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Ernest Charles Mutimer
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Journalist.
Born at Winnipeg on 15 December 1924, son of Charles Herbert George Mutimer (1895-1973) and Doris Maud Bartrum Slowe (1900-1996), during the Second World War he served as a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He started a career in radio at Kenora, Ontario.
He returned to Winnipeg as a producer with CBC Manitoba, working for many years on the Red River Jamboree and Happy Land. In the mid-1960s, he spent two years in Malaya helping to set up its first television network. He also spent three years in Trinidad and Tobago working in communications with UNESCO before returning to CBC at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (circa 1985). He also wrote columns for the Winnipeg Tribune and, after retirement, for the Manitoba Society of Seniors Journal. He was a member of a group of retired media who established radio station CKVN in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. He wrote plays, books, and an operetta entitled “Cannington’s Manners”.
He was married twice, first on 20 September 1947 to Norah Maclean Angus (c1927-1985) with whom he had three children. His second wife was Ann Cushman.
He died at the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg on 27 December 2014.
Marriage registration [Charles Herbert George Mutimer, Doris Maud Bartram Slowe], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Mutimer - Angus bridal in St. John's Cathedral,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 October 1947, page 46.
Death registration [Charles Herbert George Mutimer], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Norah Mutimer], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 January 1985, page 48.
Obituary [Doris Mutimer], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 November 1996, page 55.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 24 January 2015.
Obituary [Elizabeth Mae Cushman], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 April 2016.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 December 2023
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