Career
Born and raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, Trueman first joined the city"s Telegraph-Journal newspaper after high school as a cartoonist and reporter, later becoming a sportswriter. He became the paper"s editor-in-chief in 1951, holding the position until his retirement in 1971, and then continued to write a weekly column for the newspaper until 1993. During his time with the Telegraph-Journal, he covered a visit to the city by Amelia Earhart the day before her solo transport-Atlantic flight in 1932, bringing her a copy of the paper directly off the press before she left so that once she landed she could prove she had flown the whole way.
He was also credited with the original discovery of Moncton"s Magnetic Hill.
As a writer, Trueman published numerous books of both humour and regional history. He died at his home in Saint John on April 25, 1995.
