Elwy Yost
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| Born |
Elwy McMurran Yost July 10, 1925 Weston, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | July 21, 2011 (aged 86) West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Television host |
| Years active | 1952–1999 |
| Known for |
Passport to Adventure Magic Shadows Saturday Night at the Movies |
| Spouse(s) | Lila Ragnhild Melby |
| Children | Christopher and Graham |
Elwy McMurran Yost, CM (July 10, 1925 – July 21, 2011) was a television host, best known for hosting CBC Television's weekday Passport to Adventure series from 1965 to 1967, and TVOntario's weekday Magic Shadows, from 1974 until the mid-1980s, and Saturday Night at the Movies from 1974 to 1999.
Born in Weston, Ontario, the son of pickle manufacturer Elwy Honderich Yost and Annie Josephine McMurran. In his youth, the senior Yost would give his son a dime a week to go see a movie on condition that he'd then recount the plot. Yost graduated from the Weston Collegiate and Vocational School in 1943.
He began studies at the University of Toronto in 1943, and studied engineering but left, in 1944, after failing his exams and joined the Canadian Infantry in 1944. He was honorably discharged in September 1945. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948, he worked variously in construction, at the Canadian National Exhibition, made an independent film with a classmate and acted in summerstock theatre. In 1951, he was working in the circulation department of the Toronto Star where he met his future wife, Lila Melby. He also worked in the Avro Canada personnel department from 1953 until 1959 when he and most of the staff were laid off due to the cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. He then worked as an English and History teacher at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario.
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