John Melady
# John Melady

John Melady is a Canadian non-fiction author from Seaforth, Ontario Canada . A former high school vice-principal in Trenton, Ontario, he writes primarily about 19th and 20th century Canadian history with a usual focus on acts exhibiting courage.

## Education

John Melady received a Bachelor of Arts in English from The University of Western Ontario. He received his Masters of Education from the University of Toronto.

## Book Subjects

The subject of his 2005 book 'Double Trap: The Last Public Hanging in Canada' was his ancestral cousin, 19th century convicted murderer Nicholas Melady, who was jailed and executed in Goderich, Ontario in 1869.

## Books

* Explosion - Trenton Disaster Mika Publishing Company (1980)H.E.Communications 2nd

edition 2014 ISBN 978-0-9938493-0-5

* Escape From Canada!(1981) ISBN 0-7715-9256-6
* Korea: Canada's Forgotten War (1983) ISBN 0-7715-9278-7
* Cross of Valour (1985)
* Overtime Overdue: The Bill Barilko Story (1988) ASIN: B000JLHO72
* Pilots [1989] ISBN 0-7710-5863-2
* Heartbreak and Heroism (1997) ISBN 1-55002-287-3
* Acts of Courage (1998) ISBN 0-590-12449-8
* Star of Courage [2001] ISBN 1-55002-365-9
* Double Trap: The Last Public Hanging in Canada (2005) ISBN 1-55002-571-6
* Pearson's Prize: Canada and the Suez Crisis (2006) ISBN 1-550- 02611-9
* Canadians In Space:The Forever Frontier
* Breakthrough: Canada's Greatest Inventions and Innovations (Dundurn 2013) ISBN 9781459708525
