CANADIAN POET DEAD
f.-lustra/iaib and N.Z. Press Association) ( United Service) NEW YORK, Saturday.
Mr. Bliss Carman, Canadian poet, chopped dead at New Canaan, Connecticut, today while on a visit to a friend. He was born in New Brunswick in IS6I and was educated at the New Brur.swick University, and Edinburgh and Harvard. He became a journalist in New York, and published many volumes of poems, including ‘‘Ballads of Lost Havens,” “A Winter Holiday,” Songs from V«gabondia,” a Coronation Ode. 1902, “April Airs.” His work "as recognised last year by the Canaoian Royal Society, which awarded him the Lome Pierce gold medal. At the celebration of the jubilee of the confederation of Canada at Ottawa in 1927 his poem. “Dominion Day, 1927,” "as read by Miss Margaret Anglin, the famous Canadian actress, whose father had been Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 9
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