Carrie Best
Carrie M. Best, OC, ONS (March 4, 1903 – July 24, 2001) was a Black Canadian journalist.
Born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, a daughter to James and Georgina Ashe Prevoe, she married Albert T. Best in 1925. In 1946 she founded The Clarion, the first black-owned and published Nova Scotia newspaper. In 1952 she started a radio show, The Quiet Corner, which was aired for 12 years. From 1968 to 1975 she was a columnist for The Pictou Advocate, a newspaper based in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
In 1977, she published an autobiography, That Lonesome Road.
In 1974, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1979. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Nova Scotia in 2002.[1] She is commemorated on a postage stamp to be issued by Canada Post on 1 February 2011.[2]
