Willson Woodside

Charles Willson Woodside (1905 – May 29, 1991) was a Canadian journalist well-known for his World War II reporting.

During the Second World War, he was a member of the Allied press corps and reported nightly on the radio for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Woodside also served in the post-war period as the executive director of the United Nations Association in Canada.

In 1954, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as a Tory in a by-election in the Toronto riding of Trinity, losing to Liberal Donald Carrick by 1352 votes.

He then joined the political science department of the University of Guelph, Ontario, as a founding member of the faculty and also chair.