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Elwy Yost
Elwy McMurran Yost, (July 10, 1925 – July 21, 2011) was a television host, best known for hosting CBC Television's weekday ''Passport to Adventure'' series from 1965 to 1967,〔(CBC Television Series, 1952–1982 )〕 and TVOntario's weekday ''Magic Shadows'', from 1974 until the mid-1980s, and ''Saturday Night at the Movies'' from 1974 to 1999.
==Early life==
Born in Weston, Ontario, the son of pickle manufacturer Elwy Honderich Yost〔 and Annie Josephine McMurran. In his youth, the senior Yost would give his son a dime a week to go see a movie on condition that he'd then recount the plot.〔 Yost graduated from the Weston Collegiate and Vocational School in 1943.
He began studies at the University of Toronto in 1943, and studied engineering but left, in 1944, after failing his exams and joined the Canadian Infantry in 1944. He was honorably discharged in September 1945. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948, he worked variously in construction, at the Canadian National Exhibition, made an independent film with a classmate and acted in summerstock theatre.〔〔("Former Saturday Night at the Movies host Elwy Yost dies" ), ''Globe and Mail'', July 22, 2011〕 In 1951, he was working in the circulation department of the ''Toronto Star'' where he met his future wife, Lila Melby. He also worked in the Avro Canada personnel department from 1953 until 1959 when he and most of the staff were laid off due to the cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. He then worked as an English and History teacher at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario.〔("Elwy Yost, longtime TV host, dies at 86" ), ''CBC News'', July 22, 2011〕
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