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Who is this man in the field?

• He was born in London, England and raised from age seven in Ottawa.

• He spent two years in the Royal Canadian Navy.

• One of his first jobs was working for the airline Transair in Churchill, Man. Part of his job included making announcements over the public address system.

• On the day of the 2003 blackout on the east coast of North America, he appeared on television sporting a beard.

• In 2004, a band in Sackville, N.B., used his name as part of their stage name.

• The reporter covering a big land sale near Portage la Prairie, Man., in 1971 is Peter Mansbridge. This is one of the earliest known clips in the CBC Television archive of the future chief correspondent and anchor of The National. It was never aired.

• Mansbridge was recruited to work for CBC Radio after a producer heard him making announcements in the airport in Churchill, Man in 1968. He worked in radio for three years before moving to CBC Television in Winnipeg and later in Saskatchewan. In 1976, he moved to Ottawa after being named a parliamentary correspondent for The National.

• CBC promoted Mansbridge to chief correspondent and anchor of The National. in 1988, after Knowlton Nash stepped down in a bid to keep Mansbridge from leaving Canadian journalism. Mansbridge turned down a competing offer for substantially more money from an American broadcaster to stay and take on CBC Television's top on-air news job.

• Mansbridge has won 12 Gemini Awards and has been presented with several honourary degrees from universities in Canada and the U.S.A.

Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: May 15, 1971
Guest(s): Bill Linden, Mr. Ryack
Reporter: Peter Mansbridge
Duration: 2:11

Last updated: March 28, 2013

Page consulted on March 28, 2013

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