Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Carrie Best

Carrie Best

Carrie M. Best, OC, ONS (March 4, 1903 - July 24, 2001) was a Black Canadian journalist. Born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, a daughter to James and Georgina Ashe Prevoe, she married Albert T. Best in 1925. In 1946 she founded The Clarion, the first black-owned and published Nova Scotia newspaper. In 1952 she started a radio show, The Quiet Corner, which was aired for 12 years. From 1968 to 1975 she was a columnist for The Pictou Advocate, a newspaper based in Pictou, Nova Scotia.



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