Peter Desbarats, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Desbarats

Canadian journalist

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1933

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 11-Feb-2014

Profession: writer, playwright, journalist, children's writer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Peter Hullett Desbarats, OC (July 2, 1933 – February 11, 2014) 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. Until his death from Alzheimer's disease, he lived in a heritage home with his actress wife Hazel in the East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District in London, Ontario.