Passing the Beaver hat

Effective with its August/September issue, The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine will have a new editor. Mark Reid was most recently the assistant news editor at CanWest News Service in Winnipeg.

A graduate of both Dalhousie University and the University of King's College, Reid has worked as a journalist and editor in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and Manitoba. He oversaw the development and launch of the University of Calgary's award-winning weekly newspaper; and edited OnCampus, a quarterly magazine distributed to 30,000 University employees, donors and affiliates.

The previous editor of The Beaver, Doug Whiteway, resigned in February. The Beaver has a paid circulation of about 46,000.