Published:
May 24, 2009 09:08 pm EDT
Trot Insider has learned that Earl Gouchie, founder of Cumberland Publishing Ltd. in Amherst, Nova Scotia, died on Saturday, May 23 of an apparent heart attack at his hunting and fishing camp
. He was 74.
Gouchie, who spent 54 years in the newspaper business before selling Cumberland Publishing to Transcontinental Media in 2004, co-founded Atlantic Post Calls, the Maritime harness racing journal, with editor Doug Harkness in 1979.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, May 28 from Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Amherst, NS. There will be no visitation.
Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the family and friends of Earl Gouchie.