Former Sun editor named as member of the Order of Canada
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This article was published 30/06/2023 (1007 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A former managing editor of the Brandon Sun has been selected along with dozens of others to receive the Order of Canada. Charles Gordon, who received an honorary degree from Brandon University in 1994, worked at the Sun from 1964 to 1974 before starting a 31-year stint at the Ottawa Citizen.
He has been named a member of the Order of Canada. Gov. Gen. Mary Simon announced 85 appointments to the Order of Canada on Friday morning, including three companions, 22 officers and 60 members.
The Citizen reported this morning that Gordon had been turned down by the Kingston Whig-Standard when he applied for his first newspaper job, but the editor shared his name with a friend at The Brandon Sun, where a job on the editorial board had opened up.
“I just fell in love with it the moment I walked in the newsroom,” Gordon told the Citizen.
Gordon would work for The Brandon Sun for the next decade, eventually becoming its managing editor, before taking the job in Ottawa as the Citizen’s editorial writer.
“Charles Gordon invested the editorial page with urbane and reasoned judgment and wit at turning a phrase,” wrote Brandon Sun columnist Kaye Rowe during Gordon’s last week with the Brandon paper in 1974.
“When you start here, you think that the real action is with the New York Times,” Gordon was quoted as saying upon his departure from the Sun. “Then you discover that what you’re doing matters to the people around you.”
While at the Citizen, he held several positions as both an editor and columnist. His columns also appeared in Ottawa This Week and in Maclean’s magazine.
He also authored several humour novels and collections of essays and co-created the 1987 CBC Television show “Not My Department.”
Among his other talents, Gordon is a jazz musician and composer, playing the trumpet and flugelhorn.
The Order of Canada was created in 1967 and recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. More than 7,800 people have been invested.
» The Brandon Sun, with files from The Canadian Press