Fonds paa-9276 - Philip Godsell fonds

Philip Henry Godsell, 1889-1961, was born in Wolverhampton, England. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and arrived at York Factory, Manitoba in 1906. He worked for the HBC until 1929 in locations such as the Keewatin, Lake Superior, Mackenzie River and Western Arctic districts. He worked as an auditor in Winnipeg from 1929-1936, but became a full time as a writer and journalist from 1936-1941. During the Second World War, he worked as an auditor for the Federal Government. He later worked as an auditor for Canadian Pacific Airlines. He joined the Glenbow Foundation in 1956 as a historical researcher. Throughout his life, he produced numerous books, short stories, radio broadcasts and articles that focused on his experiences as a fur trader, Arctic traveler, and pioneer and his encounters with the Inuit, First Nations Peoples, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and pioneering. His published books include Arctic Trader, Red Hunters of the Snows, They Got Their Man. His outdoor, adventure and detective short stories were published in a wide variety of journals and newspapers. In 1920, Philip Godsell married the author, Jean Turner.