title: John Melady
text: # 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
  