Ralph Snelgrove

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Ralph Trapnell Snelgrove (1914–1990) was a Canadian radio and television pioneer, who obtained one of the first television licences issued in Canada and built TV station CKVR in Barrie, Ontario in 1955.

Born in Newfoundland, Snelgrove was employed by Metropolitan Broadcasting in Toronto before becoming manager of CFOS, a radio station in Owen Sound Ontario in 1940. He moved to Barrie to set up the town's first radio station CKBB in 1949. He later founded Collingwood, Ontario 's first radio statio CKCB in 1965.

The station still bears call letters that represent he and wife (CK V alerie R alph).

He went on to sell his television stations to Allan Waters and became a director of Waters' company, CHUM Limited. He was also the first president of the Central Canada Broadcasters Association.

He received an LLD from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario in 1981.

One of his sons is Timothy Snelgrove, the founder of Timothy's World Coffee.