William Henry Drummond
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William Henry Drummond was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved
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Defenders take refuge in the church of Saint-Eustache (F.S. Coburn illustration from The Habitant and Other Poems)
William Henry Drummond plaque, Cobalt, Ontario. Photo by Alan L. Brown, July 2006. Photo used with permission from the website.
Louis-Honoré Fréchette
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Louis-Honoré Fréchette was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, and t
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…with a New York City publisher, illustrations by Canadian landscape artist F.S. Coburn, and an enthusiastic introduction (in French) by prominent poet Louis Fréchette. Fréchette "passed on a compliment that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had paid to Drummond, calling him 'The pathfinder of a new land of song.'" With…
Fréchette in 1900