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Percy Saltzman, (1915 – January 15, 2007) was a meteorologist and television personality best remembered for being the first weatherman in Canadian television history. As a pioneer in weather forecasting, he was the first Canadian to present the weather in satellite and radar images and to give road reports and forest fires. He also hosted numerous public affairs programs on CBC and, in 1969, along with Lloyd Robertson, he hosted ten days of coverage of the first moon landing for CBC Television.〔 ==Early life== Born in Winnipeg, his family moved to Neudorf, Saskatchewan to operate a general store. In 1925, they moved to Vancouver, British Columbia〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Biography )〕 where he studied at King George Secondary School and the University of British Columbia.〔 He was the eldest of four children of Solomon and Elizabeth Saltzman. His father and mother had immigrated to Canada from Ukraine in 1911. He was a good student and won the Governor-General Lord Willingdon's Silver Medal for coming in first in the province in his final high school exams. In the 1930s he was a political activist and once shared a stage with Stafford Cripps at a Vancouver socialist rally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Random Brushes with my Lords and their Harpies )〕 Saltzman maintained his left-wing convictions into later life. His son, Paul, said of him "(h)e came out of the Depression in Western Canada and that kind of skewed his values. He was an armchair socialist, but that didn't translate into action."〔 After their Vancouver grocery store failed, Saltzman's parents moved to Los Angeles along with his youngest brother, Kenneth Saltzman and he rarely saw them.〔 His junior brother, Morris Saltzman remained in Vancouver until his death in 1988. For his activism in bringing different religious and cultural factions to respect one another and work together, Morris received the Order of Canada several years before Percy was so honoured. Percy moved to Montreal and studied medicine at McGill University School of Medicine until 1935〔 when he met and married his first wife, Rose Kogan (1911–1988), in 1935.〔 He dropped out of medical school around this time and took a series of odd jobs such as working in a clothing store, an envelope opener in a puzzle contest and as a waiter before entering the printing business.〔 He then moved with her to Toronto in 1937 where he worked as a Linotype operator at Eveready Printing, the Communist Party of Canada's printshop, for several years.〔 In 1943, he became a meteorology officer for the weather service of the federal government and was attached to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan for the remainder of World War II.〔 He would retain his position with the Dominion Weather Service for 25 years.〔 It was essentially an extension of this function for him to be given the opportunity to bring his expertise first to radio beginning in 1947〔 and later to television as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, another Canadian government agency, embarked on this new medium. "He kept that job at the weather office the entire time he was on television with CBC because he didn't think TV was secure. He wasn't sure that TV would last," said his grandson, CBC reporter Aaron Saltzman.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Percy Saltzman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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