Former Ottawa Citizen columnist Charles Gordon, whose sly and incisive sense of humour kept inflated egos in check for years in this city, is one of four local residents who have been appointed to the Order of Canada.
When he applied for his first newspaper job, Gordon was turned down by the Kingston Whig-Standard, but the editor shared his name with a friend at the Brandon Sun, where a job was open on the editorial board. It was 1964.He worked in Brandon for the next 10 years and rose to become the paper’s managing editor. With his path to a more senior job blocked, Gordon accepted a job as an editorial writer at the Ottawa Citizen in 1974.
At the Citizen, Gordon did stints as books editor, feature writer and editorial page editor, but he always came back to column writing. In retirement, Gordon has played in a wide assortment of jazz groups and has volunteered his time with JazzWorks, a not-for-profit organization devoted to the development of jazz musicians of all ages. A graceful athlete, he still plays tennis and golf, but is now resigned, he said, to watching others play baseball and basketball.
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