Whitelaw, Marjory, ca. 1919-

Marjory Whitelaw, broadcaster and author, was born in Moncton, N.B., ca. 1919. From 1939-1944, she was employed by the federal Department of Fisheries and the Children's Hospital in Halifax, N.S. She spent the next five years as administrative and editorial assistant with the International Labour Office [ILO] in Montreal and later, Geneva. From 1955-1973, Whitelaw was a writer and broadcaster for CBC and BBC, and lived in London, England, Halifax, N.S., and Toronto. She received two Ohio Awards in the early 1960s for documentaries, CBC Radio Soundings: Phoenix Halifax and CBC Radio Soundings: Tree of Peace. Her publications include a re-writing of Helen Joseph's Tomorrow's Sun: a Smuggled Journey from South Africa (1966), The Life and Times of Thomas McCulloch (1985), and First Impressions: Early Printing in Nova Scotia (1987).