Stanley Burke

Q: When did Stanley Burke die?

Stanley Burke died on May 28, 2016.

Q: How old was Stanley Burke when they died?

Stanley Burke was 93 years old at the time of death.

Stanley Burke Jr. (February 8, 1923 – May 28, 2016) was a Canadian television journalist.

Early years

Born February 8, 1923, Burke's father was businessman Stanley Burke, founder of Pemberton Securities, a stockbrokerage firm in Western Canada. His brother was Lieutenant-Commander Cornelius Burke, a prominent Royal Canadian Navy officer during World War II.

Career

He was the anchor of CBC Television's The National News from 1966 to 1969. The show was renamed The National after he resigned to launch a public campaign to bring attention to the Nigerian Civil War and the humanitarian crisis in the secessionist state of Biafra.

Following his retirement from the CBC, Burke also wrote a number of books satirizing Canadian politics in the form of children's stories, including Frog Fables and Beaver Tales, The Day of the Glorious Revolution and Swamp Song.

In the 1980s, he was publisher with partner Jack McCann of the weekly newspaper Nanaimo Times in Nanaimo, British Columbia.