CANADIAN POET DEAD
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United. Service) NEW YORK, Saturday. Mr. Blisa Carman, Canadian poet, dropped dead at New Canaan, Connecticut, today while on a visit to a friend. He was born In New Brunswick in 1861, and was educated at the New Brunswick 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 Vagabondia,” a Coronation Ode, 1902, “April Airs.” His work was recognised last year by the Canadian 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,” was 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 686, 11 June 1929, Page 11
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