Memorable Manitobans: Jon Thordarson (1950-2010)

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Jon Thordarson
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Journalist, photographer.

Born on 31 July 1950, he worked as a photographer for the Winnipeg Tribune, Hamilton Spectator, and Winnipeg Sun, and was an editor for the Winnipeg Free Press. He died at Winnipeg, after an eight-year battle with cancer, on 13 March 2010. In October 2013, he was inducted posthumously into the Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt.

Sources:

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 15 March 2010.

Memorial, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 March 2011.

“Photo ditor, educator honoured by Selinger,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 October 2013, page A2.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 October 2023

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