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Ginger Byfield
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Virginia "Ginger" Byfield (1929-2014) was a Canadian reporter and editor. Life and career Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1929 while her parents were working temporarily on a road crew, Byfield moved back to Greenfield, Nova Scotia at the age of 1. She began her journalism career working in the summer of 1947 as a reporter for the Ottawa Journal. She married Ted Byfield in 1949 while the two worked for the Timmins Daily Press. After their first four children had reached adolescence she began teaching at St. John's Cathedral Boys School. In 1969 she moved to Genesse, Alberta to teach at St. John's School of Alberta. In 1973 she worked as a reporter and editor for St. John's Edmonton Report which went on to become Alberta Report newsmagazine. During the life of the magazine she trained numerous writers that went on to work at the National Post, Maclean's Magazine and the Globe & Mail. |
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