Elizabeth Gray, pictured circa 1978, hosted Cross Country Checkup from 1976 to 1978.
Elizabeth Gray, a veteran journalist and former host of CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup and As It Happens, has died at the age of 86.Elizabeth Gray, pictured here in 1978 at Cross Country Checkup, has died at the age of 86. died on Wednesday from lung cancer. She was 86.
"I think many people who listened to her over the years will be feeling a sense of loss," she told currentGray had a decades-long career in journalism that spanned continents and mediums. "It was so important to her, the CBC, and having a national broadcaster," Rachel said. "It meant that there was an opportunity to tell stories and to have voices on the air that would never have been heard.
Gray grew up in Toronto, and got her start in journalism at the Varsity, the University of Toronto's student newspaper, where she met her husband, the late Canadian journalist John Gray."I was an adult before I kind of finally understood that not everybody in the world actually talked about current events incessantly at every meal all the time," she said.
"She loved the camaraderie of other women," she said. "Smart, capable, you know, bossy women who wanted to tell stories and wanted to have their voices be part of these conversations as well."Wallin says she admired Gray's work from afar for a long time before she finally approached her. "She was very much like that through all her life. She was an amazing friend and a tough-minded mentor, and I think she helped an awful lot of us along the way."Gray soon took Wallin under her wing, and they went on to work together at CBC Ottawa in the mid- to late-'70s.
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