Ray Guy (22 April 1939 – 14 May 2013) was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.
[1] He was born in Come By Chance, Newfoundland, to George Hynes Guy and Alice Louisa Adams, but was raised and schooled in Arnold's Cove,[2] the community that was to provide fodder for many of his columns.
Guy studied journalism at Ryerson Institute of Technology (now Toronto Metropolitan University).
His output included political satire and humorous essays on Newfoundland outport life.
In 1979, Gordon Pinsent created Up at Ours, a half-hour CBC St. John's television series that starred Mary Walsh as the owner of a boarding house and Ray Guy as the principal boarder.