Chronology

January A four-day Chinese New Year celebration was held in Vancouver’s Chinatown for the first time, sponsored by Chinese-Canadian businessmen.

January 10 Parm (Richard Parmater) Pettipiece, labor union organizer and printer, died in Vancouver, aged about 84. He was born in Ontario in 1875. Calgary’s first newsboy, Pettipiece began his printing career in 1890.

January 1 Norm Grohmann got into radio at CHWK in Chilliwack in the 1950s, and joined CKNW today. For four decades he cut a goofy swath through local radio in a range of voices, culminating in a daily bit with NW’s morning man, Brian ‘Frosty’ Forst, where he played a vast variety of people—none of them normal, all of them loud and funny—discussing the weather.

January 6 Frank (Francis James) Burd, newspaper publisher, died in Vancouver, one day short of his 92nd birthday. “He was born,” writes Constance Brissenden, “January 7, 1870, in Muskegon, Michigan.

January 2 The Ubyssey, the student newspaper at UBC, was named the best college newspaper in Canada. Editor Keith Bradbury accepted an award from the Canadian University Press organization. Later in 1963 Bradbury will publish an exposé on undercover RCMP agents spying on student political groups.