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Abbott, Charles D.
Director of Libraries, University of Buffalo

Abbott, Teresa [Theresa (sic), Tressa (sic)]
The wife of Charles D. Abbott

Adams, J. Donald
A journalist with The New York Times, and in 1945 editor of its book review and literary section. Adams's "warm reference" to the American edition of Pratt's Collected Poems (New York: Knopf 1945) appeared in the N.Y. Times Book Review, 22 July 1945, 2.

Adeney, Marcus
Born (1900) in England, for many years a cellist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Adeney was a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. He published verse, reviews, and articles on music and literature, and one book, Tomorrow’s Cellist: Exploring the Basis of Artistry (1973; Oakville, ON: Harris Music Co. 1984).

Alexander, Jane (Peck)
A friend of Claire Pratt in Boston

Alexander, William John
(1855–1944) Born in Hamilton, graduate of the University of London and Johns Hopkins, Alexander was Professor of English and Head of Department at University College from 1889 to 1926. The Alexander Lecture Series was begun in his honour in 1929–30.

Allen, Ethel
A college friend of Claire. She and other friends helped the Pratts move from Cortleigh Blvd. to the apartment at 5 Elm Avenue in April 1960. Claire Pratt notes 'one of her jobs was transporting my father to the Clarkes for the day where he was given a duck dinner. He was not strong enough to help with the moving. But he did undertake the task of writing them all to thank them' [letter to David G. Pitt, 19 February 1988].

Alty, Thomas
The student minister who succeeded Pratt at Bell Island when he left to attend Victoria College in Toronto in 1907.

Anderson, Patrick
(b.1915) Author of several small books of verse, Anderson is best known for his association with the Montreal-based avant-grade poetry magazine Preview (1942–6). The Preview group of poets included Anderson, F.R. Scott, P.K. Page, Bruce Ruddick, and Neufville Shaw. As editor of the Canadian Poetry Magazine, Pratt bitterly resented this group's attitude to CPM and the poets associated with it.

Andrew, Allen

Angell, J.R.

Angus, William
Director of Queen's University Drama Guild.

Appleton, Frank A Canadian publisher, whose company, Appleton-Century, represented Penguin Books in Canada. In 1943, Penguin Books published the Anthology of Canadian Poetry (English) , edited by Ralph Gustafson.

Archibald, Rosamond
(1882–1953), graduate of Acadia University and Smith College (Massachusetts), Archibald was Head of English at Acadia Seminary (1914–26) and Horton Academy (1926–47). She published several English language texts.

Arthur, Eric
(1898–1982) Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Arthur was Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and a member of the firm of architects, Fleury, Arthur, and Calvert.

Arthur, Paul
Son of Eric Arthur, and a member of the editorial board of the samll magazine Here and Now (December 1947–June 1949)

Auden, W.H.
(1907–1973) British poet but an American citizen and living in the United States.

Auger, Charles
(1880–1935) A graduate of Victoria College and the University of Chicago; an associate professor of English at Victoria College.

Austin, Dr. L.J.
Professor of Surgery at Queen’s University for many years. He was a neighbour of the Cartwrights (152 University Avenue) with whom Pratt lodged when teaching Summer School.

Avison, Margaret
(b.l918) Avison attended Victoria College between 1936 and 1940, returning for graduate study in 1963. Her first book of poems, Winter Sun (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960) won the Governor General's Award. She has since published several more volumes, The Dumbfounding (New York: Norton 1966), The Cosmic Chef (Ottawa: Oberon Press 1970), Sunblue (1978), No Time (1989), A Kind of Perseverance (1994) and Not yet but still (1997) all published by Lancelot Press (Hantsport, NS). She won a second Governor-General's award for poetry for No Time.

Ayre, Robert

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Baillie, John
(1881–1963) A Scots theologian who taught at Victoria College in the 1920s, author of several major works on theology

Ball, Ida [nιe Oldman]
A classmate of Viola Pratt, married to Stanley Ball

Bannerman, Glen
A former student of Pratt; in advertising in Toronto in 1945?? and later in the employ of the Federal Government.

Barker, George

Barkway, Michael
(b.1911) Editor of the BBC Overseas News 1938–42. After service in the United States, he was appointed BBC representative in Canada. He was later editor of The Financial Times.

Barnard, Leslie Gordon
(1890–1961) A Montreal writer mostly of fiction: short stories in One Generation Away (New York: Holborn House 1931) and So Near is Grandeur (Toronto: Macmillan 1945), and novels Jancis (Toronto: Macmillan 1935) and Winter Road (?? 1939). A long-time member of the CAA, he was National President in 1937–39.

Barr, Alan
Born (1890) in England, Barr was a Toronto artist, best known for his portraits and etchings. Pelham Edgar was one of his subjects.

Barry, Lily
Lily Barry, Christine Henderson, and Dorothy Sproule were verse-writing members of the Montreal Branch of the CAA, active in its Poetry Group.

Bates, Ralph

Beach, Mrs. Adam

Beaverbrook, Lord [William Maxwell (Max) Aitken]
(1879–1964) New Brunswick politician and newspaper magnate, raised to the peerage in 1917

Beers, Clifford

Belamy, Edward

Benιt, Marjorie
W.R. Benιt's wife

Benιt, Stephen Vincent
(1898–1943) W.R. Benιt's younger brother was a poet, novelist, and short story writer, best known for his long, narrative poems, John Brown's Body (1928) and Western Star (1943).

Benιt, William Rose [Bill)
(1886–1950). Pratt's "most loved American friend" (letter dated 8 June 1945). American poet, novelist, essayist, and editor, best known for his columns and reviews in the Saturday Review of Literature. In 1941 his The Dust Which Is God, won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His novels include The First Person Singular (1922) and The Flying King of Kurio (1926).

Bennet, Charles L.
(1895–1971) A New Zealander, graduate of Cambridge and Harvard Universities, Bennet was Professor of English at Dalhousie, Head of Department, and long-time editor of the Dalhousie Review.

Bennett, Harold [Hal]
Born (1890) in England, Professor of Latin at Victoria College since 1932, Bennett held several administrative posts there (Registrar, Dean, Acting President) before being appointed Principal in 1951.

Benson, Emma
Wife of Nathaniel Benson, herself an active member of the CAA

Benson, Nathaniel A.
(1903–1967) Born and educated in Toronto, he was at various times a journalist, teacher, and advertising executive. He wrote and published verse for many years, including several small books. He also edited Modern Canadian Poetry (1930).

Berlin, Boris

Bicknell, Anna
Graduate student at Victoria College in 1930

Binyon, Laurence
(1869–1943) British poet and Orientalist, Keeper of Oriental Prints and Drawings at the British Museum (1913–33). He published several books of poetry and books on art, but is best remembered for his war elegy, "For the Fallen." The Pratts entertained him in November 1926, when he lectured in Toronto on "T'ang Art." Pratt described him as "one of the most solemn men of my acquaintance."

Birney, Earle [Birnie (sic)]
(1904–95) Born in Calgary, educated at the Universities of British Columbia, Toronto, California, and London, Birney taught English at the universities of Toronto (1936–41) and British Columbia (1946–63). In the 1930s he was strongly attracted to Marxism, but gradually abandoned his attachment. He published his first book of poems, David and Other Poems, in 1942, winning the Governor General's award for poetry in 1943. He won a second Governor-General’s award in 1946 for Now Is Time, and many other books of poetry followed. He also published two novels, and many articles and reviews. In the summer of 1946, he took over from Pratt as editor of the CPM, but had a stormy relationship with the editorial board, and resigned after only one year.
Earle Birney, 1933

Birney, Esther [nιe Bull]
Wife of Earle Birney

Birney, William Laurenson [Bill]
(b.1941) Earle Birney's son

Bissell, Christine
Wife of Claude Bissell

Bissell, Claude
(l916–2000) With degrees from Toronto and Cornell, Bissell was in 1942 a lecturer in English at University College, Toronto. Later he was Professor of English and Dean of Residence there, and President of the University of Toronto (1958–71). He is the author of many scholarly publications, most notably a two-volume biography of Vincent Massey (1983, 1986).

Blackburn, Grace [Fanfan]
Literary and dramatic critic in the 1920s and ?? of the London Free Press, of which her father, Josiah Blackburn, was proprietor and editor for nearly forty years. She wrote in the Free Press under the nom de plume "Fanfan."

Blackshaw
A client of John Hagedorn

Blake, William Hume
(1861–1924) Lawyer and fishing enthusiast. Brown Waters (1916) was one of his three books of essays in the tradition of Isaac Walton. His translation of Louis Hemon’s Maria Chapdelaine was published by Macmillan in 1947.

Bland
Unidentifed faculty member at University of Toronto (1922)

Blewett, George
(1873–1912) Professor Ethics and Apologetics at Victoria College (1909–12), a teacher and friend of Pratt. He drowned in Lake Huron.
George Blewett

Bothwell, Austin
(1885–1928) Born in Perth, Ontario, Bothwell was a graduate of Oxford University (as Rhodes Scholar), and taught at Wesley College, Winnipeg, and Central Collegiate Institute, Regina. He was editor of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Alliance and the author of several books and many articles and reviews.

Bourinot, Arthur Stanley
(1893–1996) Born in Ottawa and educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, Bourinot was a lawyer who published numerous books of poetry. His Under the Sun and Other Poems won him the Governor-General's medal in 1939. Bourinot edited the Canadian Poetry Magazine (1948–54 and 1966–8) and Canadian Author and Bookman (1953–4; associate editor 1957–60), and compiled several collections of letters of Duncan Campbell Scott and Archibald Lampman.

Bowles, Reverend Richard Pinch Bowles
(1864–1960) Born in Ontario, and a graduate of Victoria College, Bowles was its President and Chancellor from 1913 to 1930.

Bowman, Louise Morey
(1882–1944) Born in Quebec, Bowman spent most of her life in Montreal. She published three books of verse, including Dream Tapestries (1924), which won the Quebec Government's David Prize, and Characters in Cadence (1938), notable for its imagistic qualities.

