Thomas raddall biography
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(RADDALL, Thomas Head). BARKHOUSE, Joyce. A Name for Himself : A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall. Toronto : Natural Heritage Books, (1990). First Natural Heritage Books Printing. "Printed and bound in Canada by Imprimerie Gagné Ltée". Pp [i]-x,1-86. With 15 b&w photos as well as other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), photo-illustrated glossy white card covers, with red & blue lettering to front & spine.
Thomas Head Raddall, O.C., F.R.S.C. (b. November 13, 1903, Hythe, Kent, England – d. April 1, 1994, Liverpool, Nova Scotia).
Joyce Carman Barkhouse, née Killam CM ONS (b. May 3, 1913, Woodville, Kings County, Nova Scotia – d. February 2, 2012, Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia) Canadian children's writer best known for writing historical fiction.
"Twelve months in any place, my friend, is ganska a weary while
And seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle ..."
So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years
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Finding the Words
The man who would become one of Nova Scotia’s most celebrated novelists and historians moved to the province from England with his family when he was ten. Four years later, living in Halifax, ung Tom’s life turned upside down.
In 1917, Tom and his family felt the full force of the Halifax Explosion, but flydde with minor injuries. A few months later, they learned their absent military officer father and husband had died overseas in France at the Battle of Amiens. Faced with a dire economic situation, Tom left school; he was in Grade 10, aged fourteen. He would never go to school again, but he would later win multiple literary awards and receive honorary degrees.
The work young Tom funnen, lying about his age, was as a telegrapher —tapping messages as “a brasspounder” on ships at sea. He toughed it out for several years, and sailed an estimated “thirty-five thousand miles on the cold and stormy North Atlantic.” Next came a year on lonely Sable Island, where in
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Thomas Head Raddall
Canadian writer
For the British Olympic shooter, see Thomas Raddall (sport shooter).
Thomas Head Raddall | |
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Raddall, c. 1958 | |
| Born | (1903-11-13)13 November 1903 Hythe, England |
| Died | 1 April 1994(1994-04-01) (aged 90) |
| Occupation | writer |
Thomas Head RaddallOC FRSC (13 November 1903 – 1 April 1994) was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction.[1]
Early life
[edit]Raddall was born in Hythe, Kent, England in 1903, the son of an Army officer, also named Thomas Head Raddall, and Ellen (née Gifford) Raddall. In 1913 the family moved to Nova Scotia, where his father had taken a training position with the Canadian Militia. The elder Raddall then saw active service during the First World War and was killed in action at Amiens in August 1918.
Raddall attended Chebucto School in Halifax until 6 December 1917, when the school was converted into a temporary morgue in the wake of the Halifax Explosion. T