Barry Lloyd Penhale is an Ontario historian and publisher.[1]
Career
Penhale has worked as a journalist and a publisher, initially working as a sports broadcaster and later working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and TVO.[2] Penhale was a pioneer of Canadian wrestling journalism writing for Wrestling as You Like It magazine, broadcasting a weekly radio show, and also a television show for Northland Wrestling.[3] Later in his career, he presented Sketches of Our Town, a television show with 32 episodes.[2]
Penhale founded Natural Heritage Books before it merged into Dundurn Press.[2] In the 1960's Penhale launched The Outdoorsman magazine.[4]
In 2019, he was awarded the 2018 Ontario Historical Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.[2] He is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, and in 2016, was given the Ontario Black History Society’s Harriet Tubman Award.[2][5]
Publications
- A Stringerful of Memories, Highway Book Shop, 1976, ISBN 9780889541030
- Grassroots Artisans (as editor), 1982, ISBN 0-920474-24-1[6]
- Along the trail in Algonquin Park with Ralph Bice (editor),[7] 1982[8]
- Canadian Wrestling Illustrated[9]
Family
Penhale was the father of Nancy Hopkins, publisher of Country Roads, Discovering Hastings County magazine. Hopkins died in 2021.[4]