Boyle, Robert William [Billy]
(1883–1955) Born in Newfoundland, educated at Methodist College in St. John (he and Pratt were classmates), McGill and Manchester Universities, Boyle taught physics at the University of Alberta, did anti-submarine research for the British Admiralty during World War I. A director at the National Research Laboratories in Ottawa (1929–49), he is best known for his work on the submarine detection device, sonar (originally called asdic).

Brant, Joseph
(1742–1807) Mohawk Indian chief, missionary, and head of the Six Nations Indians

Brebner, John Bartlet [Bart]
(1895–1957) Born in Toronto, educated at Toronto, Oxford, and Columbia Universities, Brebner taught briefly at the University of Toronto, moving in 1925 to Columbia University in New York where he taught history for the rest of his life. He published a number of scholarly, historical works.

Brett, Barbara
(1890–1983) A student of Pratt during the years he taught at Moreton's Harbour (1902–4). Awarded a B.A. by Mount Allison University, she taught for forty years in Newfoundland schools, including Grand Falls Academy.

Brett, Flossie
A cousin of Barbara Brett, she died in the winter of 1904

Brett, George
President of the Macmillan Company in New York

Brett, George S.
(1879–1944) Head of the Philsophy Department at Victoria College in the early 1940s [dates??]

Bridle, Augustus

Brietzche, E. Helen Shackleton
Montreal-based sister of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, she published sundry poems, and several children’s books under the name Helen Shackleton.

Briggs, Reverend William

Book Steward of the Methodist Church of Canada (1879–1918), Briggs was responsible for the Methodist Book Room press, and had published under the imprint of his own name. Reverend Samuel Fallis (or Follis), who succeeded him as Book Steward, changed the name in 1919 to Ryerson Press, to commemorate Egerton Ryerson, founder in 1830 of the original Methodist Press in Canada.

Brighouse, Harold
(1882–1958) Playwright. Born and educated in Manchester, England, he wrote some seventy plays between 1909 and 1952, including Hobson's Choice (1915) and Zack (1916).

Broadus, Edmund Kemper
(1876–1936) Known principally as a compiler (with his wife Eleanor Hammond Broadus) of anthologies used pervasively in Canadian universities, including his English Prose from Bacon to Hardy (1918) and A Book of Canadian Prose and Verse (1923), both published by Macmillian Press. Pratt was enlisted to advise on the preparation of the "new and completely revised" version of the Canadian anthology in 1934.

Brockington, Leonard W.
(1888–1966) Born in Wales, Brockington emigrated to Canada in 1912, becoming editor of a small newspaper in Edmonton. He was called to the Bar of Alberta in 1919, joining James Lougheed and R.B. Bennett's law firm in Calgary. A gifted public speaker, he won a coveted reputation as orator and broadcaster. Brockington served as the first chairman of the CBC (1936–9) and special assistant to Prime Minister King (1939–42). In 1942, he returned to England, serving Churchill's war-time government and broadcasting news of the war to Canadians. He was later president of Odeon Theatres (Canada) and rector of Queen's University (1947–66).

Brooker, Bertram
(1888–1955) Illustrator, abstract painter, and advertising executive. A fellow member of the Toronto Writers' Club, and, like many of the club's members, a contributor ('Nudes and Prudes') to W.A. Deacon and Wilfred Reeve's Open House (Ottawa: Graphic Press, 1931). In 1937, he won the first Governor-General's award for fiction for his novel, Think of the Earth (Toronto: Nelson & Sons, 1936).

Brown, Audrey Alexandra
(1904–98) Born in Nanaimo, B.C., Audrey Brown had only four years of formal schooling and was largely self-educated. She began publishing poems at 16, finding a mentor in Pelham Edgar. Brown published some half-dozen volumes of verse, her best known and probably her best being her first, A Dryad in Nanaimo (1931). She was the first woman writer to receive the Lorne Pierce medal for 'achievement in imaginative and critical literature.

Brown, David Deaver [Deaver]
E.K. Brown's elder son, born 30 December 1943

Brown, Edward Killoran [E.K., Eddie, Ed]
(1905–51) Educated at the University of Toronto and at the Sorbonne in Paris, Brown taught English at University College, Toronto (1929–35; 1937–41), the University of Manitoba (1935–37), Cornell University (1941–44), and the University of Chicago (1944–51). Author of scholarly works on a range of subjects from Matthew Arnold to Edith Wharton, Brown was also one of the first critics to write seriously about Canadian literature, winning the Governor-General's award for 1943 for his On Canadian Poetry. He was an editor of The University of Toronto Quarterly (1932–41), for which he wrote the annual survey of Canadian literature, and in 1941 was guest editor of a special 'Canadian' issue of Poetry (Chicago). He and Pratt were close friends for more than twenty years.
Edward and Peggy Brown with their son, Deaver

Brown, J.G.
Principal of the Union College of British Columbia (formed by the amalgamation of Ryerson Theological Collegeand Westminster Hall), affiliated with the University of British Columbia from 1927 to 1948.

Brown, Margaret [Peggy; nιe Deaver]
The wife of E.K. Brown

Brown, Phyllis E.M.
Librarian in St. John, New Brunswick

Brown, Walter T.
(1883–1954) A graduate of Victoria College, Brown taught philosophy there (1912–28) and at Yale (1928–32). He returned as Principal in 1932, becoming President and Chancellor in 1941.

Bruce, Charles
(b.1906) Bruce served for many years with the Canadian Press in Canada and the United States. He published several books of poems, his The Mulgrave Road winning the Governor-General's award for 1951. He is probably best known for his novel, The Channel Shore (1954).

Bruce, Herbert

Buckley, Elery
In 1953, Claire was living (temporarily) with Elery and Ruth Buckley [Nιe Stauffer] in Concord, Massachusetts.

Bullen, Frank

Burchell, C.J.

Burden, Mac
Newfoundland-born, Burden was Pratt's lawyer for many years.

Burnette
Unidentified

Burns, Robert [Robbie]
(1759–96) Scottish poet and songwriter who composed in the Scots dialect such lyrics as "Auld Lang Syne" and "My Love is like a Red Red Rose." He is generally regarded as the Scottish nationalist poet, and annual celebrations of his birth are held on January 25.
Program — The Robbie Burns dinner addressed by Pratt in St. John's, 25 January 1949:
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Burns, William [Wm]
Robert Burns' father

Burpee, Lawrence J.
(1873–1946) Civil servant by occupation, Burpee was also a director of the short-lived Graphic Press. A man of many literary interests, he is best-known for The Search for the Western Sea: The Story of the Exploration of North-western America (1908). He was National President of the CAA in 1924–5.

Burt, A.L.
A graduate of Victoria College, Burt had been awarded the Royal Society's Tyrell Medal for History in 1940; in the same year, Pratt received the Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature from the Society.

Burt, Hettie

Burwash, Nathanael
Reverend Nathanael Burwash (1839–1918) was President and Chancellor of Victoria University (1887–1913). He published several theological works.

Bush, Douglas [Doug]
(1896–1983) A graduate of the University of Toronto and of Harvard, Bush spent most of his careeras a professor of English at Harvard. As a teaching-fellow at Victoria College in 1920-1, he and Pratt were office-mates. Bush wenr on to publish numerous scholarly books and articles, primarily on Renaissance literature.

Bushnell, Ernest L.
(1900–1987) ??? later Vice-president of the CBC, then a member of its programming division.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord
(1788–1824) English Romantic poet, author of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Manfred, and Don Juan

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Call, Frank Oliver
(1878–1956) A Quebec teacher whose books of verse include Acanthus and Wild Grape (1920), Blue Homespun (1924), and Sonnets for Youth (1944).

Callaghan, Morley
(1903–90) Born in Toronto, Callaghan was author of a dozen or more novels and many short stories. His The Loved and the Lost, often said to be his best, won the Governor-General's medal for fiction in 1951. In 1960 he received the Lorne Pierce Medal and in 1982 was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Campbell, Austin
(b.1884) A businessman for whom writing was a hobby, Campbell wrote fugitive pieces for various journals, and a novel, The Rock of Babylon, published in 1931.

Campbell, Roy

Campbell, Wilfred
(1858–1918) An Anglican priest educated at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Campbell left the clergy to become a civil servant. He published numerous historical novels and books of poetry, as well as editing The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1913). However, he is best known as part of the group of Canadian poets based in Ottawa, including Duncan Campbell Scott and Archibald Lampman, who collaborated on the literary column entitled 'At the Mermaid Inn' for the Toronto Globe (Feb. 1892–July 1893).

Carman, Bliss
(1861–1929) Born in Fredericton, Carman was first cousin of Charles G.D. Roberts and distantly related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like the other 'Confederation poets,' Roberts, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, Carman responded in his verse to the Canadian landscape, but in terms borrowed from the English Romantics and American Transcendentalists. Although he produced fifty volumes of poetry, he is best known for his early work, most notably Low Tide at Grand Prι (New York, 1893), and his collaborations with American poet Richard Hovey on Songs from Vagabondia (Boston, 1895) and its sequels.

Carrier, Louis
(1898–1961), a Montreal journalist, who in 1928 had begun publishing under the imprint of Louis Carrier and Company with offices in New York and Montreal. The firm had gone bankrupt in 1929.

Cartheuser, William

Cartwright, Mrs
From 1939 on, when teaching summer school at Queen's University, Pratt rented a bed-sitting room in a house owned by a retired doctor, Richard Cartwright, and his wife. The house was conveniently near the campus (152 University Avenue). See the letter to George Herbert Clarke (28 January 1938).

Cassidy, Carol
Born Carol Coates in 1909 and raised in Japan. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, she engaged in educational work for several years in Canada and abroad. She published several poetry in Fancy Free (1939), Poems (1942), and Invitation to Mood (1949). A close friend of the Pratt family, especially of Claire. Claire occasionally stayed at the Cassidy home when visiting New York.

Chant, Clarence

Charlesworth, Hector W.
(1872–1945) Critic, journalist, associate editor of Saturday Night (1910–26), and editor (1926–32). He is probably best remembered in Canadian cultural history for his severe criticism in the 1920s of the Group of Seven painters.

