Author:James David Edgar

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James David Edgar
(1841–1899)

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law student, legal editor of the Toronto Globe, an alderman on Toronto's city council, and an organizer for the Liberal Party in Ontario later elected to the House of Commons. He was also rare among English Canadians of the time for his sympathy for the rights of French-Canadians.

Works

Poetry

Collections

The White Stone Canoe: A Legend of the Ottawas (1885).
This Canada of Ours and Other Poems (1893).

Individual poems

Arouse Ye, Brave Canadians
Canadian Autumn Tints
Canadian Camping Song
The Canadian Song Sparrow
Euthanasy
The Great Divide
Keswick Bay
Lia Fail
Nunc est Bibendum, translated from Horace's original Latin
On the Saguenay, translated from Louis-Honoré Fréchette's original French
A Summer Night, translated from Louis-Honoré Fréchette's original French
This Canada of Ours
The Thistle of Scotland
The White Stone Canoe
Un Canadian errant, translated from Antoine Gérin-Lajoie's original French

Other

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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