Morse Telegraphy: Immigrant Father

First World War Dept: He died on Sept. 10 of heart problems in Sunnybrook Hospital, according to The Chronicle Herald. He was born in Toronto in 1913. His Scottish immigrant father enlisted in the Canadian army during the First World War and was killed at Passchendaele and tORONTO Ian Munro, whose half-century career at The Canadian Press news agency took him from Morse telegraphy to the beginnings of the computerized newsroom, has died at the age of 98. Munro spent 50 years with the news service, starting as a copy boy and retiring as the head of its technical operations on his 65th birthday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.