Merrill Denison

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Merrill Denison (b. 1893, d. 1975) was a prolific and accomplished playwright, born in Detroit and raised in Ontario. Denison's mother was American (described as a United Empire Loyalist, and his father was of American Revolutionary stock.^[1]

In 1921, after pursuing studies in architecture, he became Art Directort of Hart House Theatre, Toronto. Denison soon began to write comedies, some of which were conceived at his summer home in Bon Echo and performed in in the Tweed Playhouse in Tweed, Ontario. As author of "The Romance of Canada", a highly successful series of historical plays broadcast in 1932-32, he received wide acclaim as a pioneer in radio drama. During the following decades he devoted his energies to this field, preparing numerous plays for broadcast in the United States.

Increasingly interested in business history, Denison wrote several popular histories of Canadian corporations, including Harvest Triumphant: the Story of Massey-Harris, during the 1950s and 60s.

1 Plays
2 Books and papers
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plays

Henry Hudson and other plays: Six plays for the microphone from the Romance of Canada series of radio broadcasts,
America in action; a series of one-act plays for young people dealing with freedom and democracy
- The U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony: Play in one act (1941)
- Brothers in arms, a play in one act (1923)
The Romance of Canada (1931)

[edit] Books and papers

The educational program (1935) - a discussion of facts and techniques in educational broadcasting
An American father talks to his son (1939)
Klondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey (1943)
Prodigy at sixty (1943)
Canada, our dominion neighbor (1944)
Harvest Triumphant: the Story of Massey-Harris (1949)
Bristles and brushes: A footnote to the story of American war production (1949)
The Barley and the Stream: the Molson story (1955)
The power to go: the Story of the Automotive Industry (1956)
Canada's first bank: A History of the Bank of Montreal (1966) (in two volumes)
Marsh Hay (1979)
The people's power; the history of Ontario Hydro (unknown)