Norman Ward

Norman McQueen Ward OC FRSC (May 19, 1918 – February 6, 1990) was 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]