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John Harry Oslund
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Journalist, publisher.
Born at Sioux Lookout, Ontario on 12 June 1929, son of Swedish immigrants Axel Sigurd Åslund (1895-1963) and Karolina Olivia Palmquist (1893-1987), he worked as a printer and linotype operator at the Reston Recorder (1950-1951), Estevan Mercury (1952-1954) and Gladstone Age-Press (1954-1955) before moving to Neepawa where he was co-manager, with John Campbell Huxley, journalist (1956-1968) and co-publisher, production manager, and editor (1968-1988) of the Neepawa Press. They sold the business in 1988.
On 24 January 1952, he married Randy Anna May Oslund (1934-2017, daughter of William John Abbey) at Reston. He served as President of the Neepawa and District Chamber of Commerce (1967), Neepawa Lions Club (1971), Manitoba Weekly Newspapers Association (1971-1972), Neepawa Barbershop Chapter of the SPEBQSA, and Neepawa Flying Club. He held leadership positions in the Neepawa Elks (Exalted Ruler, 1959-1960), East View Lodge Board, and Neepawa District Memorial Hospital Board. He was a member of the Neepawa Curling Club, Neepawa Golf and Country Club, and Neepawa Kaleidoscope Concerts organizing committee.
In April 1989, he received a Silver Quill Award from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association for 25 years of distinguished service to the newspaper profession.
He died at Neepawa on 9 April 2014 and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery.
“Reston bride will make home at Estevan, Sask.,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 February 1952, page 11.
“MacGregor, Altona papers win top weekly honors.,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 May 1964, page 10.
“New owners for paper,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 October 1968, page 2.
“Neepawa & nearby,” Brandon Sun, 29 July 1971, page 9.
Randy Anna May Oslund, White's Funeral Home.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 April 2024.
We thank Kjel Oslund for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 September 2024
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