Charlesworth, John L.
(b.1896) After working on the Guelph Daily Herald, Charlesworth became editor of Industrial Canada in 1920. In 1931 he joined the public relations firm of Johnston, Everson and Charlesworth.

Chisholm, Sir Joseph
The (1863–1950) The Honourable Sir Joseph Chisholm, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia

Church, Frederic E.

Clarke, C.K.

Clarke, Frederick
A Professor of Classics at the University of Manitoba

Clarke, George Herbert [George, Herbert]
(1873–1953) Born in Britain and raised in Ontario, Clarke was appointed Head of the Department of English at Queen's University in 1925 after teaching for 25 years in various American universities. He and Pratt were inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 1930, and became good friends.
George Herbert Clarke, painted by Elizabeth Harrison, 1937

Clarke, Irene
Wife of W.H. Clarke

Clarke, William Henry [Bill]
* Born (1902) in Lindsay, Ontario, Clarke was the manager of the Canadian Oxford University Press (1936–49), as well as the president of Clarke, Irwin & Co.

Claxton, Brooke

Clay, Charles
(b. l906) Author of novels for adolescents and collector of Indian folk tales, Clay was Literary Editor of The Winnipeg Free Press (1931–41), and National Secretary of the CAA (1942–46).

Coates, Calvert
John Pratt's friend and namesake of Calvert Coates Pratt

Coates, Carol
(b.1909) A sister of Calvert Coates, John Pratt's friend and namesake of Calvert Pratt. Raised in Japan, a graduate of the University of British Columbia, she engaged in educational work for several years in Canada and abroad. She published several volumes?? of poetry, Fancy Free (1939), Poems (1942), and Invitation to Mood (1949).

Cobb, John
Claire Pratt's surgeon in New York at the Hospital for Special Surgery, 1954–55

Coburn, Kathleen [Kay]

Cochrane, Nora
An artist, and a friend of Claire Pratt. Claire writes, 'she was full of beans, had an original turn of mind and was a Christian Scientist. My father got a kick out of her' [letter to David G. Pitt, 3 August 1987].

Cody, Canon Henry John
(1868–1951) A clergyman of the Church of England long involved in university administration, Cody was President of the University of Toronto (1932–44) and Chancellor (1944–7).

Coleman, Arthur P.
(1865–1939) A graduate of Victoria College, and for many years Professor of Natural History and Geology there. He was a brother of Helena Coleman

Coleman, Helena
(1860–1953) Crippled by polio, she was confined to a wheelchair. She and her brother acted in loco parentis for poet Marjorie Pickthall. Helena Coleman herself published several volumes of verse between 1906 and 1937.

Collin, William Edwin [W.E.]
(1893–1984) Born in England, educated at the Universities of Toulouse and Western Ontario, Collin was Professor of Romance Languages at Western (1923–60). He published Monserrat and Other Poems (Toronto: Ryerson 1930), but his chief work was The White Savannahs (Toronto: Macmillan 1936), a pioneering study of major Canadian poets, including Pratt.

Collip, James Bertram
Professor of Biochemistry at McGill University, and later Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, Collip was President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1942–3.

Colman, Mary E.
(b.l895) A librarian in Vancouver who wrote verse and prose for magazines and published several small books of poems.

Colquhoun, Kate G.
Her The Battle of St. Julien and Other Poems had been published as a Ryerson chapbook in 1928.

Comfort, Charles

Conover, J.D.

Conrad, Joseph
(1857–1924) Born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Podolia (now Ukraine), Conrad embarked on a career as a seaman, before settling in England in 1895. His many novels, including Almayer's Folly (1895), The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1903), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911) — all in English — established him as a major modernist writer.

Cooke, Jack Kent

Corbett, Edward A. [Ed]
Born (1887) in Nova Scotia and educated at McGill University, Corbett was Director of the Canadian Association for Adult Education. He was a founder of the Banff School of Fine Arts (1933), and the initiator of several educational radio series, including 'Farm Radio Forum' and 'Citizens Forum.'

Cornell, Beaumont S.
(b. 1892) His novel, Lantern Marsh, was published by Ryerson Press in 1923.

Costain, Thomas B. [Tom]
Born (1885) in Ontario, Costain was editor of Maclean's 1914–20, when he moved to New York to edit Saturday Evening Post (1920–34). After a stint in Hollywood, he became an editor at Doubleday. His career as novelist began when he published the For My Great Folly (1942).

Cox, Leonard [Leo]
Born (1898) in England, manager of an advertising firm in Montreal, he was author of several books of verse. In 1944 he won the Quebec literary award, the David Prize ($800.00), for his North Star (1941). On the CPM editorial board for several years, he was editor in 1955–7.

Crawford, Isabella Valancy
(1850–87) Born in Ireland, Crawford came to Ontario at an early age. She wrote numerous serialized novels, short stories, and poems for several Canadian and American publications, but published only one book of verse in her lifetime, Old Spookes’ Pass, Malcolm’s Katie and Other Poems (1884).

Crawley, Alan
Founder in 1941 of the small magazine Contemporary Verse with the assistance of several Vancouver poets including Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriot, Doris Ferne, and Floris Clarke McLaren — Crawley was blind. Publishing a generally high quality of verse, CV continued to flourish until 1952.

Creighton, John H. [Jack]
In 1927 a free-lance writer and reviewer, he later taught English at several universities, before becoming Educational Manager at Oxford University Press.

Creighton, Sally
Wife of Jack Creighton

Creighton, W.A.
In 1923 editor of the Christian Guardian, the weekly newspaper of the Methodist Church of Canada, published by Ryerson Press (previously the Methodist Book Room)

Currelly, Charles T.
(1876–1957) Archeologist and Egyptologist, Currelley was appointed first Director of the Royal Ontario Museum in 1907, a post he held until 1946. He was also Professor of Archeology at the University of Toronto.

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Dale, Ernest Abel

Dalley, Mary
A member of Simpson’s staff, responsible for the book department

Dalton, Annie Charlotte
(1865–1938) Born in England, lived most of her life in Vancouver. She published nine slim books of verse, including The Marriage of Music (Vancouver: Evans and Hastings 1910), Flame and Adventure (Toronto: Macmillan 1924), and Lilies and Leopards (Toronto: Ryerson 1935).

Dalton, William [Willie]
Husband of Annie Dalton

Daly, Richard Arthur
(b. 1886) A Toronto broker and director of numerous commercial firms, active in community philanthropic and cultural enterprises; brother of Roland O. Daly

Daly, Roland O.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, Daly was a Toronto lawyer. He and Pratt were fellow members of the York Downs Golf Club and had been friends since their undergraduate days.

Daniells, Roy
(1902–1979) Born in England, graduate of the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto, Daniells taught English at Victoria College in the 1930s, and subsequently at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia. His poetry was published mainly in two books, Deeper into the Forest (1948) and The Chequered Shade (1963).

Davies, Emlyn
(b. 1897) A former British civil servant seconded to the Canadian Department of Defence (1941–7), Davies was attached to the Defence Research Department in Ottawa

Davis, Herbert J. [H.S. (sic)]
(1893–1976) British-born member of the Department of English, University College (Toronto), and a distinguished scholar of eighteenth century literature. In 1924–25, he was a guest professor at the University of Cologne. He moved to the University of Chicago in 1937, then to Cornell University as Head of the Department of English (1938–40), and Smith College in Massachusetts where he was President (1940–51).

Davies, Dr. Trevor
Born (1871) in Wales, Davies was superintendent minister of Timothy Eaton Memorial Methodist (later United) Church, Toronto.

Davies, Robertson
(1913–95) Educated at Queen's and Oxford Universities, Davies was Literary Editor of Saturday Night (1940–1942), when he became editor of the Peterborough Examiner, in 1945 its publisher. From 1960 to 1981 he taught English Literature at the University of Toronto and was the first Master of Massey College. He published more than a dozen books, including such novels as Leaven of Malice (1954], Mixture of Frailties (1958), Fifth Business (1970), and The World of Wonders (1975). He also published plays and several books of essays.

Davies, William Rupert
Appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1942, Davies was the proprietor and editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard. The novelist Robertson Davies was his third son.

Davis, John Herbert
(1893–1967) British born academic who held a temporary appointment in the Department of English at University College (Toronto) in 1922 and rejoined the faculty in 1935–37. Davis moved first to Cornell University as Head of the Department of English (1938–43), and then to Smith College in Massachusetts where he served as President.

Day, Frank Parker
(1881–1950) Author of seceral regional novels. Rockbound (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran 1928) told the story of some Nova Scotia fishermen and the hard lives they endured.

Daykin, Kathleen
She and her husband, Hume, were friends of the family

Deacon, Sarah Townsend Syme [Sally, Sal]
Wife of W.A. Deacon

Deacon, William Jr. [young Bill]
son of W.A. Deacon

Deacon, William Arthur [Billy, Bill]
(1890–1977) A classmate of Pratt and Phelps at Victoria College, and a graduate in Law of the University of Manitoba, Deacon was literary editor of Saturday Night (1922–8), the Toronto Mail and Empire (1928–36), and The Globe and Mail (1936–60). A prolific free-lance reviewer, critical essayist, and letter-writer, he also published several books of varying literary interest and significance. He was a long-time friend , though their friendship, mainly because of Deacon's temperament, vacillated from time to time. He became National President of CAA in 1946.
William Arthur Deacon, c1922

de Banke, Cιcile
British-born actress, elocutionist, and world traveller, Miss de Banke was an instructor at Wellesley College, a woman's college in Massachusetts. Like Pratt, she regularly taught summer school at Queen's University in the 1940s. The two met in 1941 when she performed Dunkirk in a recital (24 November) sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Speech, of which Pratt was a patron. (See D.G. Pitt, The Master Years, pp. 283–4.)

de Beaumont, Victor
Born (1884) in the United States and a graduate of Columbia University, De Beaumont was Head of Victoria College’s French Department in 1934.

de la Roche, Mazo
(1879–1961) Born in Ontario, author of many novels, best-known for the "Jalna" or "Whiteoak" series, chronicling several generations of a fictional Ontario family. The first, Jalna (1927), won the Atlantic Monthly $10,000 prize for fiction.

