His work was championed by journalists Robert Fulford and Peter Gzowski, among others.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

The monument was moved in the mid 1970s in order to accommodate widening of the original QEW, and is now located in the nearby Sir Casimir Gzowski Park along Lake Ontario, on the east side of the Humber River.

Peter Gzowski, ( July 13, 1934-January 24, 2002 ) was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio show Morningside.

Gzowski was known for a friendly but at times somewhat gruff interviewing style.

A descendant of Sir Casimir Gzowski, a prominent engineer, Gzowski was admitted to Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Gzowski was the father of a son, born in 1961, from an extra-marital relationship.

* 2002-The Peter Gzowski Foundation for Literacy was funded by the federal government and named in honour of Gzowski's work in promoting literacy in Canada

Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, KCMG ( March 5, 1813 – August 24, 1898 ), was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897.

Gzowski was born in Saint Petersburg to a noble Polish father who served with the Russian military.

In 1849 Gzowski was hired as a railway contractor by the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad.

In 1856 Gzowski & Co. was granted the right to cut timber on the Moon River in Muskoka, likely as a source of materials for railway construction.

In 1858 Gzowski was granted timber licences on the Whitefish River and on the South River in Northeastern Ontario.

As president of the Toronto Turf Club, in 1859 Gzowski was a prime factor in the creation of the Queen's Plate, the first organized thoroughbred horse race in North America.

Casimir Gzowski was the great-grandfather of CBC radio personality Peter Gzowski.

He also joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he was a cultural commentator on CBC Radio's Morningside with Peter Gzowski.

The contract was awarded to the Vancouver engineering firm of MacDonnell, Gzowski and Company and work started in 1907.

During the 1980s and 1990s he was a frequent guest and sometimes host of Morningside with Peter Gzowski.

Peter Gzowski was the host from 1971 to 1974.

In 1841, Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski arrived in Canada from the partitioned Poland via U. S. A. and for 50 years worked in engineering, military and community sectors in Toronto and Southern Ontario, for which he was knighted by Queen Victoria.

But the program was most associated with legendary Canadian broadcaster Peter Gzowski, who assumed the host's chair in 1982.

MacGill's paper, Factors Affecting the Mass Production of Aeroplanes, won the Gzowski Medal from the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1941.

In 1997, when Peter Gzowski retired from CBC Radio, the CBC discontinued Gzowski's Morningside and Ian Brown's Sunday Morning, replacing both with the new This Morning.

Sir Casimir S. Gzowski from Historic Sites of Ontario.

Gzowski hosted the last episode of Morningside from the Temple Gardens Mineral Spa Resort in Moose Jaw.

Sunnyside's western section, from the Humber River to west of the Bathing Pavilion is named in honour of Casimir Gzowski, a pioneer engineer in the building of railways in Canada.

At the western end of Gzowski Park is the Queen Elizabeth Way Monument, relocated from its location between the east and west lanes of the then Queen Elizabeth Way, which had its starting point from the Humber River.

When Gzowski retired in 1997, Morningside and the network's Sunday public affairs show Sunday Morning were replaced by This Morning, which was hosted in its first year by Michael Enright and Avril Benoit.

The magazine struggled to compete with television in the 1960s by increasing its international coverage and attempting to keep up with the sexual revolution through a succession of editors including Gzowski and Charles Templeton.

* Gzowski co-wrote the song, " One Single River " with Ian Tyson.

* Leslie and Erik Nielsen laugh it up ( audio ) 1991 Peter Gzowski interview with Leslie and Erik Nielsen

Some of these licence records show Gzowski and Macpherson were in partnership with another Muskoka lumberman, Walter Moberly.

Executive producer Alex Frame and producer Bob Ennis decided to try a show that would be comparable to The Tonight Show instead, changing the name of the show to Canada After Dark and replacing host Peter Gzowski with veteran comedic actor Soles.

He has also supported literacy through his involvement with the Dartmouth Book and Writing Awards and the Peter Gzowski Golf Tournament for Literacy.

For several years she regularly appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular radio program Morningside in conversations with Peter Gzowski.

Other honorary alumni award-winning filmmaker include Costa-Gavras, skier Nancy Greene Raine, Milton Wong, Doris Shadbolt, dancer and choreographer Judith Marcuse, economist Jeffrey Sachs, Peter Gzowski, Douglas Coupland, Romeo Dallaire, Canadian businessman Stephen Jarislowsky, Iain Baxter, American agriculturalist Cary Fowler, Martha Piper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rick Hansen.

Veteran Canadian journalist Peter Gzowski says that Gretzky also seemed to be able to, in effect, slow down time.

Peter Gzowski says that elite athletes in all sports understand the game so well, and in such detail, that they can instantly recognize and capitalize upon emerging patterns of play.

Juried by Bonnie Burnard, Mavis Gallant, and Peter Gzowski.

Juried by Margaret Atwood, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Peter Gzowski.

Prominent writers during this period included Robert Fulford, Peter Gzowski, Peter C. Newman, Trent Frayne, June Callwood, McKenzie Porter, and Christina McCall.

* 2003-Gzowski College at Trent University opens in honour of Peter Gzowski

* 2006-The Peter Gzowski Festival of Stories

* 2006-Georgina Public Libraries renamed their Sutton Branch the Peter Gzowski Branch

* A Peter Gzowski Reader

* Celebration of Peter Gzowski

* Peter Gzowski: An Electric Life by Marco Adria, ECW Press, Toronto, 1994.

* Remembering Peter Gzowski: A Book of Tributes by Edna Barker and Shelagh Rogers

* Peter Gzowski: A Biography by R. B.

* CBC Digital Archives – Peter Gzowski: Voice of Canada

* ' Peter Gzowski and the Canadian Conversation ' by Marco Adria

* ' I Remember Peter Gzowski ,' by Steve Holt

fr: Peter Gzowski