Norman Ward

Norman Ward

OC FRSC
BornMay 10, 1918
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
DiedFebruary 6, 1990
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
OccupationHumorist, academic
Period1930s-1980s
Notable worksMice in the Beer, The Government of Canada

Norman McQueen Ward OC FRSC (May 19, 1918 – February 6, 1990) was a Canadian writer and academic.[1] A longtime professor of political science at the University of Saskatchewan, his writings spanned a wide variety of genres from politics to biography to humor.[1]

Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario,[2] he was educated at McMaster University and the University of Toronto.[2] He joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1944,[3] staying with the institution until his retirement in 1985.[2]

The writer and editor of several important political science texts on politics in Canada and Saskatchewan,[1] he also published three books of humor.[1] He won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1961 for Mice in the Beer, his first collection of humorous essays.[2] His later humor works were The Fully-Processed Cheese (1964) and Her Majesty's Mice (1977).[2]

He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1962, and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976.[3]

He also served on the advisory board for the first edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia in 1985.[4]

He died in 1990 in Saskatoon.[2] Jimmy Gardiner: Relentless Liberal, his biography of former Saskatchewan Premier James Garfield Gardiner, was published posthumously later that year.[5]

Works

  • The Government of Canada (multiple editions 1947–1970, coedited with Robert MacGregor Dawson)
  • The Canadian House of Commons: Representation (1950)
  • Mice in the Beer (1960)
  • The Public Purse: A Study in Canadian Democracy (1962)
  • The Fully-Processed Cheese (1964)
  • Politics in Saskatchewan (1968)
  • Bilingualism and Biculturalism in the Canadian House of Commons (1968)
  • Her Majesty's Mice (1977)
  • Jimmy Gardiner: Relentless Liberal (1990)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Norman Ward at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Norman Ward: Political scientist, author made fun of academic life". The Globe and Mail, February 7, 1990.
  3. ^ a b "Ward, Norman McQueen (1918–90)". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.
  4. ^ "Magnificent, colorful Canadian Encyclopedia soon becomes essential". Ottawa Citizen, September 7, 1985.
  5. ^ "Gardiner unstoppable Liberal boss". Toronto Star, July 14, 1990.
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