[1] Upon the birth of his younger brother William G. Saywell, the family moved to British Columbia in 1937.
[1] His father had received a job position to become Lake Cowichan first high school principal.
[4] Among his books were The Office of Lieutenant-Governor: A Study in Canadian Government and Politics, which won the Delancey K. Jay Prize at Harvard University.
Just Call Me Mitch: The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn, published in 1991, won the Floyd Chalmers Award for the best book on Ontario history.
He also interpreted Canadian, British and European history for thousands of high-school students across Ontario through close to a dozen textbooks with his friend John Ricker.