- Anne Petrie
Anne Petrie (born
December 24 ,1946 ) is an award-winning broadcaster and was most known as the host of "Canada Live" and "Coast to Coast" onCBC Newsworld during its early years.Prior to that she was the primary news anchor and host of
CBWT 's "24Hours LateNight" from October 1985 to July 1989.Anne came to Winnipeg from Vancouver where she hosted the local CBC Radio program "3's Company".
Anne has authored four books on Vancouver:
* "Ethnic Vancouver" (ISBN 0888391595)
* "Vancouver Secrets" (ISBN 091949319X)
* "More Vancouver Secrets" (ISBN 0919493750)
* "A guidebook to ethnic Vancouver : walking, shopping, and eating tours of the ethnic neighborhoods of Vancouver" (ISBN 0888391595)One book on single-mothers — "Gone to an Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers" (ISBN 0771069715).
Anne has also hosted "Anne Petrie's Talk TV" and "Absolutely Canadian", both on CBC Newsworld, and "The Moral Divide", a co-production with
VisionTV .References
External links
* [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random059/98168881.html Library of Congress - Anne Petrie bio]
* [http://www.writersunion.ca/p/petrie.htm WritersUnion.ca - Anne Petrie bio]
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