Fonds glen-887 - Bob Edwards fonds

Robert Chambers Edwards, 1860-1922, was born and educated in Scotland. He came to North America in 1895 and lived in Wyoming, USA before coming to Alberta in the late 1890s. He published the Wetaskiwin Free Lance for a few years, then in 1900 went to Manitoba to work for the Winnipeg Free Press. He returned to Alberta and published the first issue of the infamous Eye Opener in High River on March 4, 1902. He moved to Calgary in 1904 and from then until his death published the Eye Opener intermittently, with a two year break from 1909 to 1911 which he spent in Ontario and Manitoba. He was well known for his bold, caustic and witty style of journalism. He married Kate Penman of Scotland in 1917. He was elected an independent member of the Alberta Legislature in 1921. Bob Edwards School in Calgary was named in his honour in 1971. For further information see The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Edwards / edited by Hugh Dempsey. - Edmonton : Hurtig, 1976; and Diane Howard's entry, "Bob Edwards", in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains / David J. Wishart, ed. -- Lincoln/London : University of Nebraska Press, 2004, p. 511-512; and Hugh A. Dempsey's entry, "Robert Chambers Edwards" in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at www.biographi.ca.