What is Pierre Berton?
'''Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OOnt}} (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian author of non-fiction, especially [[Canadiana]] and [[Canadian]] [[history]]. He was a television personality and journalist. He won many honours and awards for his books. He was born in [[Whitehorse, Yukon|Whitehorse]], [[Yukon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.cbc.ca/programs/135-16709/page/1/|title=Pierre Berton: the writer at home|date=March 29, 1987|work=[[CBC.ca]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628214309/http://archives.cbc.ca/programs/135-16709/page/1/|archive-date=June 28, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Between 1957 to 1995, he was a panelist for ''[[Front Page Challenge]]''. Beron died on November 30, 2004 at a hospital in [[Toronto]] of [[congestive heart failure]], aged 84. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Berton, Pierre}} [[Category:1920 births]] [[Category:2004 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from congestive heart failure]] [[Category:Canadian historians]] [[Category:Canadian television presenters]] [[Category:Canadian journalists]] {{bio-stub}}