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Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his years as a history major at the University of British Columbia, where he also worked on the student paper "The Ubyssey". He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily, replacing editorial staff that had been called up during the Second World War.
Berton himself was conscripted into the Canadian Army under the National Resources Mobilization Act in 1942 and attended basic training in British Columbia, nominally as a reinforcement
, and research material are now held in the Pierre Berton fonds at the McMaster University Archives here.
External links.
- Pierre Berton website
- Pierre Berton Archive at McMaster University
- "Pierre Berton". "The Canadian Encyclopedia"
- CBC Archives
- Berton House Writers' Retreat
- Pierre Berton Award
- "The Story of the Klondike: Stampede for Gold – The Golden Trail" Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways
- Pierre Berton Show episode