- He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943.
- He started out earning $10 a night doing 'chalk-talks' - drawing caricatures in chalk as he told stories to audiences during the Great Depression.
- In 2007, he was given the Gemini Award for Lifetime Achievement in Radio and Television.
- Don Harron has published several books, bestsellers in Canada, using his Charlie Farquharson persona. These books include "Charlie Farquharson's Histry of Canada" and "Charlie Farquharson's Jogfree of Canda, the Whirld and Other Places", modelled after 1066: And All That (1939) (by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman), as filtered through James Joyce, and written in Charlie's characteristic country bumpkin style. Charlie and his wife Valeda Drain Farquharson ("she was a Drain on her father's side") continue to reside in Parry Sound, Ontario.
- He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 23, 1980 for his services to performing arts in Canada.
- As a teenager, he worked as a farm hand in rural Ontario. He developed his Charlie Farquharson persona during this time.
- Did a 5 minute segment on CFRB1010 AM Toronto on weekends.
- A prolific, chameleon-like character actor of 1960's sci-fi TV shows, seen to excellent effect in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) (as Kitt Kittridge), The Time Tunnel (1966) (as Robin Hood), The Outer Limits (1963) and The Invaders (1967).
- His parents owned and operated 'Harron's Cleaners and Dyers' in Toronto.
- Father-in-law of John Walsh.
- Father of Mary Harron and Kelley Harron.
- Brother-in-law of Patrician McKinnon and Jackie Rae.
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 2007)
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