Margaret Lyons, 95, was an influential executive who sparked CBC’s Radio Revolution

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“I think Margaret Lyons was arguably the most important and the most influential CBC radio executive in the past 60 years,” said Peter Herrndorf, a longtime CBC executive who served as Ms. Lyons’s boss from 1979 to 1983.

Months after Japan bombed the United States naval base of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, the cabinet of Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King issued an order-in-council excluding all people of Japanese extraction from being within 100 miles of the Pacific Coast. Farms, including that belonging to the Inouyes, were seized and later sold off at fire-sale prices by a federal agency known as the Custodian of Enemy Property. While many Japanese-Canadians worked as labourers in B.C.

In 1944, Margaret left the job and travelled to Hamilton – one of the few cities in Canada where those of Japanese extraction were then permitted – to work as a chambermaid at McMaster University while finishing up her high-school diploma at night. She then entered McMaster and began studying economics, calculating that the subject matter would give her an advantage over other aspiring journalists. She met a fellow economics student by the name of Ed Lyons, and they fell in love.

 

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