Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, essayist, farmer, store owner, and post master. Born in the Shetland Islands and emigrated to Comox, British Columbia, in 1877. Published essays in Canadian newspapers about living in Vancouver Island. Canada’s Historic Places gives his residence from 1911 as Sandwick Manor, Courtney, British Columbia. Publications include Rural Rhymes and the Sheep-Thief (1896), From Shetland to Vancouver Island: Recollections of Seventy-Five Years (1937). Biographical information: Chambers’s Journal ledger (NLS Dep 341/371); Canada’s Historic Places https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=14468 (14 October 2019); Eric Duncan Fonds, University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives. (AC)