Jim Hume, who covered politics for the Times Colonist and its two predecessor newspapers for decades, died Wednesday morning in hospital aged 98.
by Les Leyne
April 13, 2022
Jim Hume, who covered politics for the Times Colonist and its two predecessor newspapers for decades, died Wednesday morning in hospital aged 98.
He lived independently up until three days ago, when he became ill.
Hume arrived in B.C. from England after the Second World War, and got his first full-time reporting job at the Nanaimo Daily Free Press. He moved to that paper’s Port Alberni bureau for a time, then moved to become editor of the Penticton Herald.
He moved on to the Edmonton Journal as an editor and later a legislature reporter/columnist. In 1965, he returned to Vancouver Island and became the legislature reporter for the Victoria Daily Times.
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