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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ALLAN FOTHERINGHAM

“Allan Fotheringham is a gifted and incisive writer. He wrote with penetrating insight and satire — often mischievous, almost never cruel. In private, Allan was caring and conscientious — sensitive to the feelings and problems of others, especially toward those who struggle with misfortune. The young and shy enjoyed his company because he was self-effacing, encouraging, and supportive toward those who were tentative and unsure in conversation in whatever context.”

— The Right Honourable Edward Schreyer,

Canada’s Twenty-Second Governor General

“It is a little-known fact of Canadian journalism that I drew the illustrations and wrote the columns while Allan took frequent sabbaticals at the Betty Ford Clinic.”

— Roy Peterson,

Cartoonist

“Dr. Foth, for decades, has surgically eviscerated his deserving political and other defenceless victims. What an accomplished life — showing what a fearless columnist/writer should be!”

— Michael Harcourt,

Former Premier of British Columbia

“Allan was our mother’s favourite child. That’s true. After his long, serious, and nearly fatal illness, I received a letter from Allan. In the envelope was one folded sheet of paper. In a recognizable scrawl were the words ‘I’m back.’ Following our frequent Saskatchewan family reunions, we lived in dread and fear of reading about ourselves and our outrageously exaggerated antics in the back page of Maclean’s. Allan’s long-time friend and cartoonist Roy Peterson always picked up the spirit of the occasion. Together they created Canadiana.”

— Irene McEown,

Allan Fotheringham’s Sister

“Fotheringham’s public reputation — the irreverent balloon-popper of the nation’s gaseous elite — overshadowed his real gift. When he wanted to be, when he turned his eye to life outside the halls of power, he was the best pure writer columnizing in North America. It was that persona of Fotheringham I admired — not the ironist but the writer who found the heart of things. A poet lurked underneath that smirk, and I sometimes think that, to our loss, his ambition overtook his talent.”

— Pete McMartin,

Vancouver Sun Columnist

“Allan Fotheringham is a deliciously subversive humour monger, a satirist with a mildly left-of-centre sensibility that he aims at pricking the bubbled-up egos of self-styled important people, usually politicians. In an inordinately polite and respectful country, his kind of wit is entertaining, refreshing, and absolutely essential, and he is one of Canada’s best writers to boot.”

— John Laxton,

Vancouver Lawyer and Developer

“My brother, Allan, and I shared a bedroom for almost the first twenty years of our lives, he on the top bunk and me below. We shared the same clothes, played on the same athletic teams, and competed every day — one trying to outdo the other. But how in hell that tight relationship allowed him to share my earned doctorate, I will never know!”

— The Real Dr. John (“Jack”) Fotheringham

“Allan Fotheringham is one of this country’s superb journalists — honoured by his peers, feared by the powerful, respected by all who made it a habit to read his vivid observations, criticisms, and inspired opinions about the state of Canada and the lives of Canadians.”

— Anna Porter,

Author of The Ghosts of Europe