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Ted Barris is an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster. For more than 40 years, his writing has regularly appeared in the national press, as well as magazines as diverse as Air Force, esprit de corps and Zoomer. He has also worked as host\/contributor for most CBC Radio network programs and on TV Ontario. And after 18 years teaching, he has just retired as a full-time professor of journalism and broadcasting at Toronto\u2019s Centennial College.<\/p>\n
Barris is the author of 18 bestselling, non-fiction books, including a series on wartime Canada: Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944 \u2026 Days of Victory: Canadians Remember 1939-1945 \u2026 Behind the Glory: Canada\u2019s Role in the Allied Air War \u2026 Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at War, 1950-1953 \u2026 Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917 \u2026 Breaking the Silence: Veterans\u2019 Untold Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
His 18th book, The Great Escape: A Canadian Story, won the 2014 Libris Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award (shared with astronaut Chris Hadfield).<\/p>\n
His writing has also been published in such anthologies as The Canadian Encyclopedia \u2026 Total Hockey: The Official NHL Encyclopedia \u2026 A History of Maple Leaf Gardens \u2026 and a volume of learned papers presented to the Canada-Korea Conference at the U of T.<\/p>\n
Barris\u2019s remaining books are: Rodeo Cowboys \u2026 Spirit of the West \u2026 Positive Power (Story of the Edmonton Oilers) \u2026 Playing Overtime (A Celebration of Oldtimers\u2019 Hockey) \u2026 Carved in Granite (125 Years of Granite Club History) \u2026 Making Music (Profiles from a Century of Canadian Music) co-authored with his father Alex Barris \u2026 and Fire Canoe, a Mark Twain-like retelling of 19th century steamboat history in Canada\u2019s West.<\/p>\n
Among the awards Ted Barris has received: the international Billboard Radio Documentary Award, the Yorkton Film Festival\u2019s Golden Sheaf, as well as numerous ACTRA nominations. He is an active member of military associations, including the RCAF Association, the Canadian Aviation Historical Society, and the Korea Veterans Association of Canada (he\u2019s an honorary member). He is a patron of the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society supporting that author\u2019s works and memory in his hometown, Uxbridge. In 2010, the town recognized Barris with its annual \u201cCitizen of the Year\u201d honours.<\/p>\n
In 2006, the 78th Fraser Highlander regiment awarded Barris its Bear Hackle Award to recognize his \u201ccontribution to the awareness and preservation of Canadian military history and traditions.\u201d In 2004, the Remembrance Service Association of Halifax recognized Barris and his military history writing with its Patriot Award. In 1993, he received the Canada 125 Medal \u201cfor service to Canada and community.\u201d In 2011, the Ontario (116th) Regiment awarded him its annual Medallion of Excellence for raising the profile of military history in Canada.<\/p>\n
In 2011, he was one of 19 civilians presented with the Minister of Veterans\u2019 Affairs Commendation. The citation reads: \u201cTed Barris has made such exemplary contributions by generously giving of himself, and so both benefiting veterans and making manifest the principle that Canada\u2019s obligation to all who have served in the cause of Peace and Freedom, must not be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2012, the Air Force Association of Canada selected Ted Barris to receive Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Medal. His citation reads, in part: “The medal \u2026 is a tangible way to recognize outstanding Canadians … who have built and continue to build this caring society and country through their service and achievements.”<\/p>\n
In 2014, during a speaking tour in the U.S., Ted addressed members of the U.S. Stalag Luft III POW Association, who recognized his work in the Great Escape book with a Certificate of Honor. The original certificate, awarded annually, will be archived in the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.<\/p>\n
This fall, HarperCollins publishing releases Barris\u2019s 19th book \u2013 Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany \u2013 about the famous 1943 attack on the Ruhr River dams that powered Nazi Germany\u2019s industrial war production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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