Award-winning author Fred Edge passed away April 14 at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, shortly after his 90th birthday.
He had been a BC logger, reporter/columnist/editor with many Canadian newspapers including the Vancouver Province, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Telegram, and Winnipeg Free Press. He freelanced more than 200 magazine articles in Toronto and from Europe as a Paris-based correspondent for New Liberty Magazine. Fred wrote teleplays for CBC, NBC and ITV (U-K) and was a writer/editor for the popular television series Cannonball. Other works were The Avengers and programs for Kraft Television Theatre and General Motors Theater. He produced several records including Buck Clayton and the Count Basie All-Stars. His books included Scotch for Breakfast, Trafford Publishing (2001); Borrowed Time: Living with Cancer with Someone You Love, Oolichan Books (1995); The Iron Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD, University of Manitoba Press (1992) ; Don't Tell Me About It, Write It!: How to Get and Write the News for Newspapers, The Press Journal (1963). Borrowed Time is about his predeceased wife Christina MacIver and her courageous battle with cancer. The Iron Rose is a biography of Charlotte Whitehead Ross, Quebec's and Manitoba's first female physician. She was denied a medical license in 1887, but practiced and was never prosecuted. The Manitoba legislature granted a license posthumously after publication of the book. Fred was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Medal (Popular History), from the Manitoba Historical Society (1993).
He is survived by daughter Teresa, sons Rory, Casey and Shawn and their families. Fred took great pleasure in celebrating the birthdays of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He had been a BC logger, reporter/columnist/editor with many Canadian newspapers including the Vancouver Province, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Telegram, and Winnipeg Free Press. He freelanced more than 200 magazine articles in Toronto and from Europe as a Paris-based correspondent for New Liberty Magazine. Fred wrote teleplays for CBC, NBC and ITV (U-K) and was a writer/editor for the popular television series Cannonball. Other works were The Avengers and programs for Kraft Television Theatre and General Motors Theater. He produced several records including Buck Clayton and the Count Basie All-Stars. His books included Scotch for Breakfast, Trafford Publishing (2001); Borrowed Time: Living with Cancer with Someone You Love, Oolichan Books (1995); The Iron Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD, University of Manitoba Press (1992) ; Don't Tell Me About It, Write It!: How to Get and Write the News for Newspapers, The Press Journal (1963). Borrowed Time is about his predeceased wife Christina MacIver and her courageous battle with cancer. The Iron Rose is a biography of Charlotte Whitehead Ross, Quebec's and Manitoba's first female physician. She was denied a medical license in 1887, but practiced and was never prosecuted. The Manitoba legislature granted a license posthumously after publication of the book. Fred was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Medal (Popular History), from the Manitoba Historical Society (1993).
He is survived by daughter Teresa, sons Rory, Casey and Shawn and their families. Fred took great pleasure in celebrating the birthdays of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Award-winning author Fred Edge passed away April 14 at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, shortly after his 90th birthday.
He had been a BC logger, reporter/columnist/editor with many Canadian newspapers including the Vancouver Province, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Telegram, and Winnipeg Free Press. He freelanced more than 200 magazine articles in Toronto and from Europe as a Paris-based correspondent for New Liberty Magazine. Fred wrote teleplays for CBC, NBC and ITV (U-K) and was a writer/editor for the popular television series Cannonball. Other works were The Avengers and programs for Kraft Television Theatre and General Motors Theater. He produced several records including Buck Clayton and the Count Basie All-Stars. His books included Scotch for Breakfast, Trafford Publishing (2001); Borrowed Time: Living with Cancer with Someone You Love, Oolichan Books (1995); The Iron Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD, University of Manitoba Press (1992) ; Don't Tell Me About It, Write It!: How to Get and Write the News for Newspapers, The Press Journal (1963). Borrowed Time is about his predeceased wife Christina MacIver and her courageous battle with cancer. The Iron Rose is a biography of Charlotte Whitehead Ross, Quebec's and Manitoba's first female physician. She was denied a medical license in 1887, but practiced and was never prosecuted. The Manitoba legislature granted a license posthumously after publication of the book. Fred was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Medal (Popular History), from the Manitoba Historical Society (1993).
He is survived by daughter Teresa, sons Rory, Casey and Shawn and their families. Fred took great pleasure in celebrating the birthdays of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He had been a BC logger, reporter/columnist/editor with many Canadian newspapers including the Vancouver Province, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Telegram, and Winnipeg Free Press. He freelanced more than 200 magazine articles in Toronto and from Europe as a Paris-based correspondent for New Liberty Magazine. Fred wrote teleplays for CBC, NBC and ITV (U-K) and was a writer/editor for the popular television series Cannonball. Other works were The Avengers and programs for Kraft Television Theatre and General Motors Theater. He produced several records including Buck Clayton and the Count Basie All-Stars. His books included Scotch for Breakfast, Trafford Publishing (2001); Borrowed Time: Living with Cancer with Someone You Love, Oolichan Books (1995); The Iron Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD, University of Manitoba Press (1992) ; Don't Tell Me About It, Write It!: How to Get and Write the News for Newspapers, The Press Journal (1963). Borrowed Time is about his predeceased wife Christina MacIver and her courageous battle with cancer. The Iron Rose is a biography of Charlotte Whitehead Ross, Quebec's and Manitoba's first female physician. She was denied a medical license in 1887, but practiced and was never prosecuted. The Manitoba legislature granted a license posthumously after publication of the book. Fred was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Medal (Popular History), from the Manitoba Historical Society (1993).
He is survived by daughter Teresa, sons Rory, Casey and Shawn and their families. Fred took great pleasure in celebrating the birthdays of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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