Harry Thomas "Tom" Patterson O.C., O.Ont., B.A., LL.D. (June 11 1920 - February 23, 2005) was a Stratford, Ontario born journalist who went on to found the Stratford Festival of Canada, the largest theatre festival in Canada. Patterson was a veteran of World War II and a journalist writing for Maclean's magazine in 1953. From the time that he was a teenager, he had thought that his home town of Stratford, Ontario should be home to performances of Shakespeare's plays. Wikipedia
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Tom Patterson, the former journalist who spearheaded the Stratford Festival of Canada in the 1950s, has died. www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/02/23/Arts/pattersono...