About Peter Desbarats
Peter Hullett Desbarats, OC was a Canadian author, playwright and journalist. He was also the dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario (1981–1997), a former commissioner in the Somalia Inquiry and a former Maclean-Hunter chair of Communications Ethics at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Peter Hullett Desbarats, OC (July 2, 1933 – February 11, 2014) was a Canadian author, playwright and journalist. Peter Desbarats was born on July 2, 1933 to Hullett Desbarats (1909-1963), a descendant of the printer and publisher George-Édouard Desbarats by way of his son Hullet Charles Henri Desbarats) and Margaret Rettie. The family lived on Connaught Avenue in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, where Peter attended Loyola High School.
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