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Greg Clark (journalist)
Gregory Clark, OC OBE MC (September 25, 1892 – February 3, 1977) was a Canadian war veteran, journalist, and humourist. A reporter for the Toronto Star from 1911 to 1946, Clark gained fame in Canada for his coverage of various news events of the 1920s and 1930s, and particularly for his front-line coverage of World War II. He also began writing a popular humour column in the 1930s, which continued after he left the Star and was widely syndicated throughout Canada into the early 1970s.
In 1967, he was made one of the initial Officers of the Order of Canada "for the humour which he has brought to his profession as a newspaper writer and radio commentator".
Major Gregory Clark is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Clark was born and raised in Toronto, and attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute. In 1911, after twice failing his first year studies at the University of Toronto, Clark joined the editorial staff of the Toronto Star, where his father Joseph worked as an editor. Clark worked at the Star for the next 36 years, interrupted only by military service in World War I.
Beginning military service in 1916, Clark survived in the trenches until 1918. He fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge during which he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry after he took over as commander after his company had lost theirs. Clark returned to Canada a major with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles.
After the Armistice, Clark returned to his job as a newspaper reporter.In the 1920s and 1930s, Clark became one of the Toronto Star's best known reporters and columnists. He worked alongside a young Ernest Hemingway in the Star newsroom. Clark was initially suspicious of the "tall young squirt" who showed up in his office in 1920, but the two men later became friends. Clark urged Hemingway to give up fiction and concentrate his efforts on journalism "where his true talent -- and his brilliant future -- lay". Clark later cheerfully admitted that Hemingway was wise to ignore his advice.
Among the stories Clark covered were the Great Haileybury Fire of 1922, the Lindbergh Kidnap Trial in 1935, the coronation of King George VI and the royal couple's 1939 tour of Canada. Perhaps his most celebrated piece of reportage was his coverage of the Moose River Mine Disaster of 1936. After arriving in Nova Scotia to cover the story, Clark continued to stay with the rescue crew after many other reporters had left, as they had given up hope the trapped miners were still alive. Clark was therefore on hand when the first faint taps of the trapped miners were heard, and was able to report the scoop first-hand.
Clark also wrote a regular column. Usually lightly humorous in tone, his columns were closely observed real-life vignettes that told stories of everyday trials, tribulations, and minor triumphs. An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, he often wrote of the adventures he and his friends had while on (or preparing for) a fishing or hunting trip. By the late 1930s, Clark's columns, illustrated by Jimmie Frise, were so popular in Canada that Star editor Charles Lymbery averred that more Canadians recognized Clark on the street than they would the prime minister, a member of the royal family or a Hollywood movie star. A selection of Clark's columns and Frise's illustrations appeared in a volume titled So What in 1936.[citation needed] Frise talked of their blunderings to the Star: "We've fried eggs on the city hall steps. We caulked my house and flooded the parlor with cement. I once let Greg persuade me to get a steam shovel to do my spring digging and ruined my garden. Perhaps this book is our most foolish adventure."[citation needed] A follow-up volume, Which We Did, appeared in 1937.
Greg Clark (journalist)
Gregory Clark, OC OBE MC (September 25, 1892 – February 3, 1977) was a Canadian war veteran, journalist, and humourist. A reporter for the Toronto Star from 1911 to 1946, Clark gained fame in Canada for his coverage of various news events of the 1920s and 1930s, and particularly for his front-line coverage of World War II. He also began writing a popular humour column in the 1930s, which continued after he left the Star and was widely syndicated throughout Canada into the early 1970s.
In 1967, he was made one of the initial Officers of the Order of Canada "for the humour which he has brought to his profession as a newspaper writer and radio commentator".
Major Gregory Clark is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Clark was born and raised in Toronto, and attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute. In 1911, after twice failing his first year studies at the University of Toronto, Clark joined the editorial staff of the Toronto Star, where his father Joseph worked as an editor. Clark worked at the Star for the next 36 years, interrupted only by military service in World War I.
Beginning military service in 1916, Clark survived in the trenches until 1918. He fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge during which he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry after he took over as commander after his company had lost theirs. Clark returned to Canada a major with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles.
After the Armistice, Clark returned to his job as a newspaper reporter.In the 1920s and 1930s, Clark became one of the Toronto Star's best known reporters and columnists. He worked alongside a young Ernest Hemingway in the Star newsroom. Clark was initially suspicious of the "tall young squirt" who showed up in his office in 1920, but the two men later became friends. Clark urged Hemingway to give up fiction and concentrate his efforts on journalism "where his true talent -- and his brilliant future -- lay". Clark later cheerfully admitted that Hemingway was wise to ignore his advice.
Among the stories Clark covered were the Great Haileybury Fire of 1922, the Lindbergh Kidnap Trial in 1935, the coronation of King George VI and the royal couple's 1939 tour of Canada. Perhaps his most celebrated piece of reportage was his coverage of the Moose River Mine Disaster of 1936. After arriving in Nova Scotia to cover the story, Clark continued to stay with the rescue crew after many other reporters had left, as they had given up hope the trapped miners were still alive. Clark was therefore on hand when the first faint taps of the trapped miners were heard, and was able to report the scoop first-hand.
Clark also wrote a regular column. Usually lightly humorous in tone, his columns were closely observed real-life vignettes that told stories of everyday trials, tribulations, and minor triumphs. An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, he often wrote of the adventures he and his friends had while on (or preparing for) a fishing or hunting trip. By the late 1930s, Clark's columns, illustrated by Jimmie Frise, were so popular in Canada that Star editor Charles Lymbery averred that more Canadians recognized Clark on the street than they would the prime minister, a member of the royal family or a Hollywood movie star. A selection of Clark's columns and Frise's illustrations appeared in a volume titled So What in 1936.[citation needed] Frise talked of their blunderings to the Star: "We've fried eggs on the city hall steps. We caulked my house and flooded the parlor with cement. I once let Greg persuade me to get a steam shovel to do my spring digging and ruined my garden. Perhaps this book is our most foolish adventure."[citation needed] A follow-up volume, Which We Did, appeared in 1937.
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