Record ID:
35455202 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50050405
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Sir
Birth:
  • 1860-01-10
  • Douglas (N.B.)
  • 1897 -
  • 1907 -
  • 1910 -
  • 1912 - 1925
Death:
  • 1943-11-26
  • Toronto (Ont.)
  • 1897 -
  • 1907 -
  • 1910 -
  • 1912 - 1925
Associated with:
  • Canada Chatham (N.B.) Fredericton (N.B.) Windsor (N.S.)
  • 1897 -
  • 1907 -
  • 1910 -
  • 1912 - 1925
Lived/located in:
  • Westcock (N.B.)
  • New York (N.Y.) 1897 -
  • Paris (France) 1907 -
  • Munich (Germany) 1910 -
  • London (England) 1912 - 1925
Fields of activity:
  • College teaching Poetry--Authorship Prose literature--Authorship Editing
Occupations:
  • College teachers Poets Authors Editors
Used for:
  • Roberts, Charles George Douglas,, Sir, 1860-1943
  • Roberts, Charles G. D., 1860-1943
  • Roberts, Charles D., 1860-1943
  • Father of Canadian poetry, 1860-1943
Notes:
  • 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)
Local system number:
  • 000000457767
  • abv00387935
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC OCoLC DLC PSt IEN CaOONL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • nlc