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Peter Stursberg (Arthur Lewis Peter Stursberg) was born on 31 August, 1913 in Yantai, Republic of China, is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. Discover Peter Stursberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 101 years old?

Popular As Arthur Lewis Peter Stursberg
Occupation Journalism
Age 101 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 31 August 1913
Birthday 31 August
Birthplace Yantai, Republic of China
Date of death 31 August, 2014
Died Place Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality China

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Who Is Peter Stursberg's Wife?

His wife is Jessamy Anderson (née Robertson) m. 1946 (1915-2008)

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Children Richard Stursberg

Peter Stursberg Net Worth

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1830

"Stursberg recreated the story of his family in China for No Foreign Bones in China, recalling the turbulent birth of modern China through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, two world wars and the rise of Mao. It traces the fortunes of Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw, a merchant seaman, who arrived in China in the 1830s. He settled in Fuzhou and married a Japanese woman, Peter Stursberg's grandmother, to whom the book is dedicated. The Shaw children grew up in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade. The title refers to the fury of the Chinese over the Korean War. They expelled all foreigners and even dug up their Bones, including the Bones of Stursberg's grandfather and grandmother."

Through his ancestors Captain Shaw and his Japanese wife, Stursberg is related to former British Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith.

Stursberg is the father of former CBC executive Richard Stursberg.

His granddaughter, Trina Maus, is a news reporter for CTV.

1913

Arthur Lewis Peter Stursberg, known as Peter Stursberg, (August 31, 1913 – August 31, 2014) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster.

Stursberg was born in Yantai, China, the son of Mary Ellen (née Shaw) and Walter Arthur Stursberg, who was working for the Chinese postal service.

His father was born in Canada to a German father from the Rhineland and an English mother, while his mother was born in China to an English father and a Japanese mother.

At the age of seven, Stursberg's parents took him on a world tour before returning to China.

At age 11 Stursberg was sent to a boarding school in England.

Several years later his parents returned to Canada.

He joined them and went on to graduate from West Hill High School in Montreal.

1930

He then took his British matriculation at Bedford School before returning to Montreal in 1930 to attend McGill University where he studied sciences and wrote for the McGill Daily.

As a result of the Great Depression, Stursberg's parents suffered a reversal in their economic status and moved to a farm on Vancouver Island.

Stursberg left university to follow them west and worked at a number of odd jobs including working in a logging camp, on farms and odd jobs.

1934

In 1934 Stursberg found a job as agricultural editor of the Victoria Daily Times.

1938

Curious about the situation in Europe, he embarked on a tour of the continent in 1938 visiting France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union where he was briefly detained for a visa violation.

He filed stories as a freelance reporter during his tour and was hired on the strength of these pieces as a war reporter for the London Daily Herald.

1939

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Stursberg returned to Canada to join the Vancouver Daily Province.

1941

He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Vancouver in 1941 as a news editor.

1942

In 1942 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy before becoming a war correspondent for the CBC later that year.

Stursberg spent his career as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, television newscaster and commentator, and author.

He was recognised as one of the best Canadian correspondents of the Second World War, reporting for CBC Radio from the front lines in Italy and France.

1944

He published a book in 1944, Journey Into Victory, based on his experience.

1945

In 1945 he left the CBC to return to the Daily Herald as a foreign correspondent.

1950

He rejoined CBC in 1950 as the network's United Nations correspondent, leaving again in 1956 to join the Toronto Daily Star as Ottawa editorial correspondent.

1956

He wrote several books on Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson: Diefenbaker: Leadership Gained, 1956-62 (1975) and Diefenbaker: Leadership Lost, 1962-67 (1976), Lester Pearson and the Dream of Unity (1978) and Lester Pearson and the American Dilemma (1980).

1957

He left journalism in 1957 to work as a researcher and speechwriter for Prime Minister John Diefenbaker who subsequently appointed him press officer to the Canadian Trade Mission to the United Kingdom in 1957 and later, in 1958, secretary of the Trade Mission in Ottawa.

Stursberg joined Ernest Bushnell to apply for a license for what became CJOH Television in Ottawa.

1961

When the station was launched in 1961 he became a television newscaster and commentator for CJOH and was one of the initial co-anchors of the CTV National News.

1973

He remained a news commentator for CJOH and CTV until his retirement from broadcasting in 1973.

1980

In 1980 he joined the Department of Canadian Studies at Simon Fraser University as an Instructor and was an adjunct professor there from 1982 to 1988.

1996

In 1996 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for having "helped Canadians to be better informed about themselves and their place in the world".

2002

Stursberg's final book, No Foreign Bones in China (2002), details his family's complex relationship with his country of birth:

2014

Stursberg died in 2014, on his 101st birthday, in Vancouver, British Columbia.