Brandon, Manitoba, whom he met while residing in Moose Jaw and with whom he had five children (Alison, Maria, Peter, John and Mick). He was survived also by two common-law partners, Jan Walter and Gillian Howard, whom he called his "Partner for Life". Gzowski was the father of a son (Robert Lawrence Perkins), born in 1961, from an extra-marital relationship. Following his death, his remains were placed in the family tomb at St. James Cemetery in Toronto. Gallery Honours 1974, 1985, 1987 ACTRA Awards for the best host-interviewer on radio 1981 – National Magazine Award for his profile of Wayne Gretzky 1982 – Became host of Morningside on September 6. 1984 – Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of New Brunswick 1986 – Officer of the Order of Canada 1988 – Honorary Doctor of Laws, Trent University 1995 - Governor General's Performing Arts Award 1997 – International Peabody Award for broadcasting 1997 – Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society 1998 – Companion of the Order of Canada. 1999 – Appointed Chancellor of Trent University, a position he held until his death 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 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 Bibliography Books 1974 Peter Gzowski's Book about This Country in the Morning (Hurtig Publishers) 1979 Peter Gzowski's Spring Tonic (Hurtig Publishers) 1980 The Sacrament: A True Story of Survival (Atheneum Books) 1981 The Game of Our Lives (McClelland and Stewart) 1983 An Unbroken Line (McClelland and Stewart) 1985 Morningside Papers (McClelland and Stewart) 1987 The New Morningside Papers (McClelland and Stewart) 1989 The Latest Morningside Papers (McClelland and Stewart) 1989 The Private Voice: A Journal of Reflections (McClelland and Stewart) 1991 The Fourth Morningside Papers (McClelland and Stewart) 1994 The Fifth (and Probably Last) Morningside Papers (McClelland and Stewart) 1998 The Morningside Years (McClelland and Stewart; with foreword by Dalton Camp) 1998 Friends, Moments, Countryside: Selected Columns from Canadian Living, 1993-1998 (McClelland and Stewart) 2001 A Peter Gzowski Reader (McClelland and Stewart) Other 1989 Afterword to Mordecai Richler, The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library) 1994 Introduction to Festival of the Written Arts, The Great Canadian Literary Cookbook (Harbour