Vicki gabereau biography examples

Year Born: 1946

Year of Induction: 2000

Member of CAB Hall of Fame

Gabereau, Vicki (1946- )

Vicki Gabereau was born Vicki Frances Filion in Vancouver B.C.

on May 31st 1946. Her father, a photographer for the Vancouver Sun, was at that time Pierre Berton’s closest friend. In 1964 she moved to Toronto, where she stayed for a while with the Bertons, and spent the next 12 years doing a wide assortment of jobs, including cab driver, bartender and clown (with Puck Rent-A-Fool).

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It was in her clown character, as Rosie Sunrise, that she ran unsuccessfully against David Crombie in 1976 as a candidate for mayor of Toronto, losing handsomely in the process.

Later that year, as a consequence of a mayoralty race interview on a Brampton, Ontario radio station,  she was offered her first talk show.

Later,  she joined the CBC in Toronto, where she was the summer replacement host for Don Harron on Morningside in 1980.  In 1981 Vicki was back at the microphone again, this