He seemed the perfect news delivery voice for the CBC - staid, buttoned down and a solid newsman.

BlogTO takes a look back at an anchor for his times that became the voice of a nation. 

Among the things you may not know - Knowlton was his middle name. His given first moniker was "Cyril." (Which one would you have chosen?) 

News was in his blood from an early age, producing his own "newspaper" at age 8.

And he was married to fellow journalist Lorraine Thomson for 32 years, one of four times he got hitched. 

When Knowlton Nash Was The Most Famous TV News Anchor In Canada