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Homer, Kenneth Churchill, 1915-2003
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Kenneth Churchill Homer was born in 1915 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Mount Allison University and worked briefly for CBC Radio Halifax. He was the sole broadcaster remaining at the Springhill Mines after the explosion in 1958, reporting across the continent on the surviving miners.
For the next four decades he lived in New Brunswick, working as a freelance writer and broadcaster. He was married to Mary Dees Clark, with whom he had one son. He died in 2003.