| LC control no. | n 50050405 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9199.3.R5269 PS8485.O24 CaOONL |
| Personal name heading | Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943 |
| Variant(s) | Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943 Roberts, Charles G. D., 1860-1943 Roberts, Charles D., 1860-1943 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943 Father of Canadian poetry, 1860-1943 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Associated place | Chatham (N.B.) Fredericton (N.B.) Windsor (N.S.) |
| Located | Westcock (N.B.) New York (N.Y.) Paris (France) Munich (Germany) London (England) |
| Birth date | 1860-01-10 |
| Death date | 1943-11-26 |
| Place of birth | Douglas (N.B.) |
| Place of death | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Field of activity | College teaching Poetry--Authorship Prose literature--Authorship Editing |
| Affiliation | University of New Brunswick University of King's College (Windsor, N.S.) Royal Society of Canada National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Poets Authors Editors |
| Found in | His The lure of the wild, 1980: t.p. (Sir Charles G. D. Roberts) The heart of the ancient wood, 1900: t.p. (Charles G. D. Roberts, author of By the marshes of Minas, The forge in the forest, A sister to Evangeline, New York nocturnes, etc.) Wikipedia, September 2, 2013 (heading: Charles G. D. Roberts; Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, KCMG FRSC (January 10, 1860 - November 26, 1943); Canadian poet and prose writer who is known as the Father of Canadian Poetry; born Douglas, New Brunswick; died Toronto, Ontario; raised in the parish of Westcock, New Brunswick; attended Fredericton Collegiate School from 1874 to 1876, and then the University of New Brunswick (UNB), earning his B.A. in 1879 and M.A. in 1881; principal of Chatham High School in Chatham, New Brunswick, from 1879 to 1881, and of York Street School in Fredericton from 1881 to 1883; in 1885 Roberts became a professor at the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia; resigned from King's College in 1895; left Canada for New York City in 1897; during 1897 and 1898 he worked for The Illustrated American as an associate editor; in 1907 moved to Europe first living in Paris; moved to Munich in 1910, and in 1912 to London, where he lived until 1925; returned to Canada in 1925; member of the Halifax literary and social set, The Song Fishermen; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1893; elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1898; awarded the Royal Society of Canada's first Lorne Pierce Medal in 1926; on June 3, 1935, Roberts was one of three Canadians on King George V's honour list to receive a knighthood (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George)) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._D._Roberts> LAC internal file, May 1, 2019 (heading: Roberts, Charles G. D., 1860-1943; variants: Roberts, Charles D., 1860-1943; Roberts, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943; Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943; Father of Canadian poetry, 1860-1943; Canadian) |
| National bib agency no. | 0100H3766E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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