Grant Dexter was one of Canada's most influential journalists in the mid-20th century. Dexter spent his entire career with the Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press

The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Founded in 1872, as the Manitoba Free Press, it is the oldest newspaper in western Canada. It is the newspaper with the largest readership in the province....

, which he joined in 1912 at the age of 16. He served in Lord Strathcona’s Horse from 1915 until he was invalided to England in 1917. For many years (1923-44) he was parliamentary reporter in Ottawa for John Dafoe’s Free Press. During World War Two he served as a private conduit for the government to Dafoe. He served as associate editor of the Free Press from 1946 to 1948, then as editor from 1948 to 1954. He received the Marie Moors Cabot Medal for journalism -- the first Canadian so honoured -- in 1946.
Dexter was very well-connected to official Ottawa. He sent detailed memoranda on politics and Ottawa intrigues to his employers. These have been preserved at Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

and a collection of his wartime memoranda has been published.http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002273