Joseph Schull was a Canadian

Canada

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 playwright and historian who wrote more than two dozen books and 200 plays for radio and television.

Born in Watertown, South Dakota

Watertown, South Dakota

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, he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Moose Jaw is a city in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Moose Jaw River. It is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, west of Regina. Residents of Moose Jaw are known as Moose Javians. It is best known as a retirement and tourist city that serves as a hub to the hundreds of small towns...

 in 1913. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan

University of Saskatchewan

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 and Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

. In the 1930s, he worked in advertising. During World War II, he was an Intelligence and Information Officer with the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...

. After the war, he focused on his writing.

Selected bibliography

• Far Distant Ships: An Official Account of Canadian Naval Operations in World War II (1950)
• 100 years of banking in Canada : a history of the Toronto-Dominion Bank (1958)
• Battle for the rock : the story of Wolfe and Montcalm (1960)
• Laurier (1965)
• Rebellion (1971)
• Edward Blake: The Man of the Other Way (1975)
• Edward Blake : leader and exile, 1881-1912 (1976)
• Ontario Since 1867 (1978)
• The great Scot : a biography of Donald Gordon (1979)

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