Denison, Merrill
(1893–1975) American born, Dennison was the first playwright of significance in English Canada. His satiric Brothers in Arms (1921) enjoyed great popularity for many years. Other works include The Unheroic North (1923), Henry Hudson and Other Plays (1931), and Klondike Mike (1943). He and Pratt became good friends.

Denison, Muriel
Wife of Merrill Denison

Dent, Walter Redvers
(b.l900) A free-lance journalist in Vancouver, Dent had written a novel, Show Me Death! (Toronto: Macmillan 1930), about Canadians in World War I.

Deutsch, Babette New York poet and critic (1895–1982), Deutsche had published many volumes of verse, a biography of Whitman (1941), and several books of "modern" criticism.

DeWitt, Norman Wentworth
(1876–1958) Graduate of the Victoria College class of 1899, he was Professor of Latin 1908–45, and Dean of Arts and Principal of Victoria College 1924–8.

Captain Harry George de Wolfe
(b.1903) De Wolfe joined the Navy at age fifteen. Given command of a destroyer in 1939, he saw naval service at sea until 1942, when he was posted to Naval Headquarters in Ottawa. He was Chief of Naval Staff 1956–60. (Pratt errs in describing him as Chief of Naval Staff in 1945).

Dickinson, Emily
(1830–86) American poet

Dickson, Lovat

Dickson, Muriel [nιe Knight]
A cousin of Pratt, daughter of his mother's brother and sister of Dorothy Knight. Her husband 'Joe' (Joseph) had been gassed during the first World War.

Dillon, George American poet (b.1907) who assumed the editorship of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse upon the death of Harriet Monroe in 1936.

Dilworth, Ira
Professor of English at the University of British Columbia until 1938, when he became manager of a radio station in Vancouver and regional representative of the CBC. In 1947, he became supervisor of the CBC International Service in Montreal, and in 1950 became National Director of Programming, based in Toronto. His anthology Twentieth Century Verse (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin 1945) 'broke new ground ... by placing Canadian poets without much fanfare in the company of contemporary British and American poets ...' [Robert L. McDougall, The Poet and the Critic, p. 218]

Doppler, Christian Johann
(1803–53), Austrian physicist, originator of the "Doppler effect": the apparent change in frequency of sound waves and light waves in accordance with the relative velocity of the source and the observer.

Dorey, Alice Ann
Wife of Reverend George Dorey, a United Church overseas missionary who was Moderator of the Church in 1954–6.

Douglas, Alice V.

Doyle, Dorothy M.

Drainie, John
Born (1918) in Vancouver, after several years as a radio announcer and actor, and a short stint in Hollywood, joined the staff of the CBC in 1941. He later became a free-lance announcer and actor, performing in many radio and television productions.

Drew, George
(1894–1973) was Premier of Ontario and Minister of Education from 1943 to 1948, when he became leader of the Federal Conservative Party. He resigned in 1956 after losing two elections.

Dryden, John

Dudek, Louis

Duff, Lyman Poore
(1865–1955) Duff practised law in British Columbia. Appointed in 1906 to the Supreme Court of Canada, he served nearly forty years. Knighted in 1934, he was Chief Justice from 1933 to 1943.

Duncan, Chester
For many years a professor of English at the University of Manitoba, also a musician and a broadcaster; author of a collection of autobiographical essays, Wanna Fight, Kid? (1975).

Duncan, Dr. John George
Born in Scotland, Duncan practised medicine in Newfoundland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Duncan, Norman

Dunn, Walter T.D.

Durand, Margaret [Peg]
A friend whom Claire Pratt had me through Shirley Freshman. She lived near the New York hospital where Claire was a patient in 1954.

Dwyer, Father Wilfred
A Canadian Basilian father temporarily posted to Houston at the time of Pratt's visit in April 1946

E

Eaton, Robert Y.
Born (1875) in Ireland, an executive of the T. Eaton Company (1904–42). He was also a director of several other commercial and financial institutions.

Eayrs, Hugh S. [Hughie]
(1894–1940) Born in Yorkshire, joined Macmillan of Canada in 1917. By 1921 he was President of the Company, a post he held until his sudden and untimely death. He and Pratt had become close friends after Eayrs agreed in the autumn of 1924 to publish The Witches' Brew in Canada. He was Pratt's publisher and "brotherly friend" to the end of his life.
Hugh Eayrs

Eayrs, Winnifred [Winnie]
Born (1893) in England, Winnie Eayrs was a sister of Hugh Eayrs and for many years a copy-editor and proof-reader at Macmillans Canada.

Edel, Leon
Born (1907) in Montreal, an early member of the "Montreal Group" of poets and critics in the mid-1920s. Moving to the U.S., he taught and wrote mainly at New York University, later at the University of Hawaii. His major work is a five-volume biography of Henry James.

Edgar, Dona
Wife of Pelham Edgar

Edgar, Jane
Daughter of Pelham Edgar

Edgar, Pelham [old boy]
(1871–1948) Born in Ottawa, educated at Upper Canada College and the Universities of Toronto and Johns Hopkins, Edgar was first appointed to Victoria College to teach French, but in 1902 was appointed Head of its Department of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1938. The teacher and mentor of many noted scholars and writers, including Pratt, he was also a distinguished scholar and author himself. He and Pratt, whom he appointed to his Department in 1920, were life-long friends.
Edgar in Pratt's undergraduate years
Edgar in Acta Victoriana

Eggleston, Wilfrid [Wilf]
(1901–86) A graduate of Queen's University, Eggleston was Ottawa correspondent for the Toronto Star and later Professor of Journalism at Carleton University. He was the author of several books on Canadian politics and policy, including The Road to Nationhood: A Chronicle of Dominion-Provincial Relations (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1946).

Elliott, Ellen
Born (1900) in England, joined Macmillan of Canada as a secretary in 1920. From 1925 to 1937 she was secretary to Hugh Eayrs. Appointed Secretary of the Company in 1937, she became a director of the firm in 1942.

Elson, John Melbourne
(b. l880) A minor novelist and free-lance writer, Elson's only novel of lasting interest is a historical romance, The Scarlet Sash: A Romance of the Old Niagara Frontier (Toronto: Dent 1925).

Endicott, Norman
A professor of English at University College, Toronto. Pratt, for reasons unknown, is said to have 'heartily disliked him.' For an example of their emnity, see D.G. Pitt, The Master Years, 381.

English, Nora
A former student of Desmond Pacey at Brandon College, who had gone on to graduate school at the University of Toronto.

Evans, R.J.
President of Brandon College, Brandon, Manitoba, when Desmond Pacey was appointed.

Everson, Ronald G.

F

Fairley, Barker
(1887–1986) British-born, Professor of German at University College, Toronto (1915–57), Fairley published several scholarly works, most notably on Goethe and was a founder, for a time editor, of The Canadian Forum.
He was also an accomplished painter, Pratt being one of his subjects.

Fairley, Margaret
* (1885–1968) Born in Yorkshire, England, she graduated with first class honours from Oxford (women were not awarded degrees at that time), and became a tutor at St. Hilda's College. She immigrated to Canada, and took her degree at the University of Alberta where she met and married her husband, Barker Fairley, before moving to Toronto. An active member of the Communist Party, Fairley was the editor of the radical magazine New Frontiers. In addition to the anthology The Spirit of Canadian Democracy (1945), she edited The Selected Writings of William Lyon Mackenzie, 1924–37 (Oxford 1960).

Falconer, Sir Robert
(1867–1943) Knighted in 1927, Falconer was a former Presbyterian clergyman and professor of Greek at Pine Hill College, Halifax. He served as President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. Besides academic administration, he was also celebrated for his public oratory and scholarly writing.

Fallis, Reverend Samuel
Managing Director of Ryerson Press.

Fennel, Robert
(b. 1891) Prominent Toronto lawyer and corporate business manager, member of the administrative boards of several major Toronto institutions, including the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum.

Fenwick, Marjorie and Alice
Daughters of Reverend Mark Fenwick; Marjorie had been a student of Pratt at Victoria College.

Fenwick, Reverend Mark

Ferguson, George V.
(1897–1977) Born in Scotland, graduate of Oxford, Ferguson joined The Winnipeg Free Press in 1924, serving as managing editor from 1934 to 1946, when he became editor of The Montreal Star.

Ferne, Doris Maude
(b.l896) Ferne spent most of her life in Victoria, B.C. She wrote verse, stories, and reviews, gave many radio broadcasts. Ferne assisted Alan Crawley in the production of Contemporary Verse (1941–52).

Fidler, Jennie [Fiddler (sic)]
Secretary-treasurer of the Western Ontario (London) Branch of the CAA in 1925

Field, Eugene

Finch, Robert
(1900–95) An American by birth, Finch taught French at the University of Toronto from 1928 to 1968 and was an accomplished painter and musician as well as a poet. His early poems were published in various magazines, and in New Provinces, the first Canadian anthology of 'new poetry,' in which he and Pratt from Toronto were chosen to balance the contributions of Montreal writers F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, Leo Kennedy and A.M. Klein. His first book, Poems (Toronto: Oxford 1946) won him the Governor-General’s medal. He later published several more volumes, including Dover Beach Revisited (Toronto: U Toronto Press 1961) and Acis in Oxford (Toronto: Macmillan 1961), which also a Governor-General’s medal. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1963, and received the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1968.

Fisher, Joseph

Fitzpatrick, Winnie
The Pratts' cleaning lady

Flavelle, Sir Ellsworth
Born (1892) in Toronto, succeeded to his father, Sir Joseph Flavelle's baronetcy in 1939. A member of the governing body of many institutions and organizations, he was a prime mover of the Brebeuf Pageant Committee. A photographer, he published Photography: A Craft and Creed with Ryerson Press in 1943. He and Pratt were close personal friends for many years.

Flavelle, Sir Joseph
(1858–1939) A wealthy, Toronto commercial magnate and financier. He was widely known for his philanthropy and his community "good works."

