Longtime Ottawa radio personality Lowell Green has died at the age of 89, according to his family.
Green was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1936 to Canadian parents before moving to Arthur, Ont., where he grew up before attending Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University.
Best known for The Lowell Green Show at 580 CFRA for many years, Green’s radio career began in Brantford. He then worked in Montreal and Sudbury before joining 580 CFRA in 1960.
He retired in 2016, but kept contributing to the radio station until 2019. He took The Lowell Green Show online in 2021, which ran until November 2022. Two of his broadcasts are preserved at Library and Archives Canada.
Green was also a community organizer.
He organized a campaign to help save the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in 1965.
He also organized a campaign encouraging listeners to send bottles of polluted Rideau River water to Queen’s Park, which led to the formation of the Rideau River Conservation Authority in 1966.
He advocated for safer gun laws after a shooting at St. Pius X High School in 1975.
Green also founded the Ottawa Sunday Herald, the predecessor of the Ottawa Sun, in 1983.
“Lowell will be remembered for promoting ‘common sense’ and his ‘island of sanity’. Lowell died suddenly on Saturday, Feb. 14. The family requests privacy at this time,” his family wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.
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