - "On This Day" - CBC Archives
		Pierre Berton, one of Canada's best-known authors and cultural commentators, died at age 84 on Nov. 30, 2004.
		Berton was a prolific author who wrote bestsellers about Canadian history, from Klondike in 1958 to Marching as to War in 2001.
		Berton's ideas generated considerable controversy in the 1960s, starting with his 1962 book The Comfortable Pew, which accused the Anglican Church of failing to adapt to modern society.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-74-936-5468-20/that_was_then/people/pierre_berton (551 words)

	Klondike Sun - Page 2 December 14 2004
		Berton will long be remembered for his literary works depicting the life and times of historical Yukon,Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor said.
		The program, initiated by Berton, is organized in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts by the Berton House Writerís Retreat Society in Whitehorse, and the Klondike Visitorsí Association and the Dawson City Library Board in Dawson City.
		Pierre was born in Whitehorse July 12,1920 and lived in Dawson from about a year later until 1932, when the family moved to Victoria.
	www.klondikesun.com /dec_14_04/1214042.html (1103 words)

	TheStar.com - Editorial: Pierre Berton, 1920-'04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		01:00 AM Pierre Berton, who died yesterday at age 84 after a long career as an author, newspaper columnist, television and radio commentator may well be best remembered as the writer who made Canadian history fun.
		Born and raised in the Yukon, Berton never lost his love for the remote parts of Canada, although he spent most of his life in the Toronto area.
		Pierre Berton was missed when he left the Star.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1101855015251&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 (231 words)

	TheStar.com - Pierre Berton, a prolific icon remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Author and historian Pierre Berton, and his wife Janet, listen to speeches at a September rally to oppose building a road through Boyd Conservation Area, not far from their Kleinburg home.
		Berton and I were journalists, though he "an icon," as his obituaries have said, and I in the shallow end of what Pierre Trudeau unpityingly called "the regional press." We had obligations.
		Pierre Berton and I had a bond — a shared guilt, his for an incident 50 years before, and I for writing about it.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1102248073175&call_page=TS_Life&call_pageid=991479973472&call_pagepath=Life/News&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email (1306 words)

	injusticebusters 2004 > > We honour the life of Pierre Berton who always stood on the side of justice.
		Berton died of heart failure Nov. 30 in hospital at the age of 84, triggering a national outpouring in recent days that culminated in the event, A Celebration of Pierre Berton, with a who's who in Canada's cultural and literary establishment present.
		Berton's widow Janet, recovering from a broken hip, looked frail in a wheelchair but was smiling and serene as she spoke to VIP well-wishers paying their respects before the event began.
		Berton's sons and grandsons all wore bow ties in honour of Berton's famous neck attire.
	www.injusticebusters.com /04/Berton_Pierre.shtml (1694 words)

	Pierre Berton (1920-2004): A Canadian Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For all intents and purposes Berton was destined to either a life of blue collar labour or a career in the military, with an early retirement, as a full blown general or colonel.
		Pierre Berton devoted his life and story-telling skills to making Canadian history come back to life and flourish in the minds of millions.
		Pierre Berton's main writing strengths were drawn from his intense Canadian patriotism, his attention to sharp, colourful detail and a knack for a driving and riveting narrative.
	www.fwointl.com /artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=2&num=80 (895 words)

	1967 by Pierre Berton
		Berton points out that we are far better off today than we were in 1967.
		Pierre Berton received over 30 literary awards including the Governor-General’s Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Leger National Heritage Award.
		Pierre Berton passed away in Toronto on November 30, 2004.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0770427766&view=print (585 words)

	Whitehorse Star Online
		DAWSON CITY — Pierre Berton’s life and his impact on both Dawson City and individual citizens were the themes of a gathering at St. Paul’s Anglican Church on Friday afternoon.
		Berton was to maintain an association with the scouting movement all his life.
		Berton’s father, Frank, was the mining recorder here for many years, and he trained the man who became his replacement.
	www.whitehorsestar.com /auth.php?r=35945 (1175 words)

	Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca: Beloved Canadian author Pierre Berton dies
		The bow tie-loving Berton was born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon.
		Berton's first important book was The Mysterious North in 1956, followed by Klondike in 1958, a narrative of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.
		Berton is survived by his wife, Janet, his eight children and 14 grandchildren.
	sympaticomsn.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1101857330289_96?hub=topstories (567 words)

	CBC Arts: Author Pierre Berton dies at 84
		Berton wrote 50 books but was best known for his compelling, readable histories of Canada which included 1970's The National Dream and 1971's The Last Spike.
		Berton was more than prolific — at the peak of his writing powers, he would churn out as much as 15,000 words a day, including a 1,200-word daily column for the Toronto Star newspaper.
		Berton was born on July 12, 1920 in Whitehorse.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2004/11/30/Arts/PierreBerton041130.html (833 words)

	malcolm x - documents > the pierre berton interview
		PIERRE BERTON: At the time of President Kennedy's assassination, you made a speech that seemed to indicate that you were pleased that he had been assassinated.
		BERTON: Now, let me switch the subject briefly, and ask you what you mean when you say that the Black Muslims are not militant enough.
		BERTON: Now, before you left Elijah Muhammad and went to Mecca and saw the original world of Islam, you believed in complete segregation of the whites and the Negroes.
	www.malcolm-x.org /docs/int_pbert.htm (1783 words)

	Klondike Sun - Page 4 December 14 2004
		If Dawson City is a living historical community one of the reasons is that Pierre Berton has said it was so, and continued to say it on and off, as he noted in his last book, Prisoners of the North, in ìno fewer than twenty-sevenof his published works.
		On that last visit in 1998 he was already a sick man, and I watched him pull himself together, putting on his PIERRE BERTON persona for the cameras and for the folks who came to get their books signed at Maximilianís.
		Berton, he said, was a pioneer in Canadian mass culture, who had been first in our country with almost everything that we now take for granted.
	www.klondikesun.com /dec_14_04/1214044.html (1591 words)

	Go Ahead And Inhale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		TORONTO -- Pierre Berton, the man who immortalized the Klondike, is now associated with the kind of rush that has nothing to do with gold.
		Although Berton, who just launched his 50th book, dismisses his televised advice to "high" rollers as a spoof, he's serious about the message conveyed.
		Yes, Berton listens to the women around him, especially Sears, his agent Elsa Franklin, and most of all his beloved Janet, mother of his eight children (latest grandchild count: 14).
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v04/n1549/a05.html?999 (862 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - How Pierre Berton changed history
		He'll be remembered as a literary giant, but Pierre Berton's biggest contribution was in the way he portrayed the little guy, says a local academic who's writing Berton's biography.
		Berton, a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster, died this week at age 84.
		Berton purchased the home in the '90s and turned it into a retreat for writers.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/Canadiana/2004/12/02/755997.html (600 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Top Stories \| Obituary \| Remembering Pierre Berton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Berton, who died from heart failure last week at 84, spent a dizzyingly productive lifetime turning our history into marketable and often magnificent prose.
		Berton was our indispensable national mentor by popularizing our sleepy past and infusing it with the retroactive ring of authenticity.
		Berton understood better than they that history is made up of personal memories refined, a sequence of encounters between character and circumstance that requires the art of a storyteller for maximum impact.
	www.macleans.ca /topstories/obituary/article.jsp?content=20041213_94830_94830 (1016 words)

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