Career
Hunter emigrated to Canada in 1913 at the age of 22 and began his journalistic career with the Peterborough, Ontario Farm and Dairy newspaper in that same year. He was an author of early evangelical Christian thrillers, notably The Mystery of March Saba (1940). Hunter was the editor of the Evangelical Christian magazine, published in Toronto.
Hunter wrote Christian adventure novels which sold thousands of copies in Canada and the United States of America. In 1940 J.H. Hunter married Margaret Elizabeth (Diggins).
They had three sons.