Fletcher, John Gould
American poet (1886–1950), author of many volumes of verse between 1913 and 1947. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1933.

Flint, Charles W.
President (1915–22) of Cornell College, a small Methodist institution in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Follett
An employee in the Sales Department of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Follis, Samuel

Forbes, Kenneth [Ken]
Born (1892) in Toronto, educated in Montreal and England; a prolific portraitist and landscape painter, Forbes was a winner of several prestigious prizes for his painting, as well as several boxing championships in his early years. His portrait of Pratt now hangs in the foyer of the E.J. Pratt Library at Victoria College.
Forbes' portrait of Pratt, 1943

Ford, Harry E.
Born in Ontario, a graduate of Victoria College, was Professor of French there from 1915 to 1940.

Forum, The Canadian
'A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affais' which began publication in 1920

Fox, William Sherwood
(1878–1967) Fox was in 1925 Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts at the University of Western Ontario. The author of many varied works, he was president of Western from 1927 to 1947. In 1949 Pratt wrote a short foreword to his (and Wilfrid Jury’s) Saint Ignace, Canadian Altar of Martyrdom (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1949).

Fraser, Hermia Harris
Born (1902) in New Brunswick, Harris moved to British Columbia where she developed an interest in the Haida Indians, writing poems on Haida themes and publishing several in Songs of the Western Islands (1945).

Fraser, Isabel
A librarian at one the Toronto libraries

Freeman, Billy
The golf-professional at the York Downs Club

French, Donald G.
(1873–1945) Appointed chief literary editor at McClelland and Stewart in 1920, he was a major influence on Canadian letters for the next twenty years, working with prose writers such as Ralph Connor, Stephen Leacock, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Martha Ostenso, and prestige poets such as Bliss Carman and Duncan Campbell Scott. In the mid-1920s he founded the Canadian literature Club to "foster in the public and awareness of Canadian literature. It survived in Toronto until the 1960s.

French, Emily
One of Pratt's students at Moreton's Harbour (1902–4).

French, William

Frenwick, Reverend Mark
(1858–1946), British-born Methodist (later United Church) clergyman who served in Newfoundland for many years. Known for his rotundity, he was Guardian of the Methodist College Home in St. John's when Pratt was in residence there as a student in 1901–2.

Freshman, Shirley
A close friend of Claire Pratt in Boston

Frigon, Augustin
General Manager of the CBC from 1944 to 1951

Frye, H. Northrop [Norrie]
(1912–91) Frye grew up in Moncton, N. B. A graduate of Victoria College and Oxford University, and an ordained United Church minister, he taught English for many years at Victoria College, where he was Principal (1959–69), and later Chancellor. A distinguished teacher, he is primarily celebrated as a literary critic, publishing many books and essays on a wide range of literary-critical subjects. His most notable books include Fearful Symmetry (1947), a study of Blake, Anatomy of Criticism (1957), and The Great Code (1982), a study of The Bible.

G

Gailico, Paul

Galsworthy, John
(1867-1933) Prominent British novelist and playwright who was to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He is known principally as the author of The Forsyte Saga, begun in 1906 with the novel The Man of Property and continued in five more novels, two interludes and a collection of short stories published in the 1920s. His novels and plays critiqued the social injustices growing out of the class system, and particularly the upper middle class of which he himself was a member. In 1921, Galsworthy became the founding president of the British chapter of P.E.N. (Poets-Essayists-Novelists). See letter to Arthur Phelps (November 9, 1926).
John Galsworthy

Garland, S.E.
A leading bookseller in St. John's, Newfoundland

Garvin, Amelia
Wife of John W. Garvin. Amelia Garvin (1878–1956) wrote, mostly verse, under the pseudonym Katherine Hale. Between 1914 and 1950 she published five books of verse, and a prose work, Canadian Cities of Romance (1928).

Garvin, John W.
(1872–1934) John Garvin was a prominent critic, whose anthology Canadian Poets and Poetry (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1916; rev. 1926), which coupled biographies of the poets with selctions of their work. Husband of Amelia Garvin.

Gaskell, Eric
An Ottawa-based writer of miscellaneous prose, Gaskell was National Secretary of the CAA during the controversial Presidency of Madge Macbeth from 1938 to 1942, when he joined the Navy.

Gay, Robert M.

Gibbon, J.M.

Gibbs, Sir Philip
(1877–1962) English journalist, novelist, and political author, knighted in 1920 for distinguished service as a war correspondent for the Daily Chronicle during World War I. He was literary editor of several leading newspapers.

Gilchrist, Laughlin [or Lachlan]
Professor of Physics at University College, Toronto

Gooderham, George

Gordon, George Stuart
(1881–1942) Merton Professor of English at Oxford, later Professor of Poetry and Vice-Chancellor of the University. He was the author of Companionable Books and More Companionable Books (London: Chatto and Windus 1927 and 1947, respectively) and The Lives of Authors (London: Chatto and Windus 1950).

Gordon, Huntley K.

Gordon, Robert K.
(b.l887) A graduate of Toronto and Oxford universities, and a member of the Department of English, University of Alberta, Gordon is best remembered today for his Anglo-Saxon Poetry (in translation), 1926.

Goudge, Thomas A.
A professor of Philosophy who taught Claire Pratt. The author of several scholarly works, he is probably best known for his The Thought of C.S. Pierce (1950).

Gould, Margaret

Graham, Gwethalyn [Gwen]
Montreal novelist, author of the best-selling Earth and High Heaven which had won the 1944 Governor-General's award for fiction. Active in the Montreal Branch of the CAA and an opponent of the secessionist movement, she was one of W.A. Deacon's three vice-presidents of the CAA in 1947.

Graham, Reverend William C.
(b.1887) Graham was Principal (1938–1955) of United College (formerly Wesley College and later the University of Winnipeg). Pratt had first known him when they were both students in Toronto.

Grant, Marion
Matron of the Pine Hill Divinity Residence at Dalhousie University in 1945.

Gray, John Morgan [Jack]
(1907–1979) Born in Ontario, educated in Canada and in England, Gray joined Macmillan of Canada in 1930 as a travelling salesman (Educational Department). During the next ten years he occupied several other posts in the firm. After service in World War II, he rejoined the firm and in 1946 was made its President. In 1978 he published his autobiography, Fun Tomorrow: Learning to be a Publisher and Much Else. He and Pratt were good friends for many years.

Gray, Morris

Greaves, W. Hubert
An American of independent means whom Pratt had met at Victoria College where he taught Public Speaking. With his wife Cornelia, he often hosted Pratt at the elegant home 'upon the Humber's crested dome' which is celebrated in Pratt's lyric 'In a Beloved Home (To W.H.G.),' first published in Newfoundland Verse, and at their summer retreat near Kingston, Ontario. In 1929, he moved to Yale University.

Green, T. H.

Griffin, Frederick
A leading newspaperman at the Toronto Star, Griffin was sent in 1931 to Russia to report on the progress of Communism. His book Variety Show gives a colourful account of his experiences as a journalist.

Griffin, John

Grove, Frederick Philip
(1879–1948) Born Felix Paul Grθve in East Prussia, author of novels, short stories, essays, and other writings, best known for his novels (e.g. Settlers of the Marsh and Master of the Mill), though some critics give his books of essays pride of place.

Gullen, Frederick C. [Freddie]
A Toronto barrister and solicitor, subsequently a magistrate, and eventually a judge.

Gundy, S.B.
A Toronto literary agent and publisher.

Gushue, Raymond

Gustafson, Ralph
Born (1909) in Quebec, educated at Bishop's and Oxford Universities, Gustafson lived in London, England and New York, before taking up a teaching position at Bishop's. He published his first book of poems, The Golden Chalice, in 1935, followed by more than a dozen more. Fire on Stone (1974) won him a Governor-General's award. He edited several notable anthologies, including his Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Penguin Books, 1942).

H

Hagedorn, John
Proprietor of the Doubleday, Doran Bookshop in Detroit.

Haines, Frederick

Hale, Katherine
Pseudonym of Amelia Garvin

Hambleton, Ronald
* Born (1917) in Lancashire, England, Hambleton emigrated to Canada in 1924, growing up in British Columbia. He published his first poems in the anthology, Unit of Five (Ryerson 1944), which he also edited. After Object and Event (Toronto 1953), he worked as a scriptwriter and interviewer in radio and television. He also wrote a brief biography of Mazo de la Roche: Mazo de la Roche of Jalna (1966).

Hammond, Melvin O. [Mel, Mell]
(1876–1934) Literary editor of the Toronto Globe for many years, the author of several books and many articles, an accomplished photographer, and a collector of paintings and photographs

Hardy, Edwin Austin
(1868–1952) Ontario teacher and school administrator who served as the secretary to the Canadian Authors Association

Hardy, Joseph

Hare, F. Archibald [Archie]
A member of the French Department at Victoria College

Harrington, Michael F.
Born (1916) and educated in St John's, Newfoundland, Harrington has been a broadcaster, teacher, and editor and columnist for the St John's Evening Telegram (1959–83). His books of poetry include Newfoundland Tapestry (1943), The Sea is Our Doorway (1947), and The Modern Magi (1985). Going to the Ice (1986) contains stories of the seal-hunt.

Harris, Charlotte Pitts Pratt [Lottie]
Sister of E.J. Pratt; wife of George Harris

Harris, Chester

Harris, George
Pratt's brother-in-law, married to his sister Charlotte

Harris, Lawren Stewart
(1885–1970) Born in Brantford, Ontario, Harris was one of the original members of the Group of Seven.

Harris, Reverend William

Harrison, G.B.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Harrison taught English for many years at the University of London. He was Head of English at Queen's University (1943–1949), thence moved to the University of Michigan. Author of many scholarly works, he best known for his Introducing Shakespeare (Penguin, 1939).

Harrison, John
A member of the group of Montreal poets associated in the mid-1940s with the small magazines Preview and Northern Review

Harrold, Ernest W.
Associate editor of the Ottawa Citizen, drama critic, and book reviewer

Harvey, Daniel C. [Dan]
(b.1886) Formerly Professor of History at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia, Harvey was Archivist of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia in Halifax when ??

