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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Stewart, Bill
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Description area
Dates of existence
1914 - 2004
History
Bill Stewart was a reporter with the Canadian Press, from Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec. He was the first CP reporter on the beach during the June 6th, 1944 D-Day landings in France, and was named to the Order of the British Empire in 1948. He was the Montreal bureau chief of the Canadian Press from 1952 to 1974. He passed away in 2004.