Creery, Timothy William Hulbert

He was the son of Rear-Admiral Wallace Bouchier Creery, CBE, RCN and the brother of Captain Raymond Arbuthnot Bourchier Creery RCN.

He was appointed as a Naval Cadet RCN (With seniority dated 29/08/1945).

He served in Royal Roads (RCNC) 1945. (Transferred to RCN(R)).

He was appointed as a Midshipman RCN(R) (With seniority dated 03/07/1947).

He served in HMCS Donnacona 1947.

He was appointed as an A/Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R) (With seniority dated 03/05/1948).

In 1948 he served in HMCS Donnacona.

He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R).

He was appointed as an A/Lieutenant RCN(R) (With seniority dated 02/05/1950).

In 1950 he served in HMCS Chippawa 1951.

He served in HMCS Donnacona 1952. (He was released 1952.)

In 2001 he was reported as "Tim Creery is an erstwhile journalist, with a peripatetic career in Canada and abroad.

He and his journalist wife Carolyn span the country: She is from Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia; he was born in Victoria, British Columbia. Tim, a graduate of the old naval college at Royal Roads, also holds a B.A. from McGill University.

He started journalism as a farm reporter for the Evening Reporter (now defunct) in Galt (now part of Cambridge), Ontario, and went on to papers in Winnipeg, Lethbridge, and Toronto. After working in news and advertising in London, England, he spent six months studying French at Université de Grenoble in France, then worked for four years, mostly in the parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa, for the Montreal Star. Transferring in 1960 to the Southam newspapers, he worked for three years as their Washington correspondent, returned to Ottwa, had a year at Harvard University as an associate Nieman Fellow, then spent a couple of years as Southam’s first Québec correspondent. After a brief return to Ottawa, he served five years as Southam’s European correspondent based in Paris, followed by four years as editor of the editorial page of the Montreal Gazette. Tim and Carolyn and colleagues then spent three years 1977-1980 on a public-service monthly news review called Report on Confederation, reporting all sides of the crisis in confederation and run by a charitable foundation supported by donations from business, labour, foundations, and subscribers (but none accepted from governments), on the one hand, and donations of work from journalists and other writers, on the other. Later Tim was research director of the Kent Royal Commission on Newspapers, and a contracting writer and editor for various institutions and inquiries. For ten years he produced a monthly e-scroll known as Dotty Age.

He and Carolyn live in Ottawa."