Hatcher, A.G. [Bert]
In 1947, President of Memorial University College, St. John's, Newfoundland

Hathaway, Anne
William Shakespeare's mother

Havelock, Eric A. A former member of the English Department at Victoria College who had moved to Harvard University in the 1940s.

Heming, Arthur
(1870-1940) A prominent painter, illustrator and writer internationally known for his portraits of life in the Canadian North. Misdiagnosed as colour blind, Heming worked almost exclusively in black and white until 1930, but his best known paintings are ia product of the last ten years of his life and are in vivid colour. He illustrated J.W. Tyrrell's Across the sub-Arctics of Canada (1897) and Beckles Willson's history of the Hudson's Bay Company, The Great Company (1899). In addition to The Heming Paintings of Northern Life (1923), he was the author of The Drama of the Forests (1921), Spirit Lake (1923), and The Living Forest (1925), based on his experiences in the wild with illustrations by the author.

Henderson, Christine
Lily Barry, Christine Henderson, and Dorothy Sproule were verse-writing members of the Montreal Branch of the CAA, active in its Poetry Group.

Henry, George

Heron, John

Herrick, Robert

Herriman, Dorothy
A Toronto writer of minor verse and prose, long active in the Toronto Branch of the CAA.

Hetherington, Fred

Hewitt, Foster

Hibbard, Captain James C.
D.S.C and Bar, later Vice-Admiral, Hibbard was also Senior Officer of the Escort during the action described in the poem, Behind the Log.

Hill, Anthony

Hillyer, Robert [Hillier (sic)]
(1895– ) Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and critic, Hillyer reviewed the American edition of Pratt's Collected Poems (Knopf, 1945) in Saturday Review, 28 April 1945.

Hincks, Clarence M. [Clare]
(1885–1964) A medical doctor who became a prominent specialist in mental health. In 1918, with Dr C.K. Clarke (assisted by Pratt who was then working in the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto), he founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (later the Canadian Mental Health Association), of which he was a director until 1952. He and Pratt were close friends for many years.

Hincks, Marjorie
Wife of Clarence Hincks

Holbein

Hollister
A friend of Herbert Davis and Samuel H. Hooke

Holloway, Elsie

Holloway, Balliol
British actor, popular in the 1920s and 1930s

Holloway, Robert E.

Holmes, Marie

Hooke, Samuel H.
Born in England (c1875), Hooke came to Victoria College in 1913 as Associate Professor of Oriental Languages and Literatures. He also taught Modern History and was one of the founders of the University magazine The Rebel (1917–20).

Horwood, Harold

Hosking, Richard
Born (1895) in Ontario and educated at Victoria College, Hosking was for many years a Toronto Family Court judge. He was, like Pratt, on the staff of Canadian Comment in the early 1930s.

House, Daphne
Daughter of E.J. Pratt's brother James, living in St. John's, Newfoundland

Housman, A.E. British poet, (1859–1936). Houseman wrote in The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933): "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act ..."

Howard, Margaret
President, Toronto Branch of the CAA in 1934–35

Huckvale, Robert
In 1932, Huckvale was Accountant and Secretary of Macmillan of Canada in Toronto. From 1940–6, he was its acting President.

Hudson, Carson
A young St. John's businessman, a friend of Ewart Pratt

Hudson, Constance Mary [Connie]
An old school friend of Claire

Hudson, Reba

Hughills, Mother Superior
Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sacred Heart where Pratt taught courses under the auspices of the Nova Scotia Teachers Summer School from 1931 to 33, and again in 1945.

Hunter, Reverend Ernest Crosley [Ernie]
(b.1889) Hunter served United Church circuits in Toronto, Hamilton, and Winnipeg. He was minister of Trinity United, Toronto, from 1948 to 1956.

Hurlow, W.J.
Literary Editor of the Ottawa Evening Citizen

I

Innis, Harold A.
(1894–1952) A political economist at the University of Toronto from 1920 until his death. He was a pioneer in the new discipline of communications and author of several historical studies, including A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1923), The Fur Trade (1930), and (1940). He was Head of the Department of Political Economy at Toronto from 1937 and Dean of Graduate Studies from 1947 until his death.

Irwin, Ruth
Daughter of Bill Irwin of Chicago, and a student at Victoria College in the mid-1940s

Irwin, William A. [Bill]
(1884–1967) Graduate of Victoria College, Professor of Old Testament at the University of Chicago, author of several books, most notably The Old Testament: Keystone of Human Culture (1952).

J

Jackson, A.Y.

Jacobson, Fred
A member of the Montreal Branch of the CAA, Jacobson wrote radio plays and other miscellaneous items.

James, Henry
(1843–1916) American novelist, author of such novels as Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove, and The Turn of the Screw

Janka
A school friend of Claire. Both studied in New York in the mid-1940s.

Jaques, Edna
(b.l891) A prolific writer of sentimental, mostly domestic, verse, published in newspapers, popular magazines, and some dozen small volumes. She enjoyed immense popularity for many years among a certain class of reader.

Jeffers, Robinson
(1887–1962) American poet

Jewett, Arthur R. Born (1904) in England, Jewett was Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie in 1944; later Principal of Bishop's University.

Johnson, Dr Samuel

Johnson, Franz

Johnson, Dr. Hewlett
Archbishop of Canterbury from 19??–??; known as the "Red Dean" for his avid support of the Russian alliance [??]

Johnston, Alex

Johnston, George
Born (1913) in Ontario, Johnston was a former student of Pratt at Victoria College. He taught English at Mt. Allison University 1947–50, when he moved to Carleton University where he taught English there until his retirement in 1979. His first book of poems, The Cruising Auk (1959), was followed by four more and several volumes of translations from the Old Norse.

Johnston, J. George
* (b.l895) A writer in the public relations firm of Johnston, Everson, and Charlesworth and a fellow member of the York Club. Pratt credited Johnston with inspiring him to write Towards the Last Spike when he challenged him to correct the unhistorical treatment of the building of the transcontinental railway in the movie Canadian Pacific (Twentieth Century-Fox 1949) [The Master Years, p. 411].

Joliffe, Mrs. Hazel
A friend who lived with the Pratts in 1934

Jones, Vice-Admiral George C.
(1895–1946) He joined the Navy in 1911 and served in World War I. In World War II, he commanded the North Atlantic Squadron of the Royal Canadian Navy 1940–42, and was Chief of Naval Staff 1944–46.

K

Kain, Conrad
A celebrated mountaineer and guide who lived for many years at Invermere, B.C. In July 1913 he became the first to climb Mt. Robson, the highest peak in the Rockies. Birney's poem about him was first published in National Home Monthly (Dec. 1949).

Keats, John

Keble, John
(1792–1866) A British cleric, Keble was Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1831–41, mainly on the strength of his, The Christian Year (1827). As Pratt says, Keble is generally regarded as a primary instigator of the Oxford Movement, originally an attempt to restore "primitive and Catholic principles" to the Church of England.

Kennedy, Howard A.
(1861–1938) Best known for his travel books, Kennedy was National Secretary of the CAA from 193?–38.

Kennedy, Leo
(1907–2000) Born in Liverpool, England, Kennedy moved to Montreal in 1912. Though he attended Laval, Kennedy first published his verse in the McGill Fortnightly Review, and thus became closely associated with F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, and a member of the McGill Group of poets which also included A.M. Klein. With Scott, he founded the Canadian Mercury dedicated to replacing the romanticism of much Canadian verse with modernist poetics. His only book of verse, The Shrouding, was published by Macmillan in 1933 partly owing to the support of E.J. Pratt. In the late 1930s he moved to the United States where he worked in advertising and public relations.

Kennedy, Roderick S. [Rod]
Literary editor of The Family Herald and Weekly Star. An active member of the CAA, he briefly succeeded his father, H.A. Kennedy, as National Secretary upon his death in 1938, and was National President in 1944–46.

Kennedy, William P.M.
(1879–1963) Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Toronto, later Professor of Law and Dean of the Toronto School of Law, Kennedy was the author of numerous works mainly on Constitutional, Industrial, and Social Law.

Kerr, Reverend F.W.
(b. 1881) Minister of St.Adnrew's United Church, Westmount, Montreal since 1932

Keyes, mary [nιe Ferguson]
A classmate of Claire Pratt, married to Gordon Keyes

Keyes, Gordon L.
(b. 1920) A member of the Classics Department at Victoria College and its Principal in 1976–81

Keyes, Marjorie
The second wife and secretary of Clare Hincks, and Claire Pratt's god-mother

Kilbourn, Mary
Wife of William Kilbourn

Kilbourn, William
(b. 1926) Toronto historian, author of The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin 1956), etc.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie
(1874–1950) Mackenzie King was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister of Canada (1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48). King shared Pratt's interest in spirituality.

Kirkconnell, Watson
(1895–1977) Born in Port Hope, Ontario, and educated at Queen's and Oxford Universities, Kirkconnell was a university teacher (of English and Classics at Wesley College, Manitoba, and English at McMaster University) and administrator (President of Acadia 1949–64), and a prolific author and translator. He published several volumes of verse and many scholarly literary works, especially translations from Ukrainian and other European languages. An early member of the CAA, he held all its national executive offices.

Kirschmann, August

Klein, Abraham Moses
(1909–72) Poet, lawyer, journalist, editor, and public relations man. Klein grew up in Montreal, attending McGill University where in the 1920s he, F.R.Scott, A.J.M. Smith, and Leo Kennedy formed the McGill Group of poets. He was later involved with both the Preview and New Statement Groups. His first book, Hath Not a Jew, appeared in 1940, followed by Poems (1944), The Hitleriad (1944), The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948) for which he won the Governor-General's award, and a novel, The Second Scroll (1951). He suffered from mental illness in his latter years, writing little after The Second Scroll.

