Anne Petrie


Anne Petrie is an award-winning broadcaster and was most known as the host of Canada Live and Coast to Coast on CBC Newsworld during its early years. Prior to that she was the primary news anchor and host of CBWT's 24Hours LateNight from October 1985 to July 1989.
She has written several books, including Ethnic Vancouver, Vancouver Secrets, More Vancouver Secrets, A guidebook to ethnic Vancouver : walking, shopping, and eating tours of the ethnic neighborhoods of Vancouver and Gone to an Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers.
She has also hosted Anne Petrie's Talk TV and Absolutely Canadian, both on CBC Newsworld, and The Moral Divide, a co-production with VisionTV.
She is the daughter of actress Doris Petrie.