Charles Tory Bruce

Charles Tory Bruce (May 11, 1906 – December 19, 1971) was a Canadian poet, journalist and fiction writer. Born and raised in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia, he attended Mount Allison University and joined the Canadian Press in 1928. In 1944, he served as a war correspondent. He rose through the CP hierarchy to become general superintendent in 1945 until his retirement in 1963.

As a creative writer, he published the poetry collections Wild Apples (1927), Tomorrow's Tide (1932), Personal Note (1941), Grey Ship Moving (1945), The Flowing Summer (1947) and The Mulgrave Road (1951), the novel The Channel Shore (1954) and the short story collection The Township of Time (1959). He was most noted for The Mulgrave Road, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama at the 1951 Governor General's Awards.

His poetry also appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Saturday Night, Canadian Poetry and The Saturday Evening Post. Mount Allison University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 1952, and the year after his Governor General's Award win he served as a judge in the same category.

His final book, a history of the Southam News company titled News and the Southams, was published in 1968.