Roy MacGregor -Paper Trails: From The Backwoods To The Front Page, A Life In Stories

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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…