Fred Hurter

(July 19, 1922 – March 30, 1992)

Fred Hurter, Jr. (Alfred Max Hurter) was an Ontario fan active in the 1940s, beginning while a student at St. Andrew College for Boys in Aurora, ON, Canada.

In 1941, he produced Censored for the first time. It was probably Canada's third fanzine and the first to appear in an APA. He originally named it Rocket and ran off a cover with that title in 1941. When he learned that Walt Daugherty had already published a fanzine with that name, he lettered "CENSORED" over the title. With some assistance from Beak Taylor, he published it for a couple years, suspended it, and revived it; it lived into the new decade with six issues total.

He was a founding member of The National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) in 1941, and in 1942, he formed the apa Canadian Amateur Fan Publishers, designed to unite and promote fanzines. Also that year, Hurter moved to Montreal to attend McGill University, and joined the Montreal Science Fiction Society.

After graduating with a degree in chemical engineering, he joined the family business (then known as Stadler Hurter), a company that designed pulp and paper mills. In 1948 he married Agnes Cadieux; they had four children. Fred was born in Bucharest to Swiss and German parents, and had "handicaps of childhood polio". He died in 1992 of ALS.

• "Fiction Stranger Than Truth, State Fans of Fantasy," The Expositor (Brantford, ON, Canada), April 25, 1944, p. 15.
• Obituary
• Corporate history of Klockner Stadler Hurter

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Censored

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 2014 — Faned Award Hall of Fame

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Person

1922—1992

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