John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian

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and non-fiction author. He was born in

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and spent his youth in a number of communities in that province. As an adult he moved to

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, living in communities such as Orangeville, Port Carling and finally Brighton where he died at age 83. Braithwaite won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1972 for his book ''The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car''. The 1977 Canadian film ''

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'' was based on Braithwaite's 1965 novel of that name.

Works

*1962: ''Voices of the Wild'' *1962: ''The Muffled Man'' (Little, Brown) *1963: ''Whooping Crane Adventure'' **1988 reissue (Gage) *1965: ''Why Shoot the Teacher'' , **2002

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reissue (McClelland and Stewart) *1967: ''Canada: wonderland of surprises'' (Dodd, Mead Wonderland) *1968?: ''Servant or master? A casebook of mass media'' (Book Society of Canada) *1969: ''Never Sleep Three in a Bed'' *1970: ''The Western Plains'' (Natural Science of Canada) *1971: ''The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car'' (McClelland and Stewart) , **1975

reissue (McClelland and Stewart) *1973: ''A Privilege and a Pleasure'' (J.J. Douglas) *1974?: ''Sick kids, the story of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto'' (McClelland and Stewart) *1974: ''Max Braithwaite's Ontario'' (J.J. Douglas) *1977: ''The hungry thirties, 1930-1940'' (Natural Science of Canada) *1978: ''Lusty Winter'' (McClelland and Stewart) *1979: ''The Commodore's Barge is Alongside'' (McClelland and Stewart) *1981: ''McGruber's Folly'' (McClelland and Stewart) *1986: ''All the Way Home'' (McClelland and Stewart) hardcover ,

External links

''The Chronicle'' (Barton, Vermont): Max Braithwaite obituary
* 1911 births 1995 deaths Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian male novelists People from Rural Municipality Wreford No. 280, Saskatchewan Stephen Leacock Award winners Writers from Saskatchewan Writers from Ontario 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers 20th-century non-fiction writers {{Canada-novelist-stub