====== Brokenshire, Norman Ernest ====== (10 June 1898-4 May 1965), radio announcer. (Norman Brokenshire) Born in Murchison, Ont. Parents: William Henry Brokenshire and his wife Georgina Jones. During the 1920s, Norman Brokenshire was well known throughout North America as a broadcaster and as a personality in the new medium of radio, being, in fact, one of the earliest celebrities of the electronic media. He was not a Glengarrian, but he was of Glengarry connection through his father, who was minister of Zion Church, Apple Hill, 1923-1926. The //Glengarry News//, 6 March 1925, noted that Norman Brokenshire, son of Rev. W. H. Brokenshire, Apple Hill, was the broadcaster of President Coolidge’s inauguration. In fact, Brokenshire was to be a broadcaster for presidential inaugurations over the next three decades. Not surprisingly, Norman Brokenshire became on one celebrated GC occasion the star attraction when he appeared at a social at Apple Hill. Norman Brokenshire wrote an autobiography, //This Is Norman Brokenshire// (1954), but it has no GC refs. Norman Brokenshire is mentioned in many of the numerous works on the history of American radio. He has his entry in the //DAB// (the //Dictionary of American Biography//), but he is omitted from its successor, the //American National Biography//. The //DAB// firmly describes the Rev. William Henry Brokenshire as having served churches “in remote areas of Canada” as well as the eastern U. S., but he is remembered otherwise (//Zion//, MacMillan) to have been a linguist of unusual attainments. At the time of the Church Union controversy, his “Church Union Song,” dated at The Manse, Apple Hill, was published in the Montreal //Gazette// and reprinted in the Cornwall //Standard,// 12 July 1923. ---- //DAB// Supplement 7: 1961-1965 * //Zion United Church Apple Hill, Ontario 1889-1989// (1989) *MacMillan, //Kirk//, 346 * Bill Reany (Beamsville newspaper man), “The Glengarry Connection,” //Glengarry News// 20 Jan. 1982, recalls the social [<6>]