Canadian writer and journalist (1901– 1992)
William Bruce Hutchison
Born (1901-06-05 ) 5 June 1901Died 14 September 1992(1992-09-14) (aged 91) Occupation(s) author and journalist
William Bruce Hutchison , OC (5 June 1901– 14 September 1992) was a Canadian writer and journalist.
Born in Prescott , Ontario , Canada, Hutchison was educated in public schools in Victoria, British Columbia . He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time that he began his journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa . He was associate editor for The Winnipeg Free Press from 1944 to 1950. Hutchison was also editor of the Victoria Daily Times from 1950 to 1963, for which he had previously worked as a high-school journalist in approximately 1918. In 1963 Hutchison was made the editorial director of The Vancouver Sun . Hutchison would write for The Vancouver Sun until his death in 1992.
He travelled extensively throughout Canada during his career, and was present at the Imperial Conference of 1937. He was widely considered one of Canada's foremost experts on politics and was known in Washington, D.C. , as well as Ottawa. He wrote frequently on the subject of current affairs and politics, and also wrote short stories for The Saturday Evening Post , Collier's Weekly , Cosmopolitan , The American Magazine and Liberty .
Hutchison's first book, The Unknown Country , was published in 1942. Commissioned by a U.S. publisher with the intention of making America's new wartime ally better known to the American public, The Unknown Country was also published in Canada, and enjoyed favourable reviews on both sides of the border. It went on to win the 1942 Governor General's award for creative nonfiction.
In 1961, Hutchison was the first winner of the award from Distinguished Journalism in the Commonwealth, given by the Royal Society of Arts . In 1967 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada .
The Jack Webster Foundation created the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award to recognize people making a lifetime of contribution to the field of journalism in British Columbia.
Bowater Prize - Details unknown, as reported in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award - The Jack Webster Foundation - 1991 - First recipient; continued in Hutchison's name
City of Victoria Prize - 1990 - Details unknown, as reported in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
Governor General's Literary Award - 1942 - For The Unknown Country
Governor General's Literary Award - 1952 - For The Incredible Canadian
Governor General's Literary Award - 1957 - For Canada: Tomorrow's Giant
Maclean's Honour Roll - 1989
National Newspaper Award - Canadian Newspaper Association - Editorial Writing - 1952
National Newspaper Award - Canadian Newspaper Association - Editorial Writing - 1957
National Newspaper Award - Canadian Newspaper Association - Staff Corresponding - 1959
Officer of the Order of Canada - Appointed 1967
Royal Society of Arts Award for Distinguished Journalism in the Commonwealth - 1961
The Unknown Country: Canada and her People - 1942 (winner of a Governor General's Award )
The Hollow Men - 1944
The Fraser - 1950
The Incredible Canadian: A candid portrait of Mackenzie King, his works, his times, and his nation - 1952 (winner of a Governor General's Award )
Canada's Lonely Neighbour - 1954
The Struggle for the Border - 1955
Canada: Tomorrow's Giant - 1957 (winner of a Governor General's Award )
Mr. Prime Minister 1867–1964 - 1964
Macdonald to Pearson: The prime ministers of Canada (Condensation of Mr. Prime Minister ) - 1967
Western Windows (Variant titles referenced; confirmed Western Windows in 1967 edition) - 1967
Canada: A year of the land - 1967
The Far Side of the Street - Autobiography - 1976
Uncle Percy's Wonderful Town - 1981
A Life in the Country - 1988
1930s 1940s
J. F. C. Wright , Slava Bohu (1940)
Emily Carr , Klee Wyck (1941)
Bruce Hutchison , The Unknown Country (1942)
Edgar McInnis , The Unguarded Frontier (1942)
E. K. Brown , On Canadian Poetry (1943)
John Robins , The Incomplete Anglers (1943)
Dorothy Duncan , Partner in Three Worlds (1944)
Edgar McInnis , The War: Fourth Year (1944)
Ross Munro , Gauntlet to Overlord (1945)
Evelyn M. Richardson , We Keep a Light (1945)
Frederick Phillip Grove , In Search of Myself (1946)
Arthur R. M. Lower , Colony to Nation (1946)
William Sclater , Haida (1947)
Robert MacGregor Dawson , The Government of Canada (1947)
Thomas Head Raddall , Halifax, Warden of the North (1948)
C. P. Stacey , The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1948)
Hugh MacLennan , Cross-country (1949)
Robert MacGregor Dawson , Democratic Government in Canada (1949)
1950s
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell , The Saskatchewan (1950)
W. L. Morton , The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)
Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada (1951)
Josephine Phelan , The Ardent Exile (1951)
Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician (1952)
Bruce Hutchison , The Incredible Canadian (1952)
J. M. S. Careless , Canada, A Story of Challenge (1953)
N. J. Berrill , Sex and the Nature of Things (1953)
Hugh MacLennan , Thirty and Three (1954)
Arthur R. M. Lower , This Most Famous Stream (1954)
N. J. Berrill , Man's Emerging Mind (1955)
Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)
Pierre Berton , The Mysterious North (1956)
Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
Thomas H. Raddall , The Path of Destiny (1957)
Bruce Hutchison , Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)
Pierre Berton , Klondike (1958)
Joyce Hemlow , The History of Fanny Burney (1958)
[No award] (1959)
1960s 1970s
[No award] (1970)
Pierre Berton , The Last Spike (1971)
[No award] (1972)
Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land (1973)
Charles Ritchie , The Siren Years (1974)
Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson , Hallowed Walls (1975)
Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (1976)
F. R. Scott , Essays on the Constitution (1977)
Roger Caron , Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978)
Maria Tippett , Emily Carr (1979)
Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn , C.D. Howe (1979)
Larry Pratt and John Richards , Prairie Capitalism (1979)
1980s
Jeffrey Simpson , Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)
George Calef , Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)
Christopher Moore , Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town (1982)
Jeffery Williams , Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General (1983)
Sandra Gwyn , The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)
Ramsay Cook , The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (1985)
Northrop Frye , Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)
Michael Ignatieff , The Russian Album (1987)
Anne Collins , In the Sleep Room (1988)
Robert Calder , Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989)
1990s
Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall , Trudeau and Our Times (1990)
Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (1991)
Maggie Siggins , Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)
Karen Connelly , Touch the Dragon (1993)
John Livingston , Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)
Rosemary Sullivan , Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)
John Ralston Saul , The Unconscious Civilization (1996)
Rachel Manley , Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1997)
David Adams Richards , Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998)
Marq de Villiers , Water (1999)
2000s
Nega Mezlekia , Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)
Thomas Homer-Dixon , The Ingenuity Gap (2001)
Andrew Nikiforuk , Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (2002)
Margaret MacMillan , Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2003)
Roméo Dallaire , Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2004)
John Vaillant , The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed (2005)
Ross King , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)
Karolyn Smardz Frost , I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007)
Christie Blatchford , Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008)
M. G. Vassanji , A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009)
2010s
Allan Casey , Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (2010)
Charles Foran , Mordecai: The Life and Times (2011)
Ross King , Leonardo and the Last Supper (2012)
Sandra Djwa , Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2013)
Michael John Harris , The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (2014)
Mark L. Winston , Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)
Bill Waiser , A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)
Graeme Wood , The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (2017)
Darrel J. McLeod , Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age' (2018)
Don Gillmor , To the River: Losing My Brother (2019)
2020s
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