Dan McLeod

For the Canadian professional wrestler, see Dan McLeod (wrestler).
Dan McLeod at work near Cooktown, Australia

Dan McLeod (born 1943) is one of the founders and the former owner, publisher, and editor of the influential weekly newspaper, the Georgia Straight in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Dan was born and raised in Vancouver. He graduated from Kitsilano High School and went on to study mathematics and meteorology at the University of British Columbia,[1] where Dan earned an Honours B.Sc degree in mathematics. He was also a poet, and after readings by the poet Charles Duncan (poet) at U.B.C. in the summer of 1961, he, with some friends, began a small newsletter, Tish, which he edited from about 1964 until the Georgia Straight was founded in 1967.[2]

  1. ^ "Georgia Straight Staff 1967-1972". Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  2. ^ "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1967 Chronology". www.chuckdavis.ca. Retrieved Apr 8, 2020.