Author Biography
Joe Dupuis' career in journalism spans three decades of reporting during some of the most turbulent times in Canada's history. At the start of the separatist uprisings in Quebec in the early 1960s, he was sprayed with powder from an expolsion that mained a bomb demolition expert. In 1959, he won a national newspaper award for his on-the-spot coverage of the Springhill, N.S. mine disaster. As a national journalist with the new wire agency The Canadian Press, he crossed the country and overseas staffing major events such as political and business conferences as well as the Pan American Games and the Olympics. He's crossed paths with many major world figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Charles de Gaulle, Lester Pearson, Lee Iacocca, David Rockefeller and Yuri Gagarin, man's first space traveller. He's covered prison riots, plane crashes, forest fires, political campaigns and royal tours. On one occasion, he found himself in a cold storage room with Prince Philip in a Prince Edward Island pea factory! Another time, he escaped on a river log while a forest fire nipped at his heels in central Newfoundland. Born Oct. 22, 1929, in Amherst, a small industrial town in Nova Scotia, he often chuckles about his background. I was born poor, the 13th in a family of 16, but it never slowed me down. He retired in 1987 and lives with his wife Hilda in Richmond Hill, a northern suburb of Toronto. They have two children, Tim and Kim, both married and pursuing careers.