Klinck, Carl
(1908–90??) A graduate of the University of Western Ontario and of Columbia University where, as a doctoral student in 1943, he met Henry W. Wells with whom he would author the first book-length study of E.J. Pratt, Edwin J. Pratt: The Man and His Poetry (1947). In 1945 he became Dean of Waterloo College (later University of Waterloo), and, in 1947, Head of the English Department, University of Western Ontario. He published widely on Canadian literary subjects and was General Editor of the Literary History of Canada (1965, 1976).

Klinck, Peggy
Wife of Carl Klinck

Knight, Allan
Brother of Pratt's mother

Knight, Dorothy [Dot]
A cousin of Pratt, daughter of his mother's brother and sister to Muriel Dickson. She was one of the founding members of the Talents Service Club to which Claire and Viola Pratt both belonged.

Knight, Charlotte Pitts
Maternal grandmother of E.J. Pratt

Knight, Edwin John
Brother of Pratt's mother

Knight, G. Wilson

Knight, Michael

Knight, Rachael [or Rachel]
Maternal great-grandmother of E.J. Pratt

Knight, Sophia
Aunt of E.J. Pratt

Knight, Walter
Pratt's first cousin, son of Allan Knight, who settled in Regina

Knight, Captain William
Maternal grandfather of E.J. Pratt

Knister, Myrtle Gamble

Knister, Raymond
(1899–1932) Born in Kent County, Ontario, Knister attended the Universities of Toronto and Iowa State. Publishing verse and short stories in American magazines, he settled in Toronto in the mid-1920s as a free-lance journalist. He wrote two novels, White Narcissus (1929) and My Star Predominant, a 'biographical novel' about the poet Keats, published posthumously in 1934. He died by drowning — perhaps suicide — in 1932.

Knopf, Alfred A.

Knox, Gilbert
Pseudonym of Madge Macbeth

Knox, R.S. [Bobby]
(1887–1975) British-born member of the Department of English, University College (Toronto) and one of Pratt's closest friends, Knox remained at University College until his retirement.

Koudriavtsev, Sergei

Kristen, Dorothy
Unidentified

L

Lacey, Margaret [later Margaret Tansley]
A close friend of Claire from childhood; her father, Alexander Lacey, taught in the French Department at Victoria College.

Lally, Reverend Father
The priest in charge of the Martyrs' Shrine near Midland, Ontario

Lambert, Senator Norman P.
(b.1885) Educated at the University of Toronto, Lambert was for some years on the staff of The Globe and Mail. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1938.

Lampman, Archibald
(1861–1899) Perhaps the major poet of the group known as the "Confederation Poets." Employed in the Post Office Department in Ottawa, he published several volumes including Among the Millet, and Other Poems (Ottawa: J. Durie, 1888) and Lyrics of Earth (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1885).

Lang, Augustus E.
(1862–1945) A graduate of Victoria College, Lang taught German there for many years and was librarian from 1907 to 1924.

Laube, Clifford
Writer for the New York Times

Lawrence, Joseph

Layton, Betty (Sutherland)

Layton, Irving
(b.1910) Layton's first poems appeared in the small magazines First Statement and Northern Review. In 1945, he published his first book, Here and Now; he has since brought out more than fifty books of poetry, won the Governor-General's award, and been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Leacock, Stephen

F.R. Leavis
(1895–1978) Acerbic British critic, author, and editor of the celebrated literary journal Scrutiny

Lechbitner, Ruth
Born (1901) in Indiana, Lechbitner published her first book of poems, Tomorrow’s Phoenix, in 1937. Three other books followed.

LeClaire, Gordon
(b.l905) A high school teacher of English in Montreal, who sometimes travelled as a lecturer and recitalist. He published verse in many journals as well as a half dozen slim volumes.

LeDrew, Robert S.
A native of Brigus, Newfoundland, where Pratt had known him as a boy, LeDrew had come to Toronto in 1915. He and Pratt had lived together for a time in one of several houses they had built as part of a joint venture in real estate in 1916–7. He died of Hodgkins disease in 1919.

LeFθvre, Mrs. L.A.
A wealthy octogenarian who lived on a large estate near the campus of the University of British Columbia when Pratt taught Summer Session there in 1936 and 37. Pratt was an occasional visitor there.

Leggott, Reverend T.W.

LePan, Douglas

Leslie, Kenneth
(1892–1974) Born in Nova Scotia, Leslie was for some years a magazine editor in New York. He published several volumes of poetry; his By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems (Toronto: Ryerson 1938) won him the Governor-General's Medal.

Leslie, M.B.
A staff writer for the Toronto Star's Magazine section

Lessner, Will The New York Times editor in October 1945

Lewis, [Percy] Wyndham
(1884–1957) Painter and prolific writer, Lewis was born in Nova Scotia, but lived most of his life in England. During World War II he lived in Toronto, and he and Pratt were casual friends.

Lighthall, William Douw
(1857–1954) Best known for his anthology Songs of the Great Dominion (London: W. Scott 1998), Lighthall was a founder of the CAA and its President in 1929–31. His collected poems, Old Measures (Montreal: A.T. Chapman) appeared in 1922.

Line, John
(1885–1970) British-born classmate of Pratt at Victoria College, Line was ordained to the Methodist ministry, but joined the Faculty of Theology at Victoria where he taught until his retirement in 1950. He was the author of several books and a leading Canadian theologian for half a century.

Linnell, John

Lismer, Arthur
(1885–1969) Born in England, principal (1916–19) of the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax, became vice-president of the Ontario School of Art in 1919. A founder of the Group of Seven, he had a long and distinguished career as artist, art educator, and lecturer.

Lissner, William
Writer for the New York Times

Little, Reverend William J. [Billy]
(1890–1951) Bursar at Victoria College

Livesay, Dorothy [Dee]
(1909–97) Born in Winnipeg and educated at the Universities of Toronto and Paris, Livesay worked at various times as a social worker and as a teacher, and her verse reflects her socialist and feminist commitments. Her many volumes of poetry include Green Pitcher (Toronto: Macmillan 1928), Day and Night (Toronto: Ryerson 1944) (for which she won the Governor-General's award for 1944), Poems for People (Toronto: Ryerson 1947), and The Documentaries (Toronto: Ryerson 1968). She also published several volumes of prose.

Lloyd, C.F. (1884–1938) Born in England, educated at Queen's University, Lloyd worked in Winnipeg for many years. He published a book of verse, Landfall (1935). He had taken his own life earlier that month.

Locke, Clark E.
(b1890) President of Clark E. Locke Ltd., a Toronto advertising firm, and a long-time friend of Pratt. His wife, Norah, was a daughter of Honorable George S. Henry, Premier of Ontario 1930–34.

Locke, George H.
(1870–1937) For many years Chief Librarian of Toronto Public Libraries, Locke was the author of several works on Canadian history and a founding member of the CAA.

Locke, Russell
A Toronto Lawyer and judge; the brother of Clark Locke

London, Jack
American author (1876–1916) of such tales of action, adventure, and rugged-characters as The CaIl of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, White Fang

Lothian, J.M.
Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Aberdeen, best known for his work on Shakespeare.

Louis, Joe

Love, Christopher

Love, Viola [Vo]
Wife of Christopher Love

Lower, Arthur

M

MacArthur, Duncan
(1885–1943) A graduate of Queen's University, MacArthur was Head of the Department of History there (1922–34), Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario (1934–40), and Minister (1940–3) of Education. See the second paragraph of the letter to Earle Birney (7 August 1940).

Macaulay, Leopold

Macbeth, Madge Hamilton Lyons
(1878–1965) American by birth, Madge Macbeth lived most of her life in Ottawa, publishing several novels under the pseudonym "Gilbert Knox," including The Land of the Afternoon (1924), a satire on political and social life in Ottawa. Active in the Ottawa Branch of the CAA, she was not only the first woman to head the organization but was National President for an unprecedented three terms, from 1939 to 1942. Pratt, as editor of CPM resented the interference of the Ottawa-based Executive. (See The Master Years, pp. 290–3.)

MacCallum, Reid

Macdonald, Grant
Pratt consistently spells his name 'MacDonald.'
(1909–1987) Graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Macdonald was one the Navy's official war artists and was thus a natural choice to illustrate Pratt's Behind the Log (1947). Perhaps best-known for his portraits of actors, he also portrayed other celebrated subjects, including Pratt.

Macdonald's portrait of E.J. Pratt, 1947

Macdonald's illustrations for Behind the Log:

• dust wrapper
• cover page
• frontispiece — H.M.C.S. Skeena
• 5 — ... they piece horizons for the surface hulls ...
• 9 — The Naval Control Service Officer addresses the Masters
• 13 — Destroyer...corvettes...cargo carriers...tankers...refrigeration ships...hybrid types
• 17 — ...the asdic operator in his hut
• 23 — ...and a moon...picked out the seventy ships...
• 29 — ...they ate and worked and slept
• 35 — ...hundreds of sailors un-lifejacketed clawed at the jetsam in the oil and water
• 41 — ...wrote their own obituaries in flame
• 45 — Spinney...does a Blue Danube on the deck

MacDonald, Angus L.
(1890–1954) A former professor at Dalhousie University Law School, MacDonald was premier of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1954, except for the period 1940–5, when he was Minister of Defence for Naval Services in the wartime cabinet of Mackenzie King.

Macdonald, J.E.H.
One of the Group of Seven

MacDonald, John F. [J.H. (sic)]
Born (1878) in Huntington, Quebec and a graduate of Queen’s and Chicago Universities, MacDonald was Professor of English at Queen’s (1908–25) and at University College, Toronto (1925–48). He was one of several editors who worked with Pratt on the Macmillan Shakespeare.

MacDonald, Sir Gordon

MacDonald, Thoreau
(1901–92) Son of Group of Seven artist J.E.H. Macdonald, he specialized in linocuts and wood engravings for book illustration. His illustrations for The Canadian Forum in the 1920s and 30s defined the magazine's style. He also designed many books for the Ryerson Press.

