Born in 1926, Barry Broadfoot, the journalist who became Canada's foremost oral historian with Ten Lost Years in 1973, died in Nanaimo in December. The former Vancouver Sun book page editor received the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding B.C. literary career, the Order of Canada, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Manitoba. He once described himself as the world's greatest listener.

[BCBW Summer 2004]