English: Thomas Raddall was born in 1903 on Friday, November 13th, and good fortune wearing a wreath of literary laurels, has smiled on him ever since. Three-time winner of the Governor-General's award for Distinguished Literature, Nova Scotia's most successful literary salt has written boldly and vividly of Canada's pioneer beginnings in the Maritimes and with magnificent artistry in his brilliant historical novel: Halifax, Warden of the North. His short stories have been compared with such masters as Walter Scott, Stevenson, de Maupassant, Kipling and Conrad.
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