Roy MacGregor -Paper Trails: From The Backwoods To The Front Page, A Life In Stories
Wed, Apr 09
|HHOA Fish Hatchery, Haliburton
A Telling Our Stories Speakers Event


Time & Location
Apr 09, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
HHOA Fish Hatchery, Haliburton, 6712 Gelert Rd, Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0, Canada
About the event
From his early days in the pages of Maclean's, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves—never entirely untethered from the land and its history
When MacGregor was still a young editor at Maclean's, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was…