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In 1920 alone, Ontario doctors wrote more than 650,000 prescriptions for alcohol. [11] Federal prohibition was repealed at the end of 1919. That year, a province-wide referendum saw support of the Ontario ban on sales by a majority of 400,000 votes. [12] The manufacture and the export of liquor was made legal. [13]
Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954) More Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1955) Songs of the High North (London: E. Benn, 1958) The Song of the Campfire, illustrated by Richard Galaburr (New York: Dodd Mead, 1912, 39, 78) The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Other Favorite Poems, jacket drawing by Eric Watts (Dodd Mead ...
Johnston taught high school at Earl Haig Secondary School in North York, Ontario, from 1962 to 1969, before taking a position in the Ethnology Department of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. [ 6 ] [ 10 ] Part of his focus during his 25 years with the museum was the regeneration of the language, values and beliefs of Anishinaabe heritage. [ 11 ]
Raymond Holmes Souster OC (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of poetry by others. [1]
Uproar's Your Only Music, The Fungus Garden: Krista Bridge: novelist, short stories The Virgin Spy, The Eliot Girls: Robert Bringhurst: 1946 poet, author, typographer The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major: Barry Broadfoot: 1926 2003 historian Six War Years, The Immigrant Years: Hélène Brodeur: 1923 2010 historical ...
The first book of poetry published in Canada following the formation of the new Dominion of Canada in 1867 was Dreamland by Charles Mair (1868).. A group of poets now known as the "Confederation Poets", including Charles G. D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and William Wilfred Campbell, came to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s.
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) [1] It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge [2] (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.
William Wilfred Campbell (1 June c. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet.He is often categorized as one of the country's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott; he was a colleague of Lampman and Scott.