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Macmillan of Canada. Towards the Last Spike was written in 1952 by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt. It is a long narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada, that of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), from 1871 through 1885. The poem won Pratt the Governor General's Award, Canada's top ...
This was the site of the official residence of the Governors of Acadia / Nova Scotia since at least 1686. Williams House (Annapolis Royal) 1715 [85] 1715 [85] Annapolis Royal. Possibly the oldest, unaltered and fully original, privately owned, wooden building in Canada.
John Thompson (17 Mar 1938 – 26 Apr 1976) was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair. [1][2] Thompson's second and best-known book ...
In Flanders Fields. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
Member of the Order of Canada. Spouse. Ruth Colombo (passed April 26, 2024) Children. 3. Website. colombo.ca. John Robert Colombo, CM (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian writer, editor, and poet. He has published over 200 titles, including major anthologies and reference works.
John McCrae. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during the World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
Barton has published twelve books of poetry. Since 1980 his poems have appeared in seventy-five magazines and thirty anthologies in North America, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia. [5] Barton was co-editor of Arc Poetry Magazine from 1990 to 2003. He edited The Malahat Review [6] from 2004 to 2018 and was poetry editor for Winnipeg's ...
No. 412 Squadron RCAF. Battles/wars. World War II. John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) [1][2][3] was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.