 Joining the civil service through his productive membership of the secretariat in the Rowell @-@ Sirois Commission of 1937 , the Canadian government entrusted him with the position of Chief Censor of the nation in 1942 to combat negative coverage of Canada 's role in the Second World War at home and overseas . Resigning in 1944 , much to the regret of the authorities , Eggleston found work as an academic at Carleton University in 1947 , establishing the Carleton School of Journalism upon accepting his lectureship ; he directed the faculty until 1966 . Eggleston died in Ottawa on 13 June 1986 at the age of 85 . 
