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Place of Birth: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada
About John Ballem
- John Bishop Ballem (1925–2010) was a Canadian murder mystery/thriller novelist.
- While best known for his novels about the oil industry and private law, Ballem was also a naval air force pilot, assistant professor, specialist in the oil industry and private law lawyer.
- He was an acknowledged legal authority on oil and gas and winner of the Petroleum Law Foundation Prize in 1973.
- He was a member of the Crime Writers of Canada, the Probus Club of Calgary and the Air Crew Association of Alberta: Southern Alberta Branch.
- In 2009, the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association of Alberta awarded John the Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship.
- He was also a Calgary Herald world travels reporter and visited many exotic locations such as both poles.
- Ballem's most important and well known work is the internationally recognized authoritative text,The Oil and Gas Lease in Canada, a standard legal reference that went to four editions, the final being 2008.
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