Barry Penhale

Barry Lloyd Penhale is an Ontario historian and publisher.

Career Penhale has worked as a journalist and a publisher, initially working as a sports broadcaster and later working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and TVO. Penhale was a pioneer of Canadian wrestling journalism writing for Wrestling as You Like It magazine, broadcasting a weekly radio show, and also a television show for Northland Wrestling. Later in his career, he presented Sketches of Our Town, a television show with 32 episodes.

Publications A Stringerful of Memories, Highway Book Shop, 1976, Grassroots Artisans (as editor), 1982, Along the trail in Algonquin Park with Ralph Bice (editor), 1982 Canadian Wrestling Illustrated

Family Penhale was the father of Nancy Hopkins, publisher of Country Roads, Discovering Hastings County magazine. Hopkins died in 2021.