Peter Desbarats
Journalist, Author
1933 – 2014
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Who was Peter Desbarats?
Peter Hullett Desbarats, OC was a Canadian author, playwright and journalist. He was also the dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario, a former commissioner in the Somalia Inquiry and a former Maclean-Hunter chair of Communications Ethics at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.
Until his death from Alzheimer's disease, he lived in a heritage home with his actress wife Hazel in the East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District in London, Ontario.
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- Born
- Jul 2, 1933
Montreal - Spouses
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Western Ontario
- Lived in
- London
- Montreal
- Died
- Feb 11, 2014
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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