Peter Gzowski

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Peter John Gzowski (July 13, 1934 – January 24, 2002), also known colloquially as "Mr."

Captain Canada, a Canadian broadcaster, writer, and journalist, best known for his work on CBC radio shows This Country in the Morning and then Morningside, "Captain Canada."

Gzowski's contribution to Canadian media, according to his first biographer, must be considered in the context of efforts by a generation of Canadian nationalists to understand and articulate Canada's cultural identity.

Gzowski wrote books, hosted television shows, and served in a variety of newspapers and Maclean's magazine.

Gzowski was known for his friendly and warm interview style.

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Life and career

Gzowski was born in Toronto, Ontario, and the son of Margaret McGregor (née Young) and Harold Edward Gzowski. Sir Casimir Gzowski, a Polish nobility who became a well-known engineer in Canada, was his paternal grandfather, remembered in particular for his work on the Grand Trunk Railway and the Welland Canal. Sir Casimir Gzowski, the aide de camp of Queen Victoria - who knighted him - and briefly served as the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada when his predecessor died in office.

With Harold Gzowski leaving the marriage for a Depression-era vagabond life, the couple's parents' union soon after Gzowski's birth. Following Harold Gzowski's departure, Gzowski and his mother were helped by Harold Gzowski's family. When Gzowski was five years old, his mother married Reg Brown, a sales manager of a local textile mill, and the family moved to Galt, Ontario, in 1939.

In Galt, Gzowski had trouble succeeding in high school. During his Christmas break in Grade 11, Gzowski reconnected with his father in Toronto, who was with him for a short period of time before his father invited him to attend Ridley College boarding school in St. Catharines, Ontario, which Gzowski's father had also attended. Following the start of Gzowski's studies at Ridley College, his mother died in the summer. Gzowski's mother was 40, while Gzowski was 16.

Gzowski attended the University of Toronto but never graduated; he was later given 11 honorary degrees. He took time off to work for the Timmins Daily Press halfway through university. He edited the student newspaper The Varsity during his last year, 1956-57, at the University of T. He became the city editor of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald in 1957. He was hired by Chatham Daily News after a few months in Moose Jaw. He began working with Maclean's magazine in September 1958. He became Maclean's youngest-ever managing editor when he was 28 years old. He went to the Toronto Star in the 1960s and became the last editor of The Star Weekly newspaper until it was sold in 1968.

Radio Free Friday, 1969--1970, his first regular radio show was Radio Free Friday. He appeared on radio in the Morning in 1971 as the host of This Country in the Morning. He appeared on CBC Television from 1976 to 1978. In 1982, he returned to his old morning radio show, which had been renamed Morningside, where he remained until 1997. A few Heritage Minutes later, he narrated a few Heritage Minutes. He returned to Moose Jaw to host his last episode of Morningside at the Temple Gardens Mineral Spa Resort. In 1986, Gzowski hosted the first fundraising golf tournament for literacy, a cause that was notably important to him. The tournament has grown to include every province and territory of Canada, and has raised more than $13 million for volunteer-based literacy programs. Each year, the Peter Gzowski Award recognises a Canadian for contributions to adult literacy in Canada.

Throughout the majority of his life, Gzowski had been a heavy smoker of cigarettes, consuming up to 75 cigarettes a day. Gzowski quit smoking in 2000 by attending a rehabilitation center for people with addictions. Following a chest infection, Gzowski developed emphysema a few months after the completion of the therapy. He was largely restricted to his house by the fall of 2001, and breathing with the help of an oxygen tank. He contributed the book "How to Quit Smoking in Fifty Years or Less" to Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane and released by Greystone Books in 2001. "Out of breath" was the essay's title when it was reprinted in September 2001 by The Globe and Mail as "out of breath." He also wrote the essay "Life after smoking," which was published in 50+ magazine in June 2001 and included in A Peter Gzowski Reader, which was published by McClelland and Stewart in October, 2001. The book is a compilation of Gzowski's published works, beginning with his time as a writer for The Varsity at the University of Toronto, collected and with commentary by Gzowski. Gzowski died of emphysema in Toronto on January 24, 2002.

Jennie Lissaman, a former soldier of Brandon, Manitoba, whom he met while living in Moose Jaw and with whom he had five children (Alison, Maria, Peter, John, and Mick). He was also survived by two common-law partners, Jan Walter and Gillian Howard, who referred to him as his "Partner for Life." Gzowski, the father of a son (Robert Lawrence Perkins), was born in 1961 during an extramarital marriage.

His remains were laid in the family's grave at St. James Cemetery in Toronto following his death.

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