Former Times Colonist columnist Jim Hume dies at 98
Hume arrived in B.C. from England after the Second World War, and got his first full-time reporting job at the Nanaimo Daily Free Press. He moved to that paper’s Port Alberni bureau for a time, then moved to become editor of the Penticton Herald.
Hume did brief stints with the Capital Regional District as an information officer and with CFAX Radio, then returned to the newspaper world at the Daily Colonist in the early 1970s, while raising six sons. He continued his witty and historically grounded observations on the passing scene until April 1. His last column was a sober warning about the potential after-effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He was awarded the Bruce Hutchison lifetime achievement award by the Jack Webster Foundation in 1994 and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal in 2002 for contributions to public life.
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