About Sandra Gwyn
Lived 1935 – 2000 (aged 65). Sandra Gwyn was a Canadian historian, journalist, editor-in-chief and writer.
Alexandra Sandra Fraser Gwyn, (17 May 1935 – 26 May 2000) was a Canadian journalist and writer.
She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, the daughter of Claude Fraser and Ruth Harley. After her father's death, her mother remarried and the family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia where Sandra attended Sacred Heart Convent. She graduated from Dalhousie University in 1955. After graduating, she moved to London where she worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She returned to Ottawa and married Richard Gwyn in 1958.
During the 1970s, she was the Ottawa editor for Saturday Night.
In 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Selected works Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War (1992) Mary Pratt (1989) The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984), winner of the 1984 Governor General's Awards.
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Canadian journalist
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Sandra Gwyn was born on 17 May 1935 in St. John's.
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Sandra Gwyn died on 26 May 2000.
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Sandra Gwyn was a historian, journalist, editor-in-chief and writer.
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Sandra Gwyn was Canadian.
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