Barry Lloyd Penhale is an Ontario historian and publisher. [1]
Penhale has worked as a journalist and a publisher, initially working as a sports broadcaster and later working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and TVO. [2] Penhale was a pioneer of Canadian wrestling journalism writing for Wrestling as You Like It magazine, broadcasting a weekly radio show, and also a television show for Northland Wrestling. [3] Later in his career, he presented Sketches of Our Town, a television show with 32 episodes. [2]
Penhale founded Natural Heritage Books before it merged into Dundurn Press. [2] In the 1960's Penhale launched The Outdoorsman magazine. [4]
In 2019, he was awarded the 2018 Ontario Historical Society's Lifetime Achievement Award. [2] He is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, and in 2016, was given the Ontario Black History Society’s Harriet Tubman Award. [2] [5]
Penhale was the father of Nancy Hopkins, publisher of Country Roads, Discovering Hastings County magazine. Hopkins died in 2021. [4]