(At that time, the University's football/rugby team, the Queen's Tricolour, were the winners of the Grey Cup for three consecutive years, and it is a common myth that when the current call letters CFRC were assigned, their meaning was "Canada's Famous Rugby Champions", however the relationship was purely coincidental).
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Lorne Greene (1915–1987), CBC wartime announcer, later star of Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica
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Charles P. B. Taylor (1935–1997), radio/TV/print journalist (Reuters in London 1955-'62; Globe & Mail in China 1962-'70s), author, horsebreeder (son of E. P. Taylor)
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Barber was born and grew up in Port Credit, which is part of Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, attending Lorne Park Secondary School before moving to Kingston, Ontario to attend Queen's University, where he volunteered at campus radio station CFRC-FM and performed at campus pubs.