Today in CBC History
On Nov. 29, 1912, broadcaster John Fisher was born in Sackville, N.B.
In 1943 John became CBC Radio’s “Roving Reporter”, travelling Canada from the Magdalen Islands to the Queen Charlottes to tell stories about the nation’s people in the three-times-a-week series John Fisher Reports. It was during this time that he got his nickname “Mr. Canada.” He died Feb. 15 1981 at age 68.
You can listen to reports from John Fisher on the CBC Digital Archives site.
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