Barry Samuel Broadfoot, CM (January 21, 1926 – November 28, 2003) was a Canadian journalist and oral historian born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
[1][2] Broadfoot's first job at 17 years old was as a cub reporter who had to go to the homes of men killed in action in World War II and obtain photographs to run along with their death notices.
Ten Lost Years, his first in this series of books, published in 1973, was an oral history of the experiences of people during the Great Depression.
He collected the experiences, via taped interviews, during the course of travelling across Canada four times, subsequent to leaving his position with the Vancouver Sun in 1971.
[4] The collected interviews became the basis of Ten Lost Years, a play written by Jack Winter, with music by Cedric Smith.