“RALPH CONNOR”

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 297, 12 September 1934, Page 11

“RALPH CONNOR”

Coming to New Zealand During the course of his address before the Wellington Rotary Club yesterday, the Rev. W. Gilmour, of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, said that in ‘all probability "Ralph Connor," the Canadian author, would arrive in New Zealand in March next. “Ralph Connor” is the Rev. Charles W. Gordon, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S., minister of St. Stephen’s, Winnipeg, since * 189-1. He was born in Glengarry, Ontario, on September 13, 1860. Educated at the High School of St. Mary’s, Ontario, at the Toronto University, and Knox College, Toronto, he became a missionary to the miners and lumbermen in the Rocky Mountains, where he gained a knowledge of outdoor life, which formed the basis of many of his breezy stories. The Rev. Dr. Gordon was chaplain to the Canadian Forces at the front in 1915. He served on a special commission set up by the Imperial Government and the Canadian Government in the United States in 1917, and was a member of a special commission to Great Britain In 1918. His publications include “Beyond the Marshes," “Black Rock,” "The Sky Idiot,” “Auld Michael,” "The Man from Glengarry,” "Glengarry Schooldays,” "Breaking the Record,” “The Pilot of Swan Creek," "The Doctor of Crow’s Nest,” "The Foreigner,”' "The Angel and the Star," and "The Recall of Love.”