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(courtesy of Encyclopedia of Newfoundland & Labrador) Broadcaster. Born: Heart's Content. Educated: Heart's Content. Married: Bertha Thistle. Rowe began his career in telegraphy just before his fourteenth birthday with the Western Union Telegraph Co. at Heart's Content. A year later he left Newfoundland and worked as a telegrapher in Baltimore, Boston, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa before taking a permanent position in Montreal From 1929 he was employed with Canadian Marconi Ltd. in Montreal, but returned to Newfoundland in 1931. In 1939 Rowe began working with the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (radio station VONF) in St. John's, at first as a telegraph operator transcribing foreign news from Morse. Increasingly involved in news broadcasting, by 1949 he was news editor, the station being taken over by the CBC. He remained with the CBC until his retirement in 1970, by which time he was regional news director for the network. In retirement Rowe pursued his interests in the history of telegraphy and of the Heart's Content area, publishing a book about his hometown's role in international communications, I Have Touched the Greatest Ship (1976).
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