Anne Petrie
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Anne Petrie is an award-winning broadcaster and was most known as the host of Canada Live and Coast to Coast on CBC Newsworld
during its early years.
Prior to that she was the primary news anchor and host of CBWT
's 24Hours LateNight from October 1985 to July 1989.
Anne came to Winnipeg from Vancouver where she hosted the local CBC Radio program 3's Company.
Anne has authored four books on Vancouver:
One book on single-mothers — Gone to an Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers (ISBN 0771069715).
Anne has also hosted Anne Petrie's Talk TV and Absolutely Canadian, both on CBC Newsworld, and The Moral Divide, a co-production with VisionTV.
CBC Newsworld
CBC News Network is a Canadian English language Category C specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and...
during its early years.
Prior to that she was the primary news anchor and host of CBWT
CBWT
CBWT is the CBC's television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the only CBC station in Manitoba, since Brandon's CKX-TV closed on October 2, 2009....
's 24Hours LateNight from October 1985 to July 1989.
Anne came to Winnipeg from Vancouver where she hosted the local CBC Radio program 3's Company.
Anne has authored four books on Vancouver:
- Ethnic Vancouver (ISBN 0888391595)
- Vancouver Secrets (ISBN 091949319X)
- More Vancouver Secrets (ISBN 0919493750)
- A guidebook to ethnic Vancouver : walking, shopping, and eating tours of the ethnic neighborhoods of Vancouver (ISBN 0888391595)
One book on single-mothers — Gone to an Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers (ISBN 0771069715).
Anne has also hosted Anne Petrie's Talk TV and Absolutely Canadian, both on CBC Newsworld, and The Moral Divide, a co-production with VisionTV.