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The Durham Region Local Authors Database has been created and maintained by staff of the Ajax Public Library.

Writers are documentarians of historical, and current, popular culture. Using their words, writers provide sketches of: trends; community values; contemporary technologies; and, political and legal mores. Authors write to educate, entertain and edify. The works of a community’s authors add content, and value, to the complete cultural history of any community.

Introducing ...

Please let us introduce you to: Peter J. Hvidsten

My parents, Per and Leila Hvidsten purchased the Uxbridge Times-Journal in January 1952 and operated it until the mid-1970s. They also purchased the Port Perry Star in 1963 with my father publishing until he retired in 1976. I took over after his...