Max Ferguson, OC

Order of Canada

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 (born February 10, 1924) is a Canadian radio personality and satirist, best known for his long-running programs Rawhide and The Max Ferguson Show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 (CBC).

Born in Durham

Durham

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, England

England

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, Ferguson was raised in London, Ontario

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, and graduated from the University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario

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 with a BA in English and French. In the summer of 1946 he was hired as an announcer at radio station CFPL in London, but later that year relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the opportunity to join the CBC as a staff announcer with the local station.