Gary Bannerman

Gary William Bannerman was a broadcaster, writer and corporate communications consultant based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the author of several books. From 1973 until 1988 on Western Canadas largest radio station, CKNW, he hosted the dominant public affairs radio program in British Columbia, a threehour network forum each weekday consisting of news, investigative reporting, celebrity interviews and openline audience participation. His books focused on history, passenger shipping and, most recently, wasteful spending in the health care industry. In 1989 he and his wife Patricia, through their holding company Bannerline Enterprises Ltd., established Bannerline Corporate Communications, a consulting firm, advising what would become a long list of corporations both small and large. Although he continued to broadcast parttime for CKNW and other radio stations through most of the 1990s, the consulting and writing endeavours had become so time consuming that media work was r

Bannerman was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the eldest child of William MacDonald Bannerman and Norma Agnes Bannerman. His fathers ancestry dated back to the first Scots settlers of Nova Scotia, immigrants from northernmost Sutherland who landed in Pictou County in 1773 aboard The Hector. His maternal Scobie grandparents emigrated to Canada from Paisley, Scotland, settling in Sydney in 1923. His father Bill was a salesman who spent most of his career with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, for many years the companys regional manager for Atlantic Canada, based in Moncton, NB. Bannerman was followed in the family by brother Ross and sisters Wendy and Karen. As his fathers career evolved, promotions moved the family from Sydney to Moncton then to Halifax, NS, and finally back to Moncton to stay.

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