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Kenneth Sidney Bagnell was born on September 9, 1934, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
He was a journalist, broadcaster, author, and retired United Church of Canada minister. He studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (B.A. in Psychology) and Pine Hill Divinity Hall, now the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax (B.D.). It was at Mount Allison that his interest in broadcasting and journalism began. He wrote the books “The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada” (1980) and “Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians” (1989).
In 1958, he married Barbara Robar. He died on February 15, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario.