Career
His career started in 1939 when he sold a script to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written more than a thousand different dramatic works for stage, screen, television, and radio. One of his earliest successes was the radio play They"re All Afraid (1944), which was written for the Canadian Broadcasting Company program Stage "44.
The play received much criticism for depicting life in Canada negatively at a time when it was thought that boosting wartime morale was more appropriate.
lieutenant was later adapted by Peterson for the stage. lieutenant"s Fun to Sing (1948) Passport to Canada (1949) Iron from the North (1955).
