Where is peter mansbridge

Jump to navigation. Celebrated Canadian news anchor Peter Mansbridge has announced a new memoir, set to hit shelves October 5.

Canadian Geographic caught up with the former host of The National earlier this year to ask him for another mini memoir — this time about his most memorable Canadian experience. My job has taken me across the whole country, from big cities to small towns. But the area that excites me the most is the Arctic, specifically the Northwest Passage. There are mountains, vast bodies of water and an abundance of wildlife like seals, walruses and bird life.

When you are one of the lucky few who get to travel to that part of our country, you want to tell other people about it. I have always been fascinated by the mystery surrounding the voyage of the Franklin expedition. In the summer of , before the successful searches to find the two ships [in and ], I was sailing through the Northwest Passage on a Canadian icebreaker. Ninety per cent of Canada lives in the big cities or small communities in southern Canada.

Unless we go on a road trip, this small part of Canada dominates our understanding of our country. The Arctic really does change your perception of who we are as a country.

When I am there, I feel truly Canadian. Our North is such an inspiring force. View the discussion thread. The RCGS acknowledges that its offices are located on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Peoples, who have been guardians of, and in relationship with, these lands for thousands of years.

The RCGS is a registered charity. Click here to learn more. Donate and Support Geography in Canada. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society family of sites:. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He also writes about humorous moments like finding the "cure" for baldness in China and landing the role of Peter Moosebridge in Disney's Zootopia.

In this book I tell you all about those parts," Mansbridge said in a press statement. Mansbridge is one of Canada's most respected journalists. He lives in Stratford, Ont. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. His latest book, Off the Record , is a collection of anecdotes and short essays that pull back the curtain on some of the most memorable moments of his legendary broadcasting career.

So why write a memoir now? I call it a collection of anecdotes. I wrote a very successful book last year about other people called Extraordinary Canadians that I did with Mark Bulgutch. And it was a number one bestseller. And the publisher — and some competing publishers — were pushing me as they have done for a few years to do some reflection on my career. I was surprised to read in your book that your interview with Barack Obama was the first private one-on-one with a sitting U.

What would have been your opening question? And I think he would have actually played on that issue and we might have had an interesting interview. What I would have wanted to achieve was something about the fact that he and untruths have a common bond. In those early days at the radio station in Churchill, Man. Reading about that, it struck me that you were creating a niche, you were finding a voice, you were experimenting in real time.

Do you see parallels between the two? And that was one of the reasons I was able to get into it with the total lack of experience I had, because there was nobody else to do the job; nobody else wanted the job.