Barry Penhale

Barry Lloyd Penhale is an Ontario historian and publisher.[1]

Career

Penhale has worked as a journalist and a publisher, initially working as a sports broadcaster and later working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and TVO.[2] Penhale was a pioneer of Canadian wrestling journalism writing for Wrestling as You Like It magazine, broadcasting a weekly radio show, and also a television show for Northland Wrestling.[3] Later in his career, he presented Sketches of Our Town, a television show with 32 episodes.[2]

Penhale founded Natural Heritage Books before it merged into Dundurn Press.[2] In the 1960's Penhale launched The Outdoorsman magazine.[4]

In 2019, he was awarded the 2018 Ontario Historical Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.[2] He is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, and in 2016, was given the Ontario Black History Society’s Harriet Tubman Award.[2][5]

Publications
  • A Stringerful of Memories, Highway Book Shop, 1976, ISBN 9780889541030
  • Grassroots Artisans (as editor), 1982, ISBN 0-920474-24-1[6]
  • Along the trail in Algonquin Park with Ralph Bice (editor),[7] 1982[8]
  • Canadian Wrestling Illustrated[9]

Family

Penhale was the father of Nancy Hopkins, publisher of Country Roads, Discovering Hastings County magazine. Hopkins died in 2021.[4]

References
  1. "Canadian History: Anything but Dull! | Ontario Museums". Museums Ontario. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  2. "Barry Penhale & Jane Gibson Accept OHS Lifetime Achievement Award" (PDF). Ontario Historical Society. 2019.
  3. "Pat Milosh: The Casino Kid". Maple Leaf Wrestling. April 2018. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  4. "Community mourns loss of Country Roads publisher Nancy Hopkins". Belleville Intelligencer. 11 Aug 2021.
  5. "Olympian Charmaine Crooks To Receive Ontario Black History Society Award". Pride News Magazine. 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  6. "Book Review - Grassroots Artisans". Canadian Review of Materials. Canadian Materials for Young People. March 1983. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  7. "Along the trail in Algonquin Park with Ralph Bice". George Brown College. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  8. "Ontario History 1973-1992, Section 3 - Books Reviewed" (PDF). Ontario Historical Society. 2018.
  9. "Canadian TV (Television) Wrestling Illustrated - Canada's Official Wrestling Guide, Volume I - "Whipper" Billy Watson Cover Photo". Rare Non Fiction. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
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