MacDonald, Wilbert L. [Mac]
(l879–1966) A member of the Department of English at the University of British Columbia from 1919 to 1950 and a leading expert on the works of Alexander Pope

MacDonald, Wilson Pugsley
(1880–1967) Born at Cheapside, Ontario, MacDonald made an early name for himself as a poet, pen-and-ink artist, and magician. Publishing a dozen books of mostly romantic, traditional verse, and in the 1920s and 1930s mounting frequent recital tours, he won for himself a considerable popularity among readers with a taste for his kind of verse. Unfortunately for him, he was a man of great vanity, egotism, and an irascible temper, which eventually alienated most of his erstwhile friends. Deacon for a time regarded him as Canada's most promising new poet, but Pierce and Pratt found him neither a notable poet nor a pleasant acquaintance.

endcover designed by MacDonald for his Out of the Wilderness (Ottawa: The Graphic Publishers, 1926)

MacDowell, Frank
* Publicity Manager for the Canadian National Railways and editor of CN Magazine, MacDowell was a fellow member of the Writers' Club. Having published Pratt's 'A Prairie Sunset' in the Magazine, MacDowell suggested that Pratt write a poem on the new 6000 locomotive series — 'No. 6000,' published in the CNR Magazine (December 1931). Pratt also credited him with having suggested the subject for Brιbeuf and His Brethren [The Master Years, pp. 83–5, 235].

MacGillivray, Dugald [Dougald (sic)]
Superintendent of the Maritime and Newfoundland Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the 1920s and later Manager of Eastern Trust Comapany, MacGillvray was a member of the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University.

MacGillivray, James R.
(1902– ) A professor of English at University College, Toronto, as an author best known for his scholarly work on Keats, especially his Bibliography and Reference Guide to Keats (Toronto: U Toronto P 1949)

MacInnes, Tom
(1867–1951) Born in Ontario, MacInnes lived much of his life in Vancouver. He published seven books of poetry, including Complete Poems in 1923, soon after his return from China where he had lived for several years.

MacIver, R.M.
Formerly Head of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, MacIver was Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in 1943.

MacKay, Louis A.
(b.1882) A lawyer who held executive posts in several corporations and was for many years associated with a number of artistic and cultural institutions in Toronto.

MacKay, L.A. [Louis Alexander]
Born (1901) in Ontario, MacKay published two books of poetry: Viper’s Bugloss (Toronto: Ryerson 1938) and The Ill-Tempered Lover, and Other Poems (Toronto: Macmillan 1948). He was for many years a professor of Classics at the Universities of British Columbia and California.

MacKelcan, Frederick R.
A lawyer who held executive posts in several corporations and was for many years associated with a number of artistic and cultural institutions in Toronto

MacKenna, J.V.
unidentified

MacKinnon, Elizabeth
Wife of M.M.H. (Murdo) Mackinnon

MacKinnon, M.M.H. [Murdo, Murdoch]
(b.l917) Educated at the University of Toronto, Mackinnon taught English at the University of Western Ontario (1946–64) and was for some years Head of Department there; he was Dean of Arts (1964–70) and Professor of English (1975–82) at the University of Guelph.

MacLaughlin, Reverend J. F.

MacLean, J. S.
An American-born professor of English at Victoria College, MacLean was author of many scholarly articles and several books, notably John Locke and English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (1936) and Agrarian Age: A Background for Wordsworth (1950).

MacLennan, Dr Sam

MacLennan, Hugh
(1907–90) Born in Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie, Oxford, and Princeton Universities, MacLennan published eight novels between 1941 and 1980. Barometer Rising, his first, won him wide acclaim, and later novels three Governor-General's awards. Pratt first met him in Halifax during the summer of 1933.

MacLeod, Margaret Furness
(b.l873) A resident of Montreal, Mrs. MacLeod wrote verse for magazines and published several small volumes. She served for several terms as President of the Montreal Branch of the CAA; she and Pratt later became good friends and occasional correspondents.

Maclnnes, Campbell

Macmillan, John Walker

Macmillan, Sir Frederick

MacMillan, Sir Ernest
(1893–1973) Born in Toronto and educated — in music — at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities, MacMillan was Principal of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music (1926–42), Dean of Music at the University (1927–52), conductor of the Toronto Symphony (1931–56), and director of the Mendelssohn Choir (1942–56). Also widely renowned as a teacher and composer, he was knighted in 1935.

MacNair, Duncan

Macnaughton, John
(1858–1943) Macnaughton had come to University College, Toronto, as Professor of Classics in 1917 after incumbencies at Queen's University and McGill. He was best known in the 1920s for his trenchant essays in the Canadian Forum in defence of the humanities.

MacNeill, William E.
(1876–1959) Born in Prince Edward Island and educated at Acadia and Harvard Universities, Macneill was for many years Registrar and Treasurer at Queen's University, and Vice-Principal from 1930 to 1947.

Macphail, Sir Andrew
(1864–1938) Born in Prince Edward Island, practised medicine in Montreal. He taught the history of medicine at McGill from 1907 to 1937. He was also a prolific writer, mostly of non-medical books and essays

Macpherson, Campbell

Macpherson, Cluny
(1879–1966) A second cousin to Pratt (their mothers were first cousins). A graduate in medicine from McGill in 1901, he spent his entire medical career, apart from war service, in Newfoundland. He and his brother Harold bred Newfoundland dogs.

Macpherson, Harold
(1884–1963) A St. John’s businessman, brother to Cluny and second cousin to Pratt, and a friend of Florence Miller.

MacRae, A.O. [McCrae (sic)]
A Vancouver writer, president of its CAA branch in 1936

MacTavish, Kate
Wife of Newton MacTavish

MacTavish, Maxine

MacTavish, Newton [Newt]
Born (1877) in Staffa, Ontario, worked for the Toronto Globe (1898–1906), edited The Canadian Magazine (1906–26), and was a member of the Canadian Civil Service Commission (1926–32). He published several volumes of essays.

Magoon, Esther

Magoon, William
Pratt boarded in the summer of 1908 with a homesteader, William Magoon, and his family. According to his daughter, Esther (Magoon) Bailey, he was the first to call Pratt "Ned." For several years Magoon managed a generally unproductive farm to which Pratt acquired mortgaged title in the summer of 1908. Pratt disposed of the farm in 1911, exchanging it for some real estate in Toronto.

Maines, Fred
The husband of Jenny O'Hara Pincock's sister, Minnie Maines

Maines, Minnie [Min]
Jenny O'Hara Pincock's sister

Manero, Tony
Winner of the United States Open Golf Tournament in 1936

Manning, Reverend Charles E.
Secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Methodist Church, Toronto. Pratt was writing him from his student mission-field in south-eastern Saskatchewan, where he served during the summer of 1908.

Markowitz, Jacob [Marko]
(b.l901) A graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Glasgow, Professor of Research in Experimental Surgery at the University of Toronto, and occasional medical author, Markowitz was a staunch supporter of the CPM (Canadian Poetry Magazine. With the Royal Army Medical Corps, he was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and spent several years as a Japanese prisoner-of-war. He and Pratt were close friends.

Marquis, Thomas Guthrie
(1864–1936) Prolific minor author of historical romances and history texts who contributed many titles to the Ryerson History Reader series. His King’s Wish (Ryerson 1924) was a novel for adolescents. He and Lorne Pierce, publisher of the Ryerson Press were friends for many years.

Marriot, Anne
(1913–97) Born in Victoria, B.C., Marriot is best known for her powerful picture of the prairies during the Depression in The Wind Our Enemy (Toronto: Ryerson 1939). She also published several other volumes of poetry, including Calling Adventurers (1941), Salt Marsh (1942), Sandstone and Other Poems (1945), all with Ryerson Press, and, after a long period of silence, Letters from Some Islands (Oakville: Mosaic 1981), The Circular Coast: Poems New and Selected (Oakville: Mosaic 1981) and Aqua (Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn 1992). Marriot was on the committee which founded Contemporary Verse (1941–52), edited by her mentor Alan Crawley.

Martin, Burns
Professor of English at Dalhousie. Frequently reviewing books for the Dalhousie Review, he had treated Pratt’s Still Life very harshly in 1943.

Martyn, Howe
Born (1906) in Bowmanville, Ontario, in 1930 Martyn was a recent graduate of Victoria College. He became editor of the Canadian Bookman in the 1930s, and later for many years Professor of International Business at American University, in Washington.

Masefield, John
(1878–1967)

Massey, Vincent
(1887–1967) Born in Toronto, at various times Canadian Ambassador in Washington, Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain, Chancellor of the University of Toronto, and Governor-General of Canada (1952–59). His chief literary contributions were public addresses notable for their oratorical eloquence.

Masson, Henri

Maugham, Somerset
(1874–1965) British novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Best known for novels such as Of Human BondageThe Painted Veil, Cakes and Ale (1930), The Razor's Edge (1945), and Catalina (1948). His plays include Lady Frederick (1907), The Tenth Man (1910), Our Betters (1917), The Circle (1921), The Letter, and For Services Rendered (1933).

Maynard
The actor who narrated They Are Returning in the CBC broadcast aired 1 July 1945. Unidentified.

Mazzoleni, Ettore [Mazzolini (sic)]
(1905–??) Born in Switzerland, Mazzoleni was a musician, composer, and conductor. He was also a teacher at the Toronto (later Royal) Conservatory of Music, and for some years its Principal.

McAree, J.V.
unidentified

McCauley, Ina H.
A friend of the Pratts, born (c. 1895) in Belleville, Ina McCauley taught school for many years in London, Ontario.

McClung, Nellie
(1873–1951) Politician, suffragist, social reformer, and writer, McClung is best remembered for her novel Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908) and her two-volume autobiography, Clearing in the West: My Own Story (1935) and The Stream Runs Fast (1945).

McCorkell, Father Edmund
A former professor of English at St. Michael's College, Toronto and Principal of St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, McCorkell was Superior General of the Order of Basilian Fathers.

McCrae, A.

McCullogh, Ernest [Ernie]
A prominent Toronto physician

McDowell, Franklin [Frank]
(1888–1965) A publicity man for the CNR, editor of the CNR Magazine, and sometime free-lance journalist, In 1939 he won a Governor-General's medal for his The Champlain Road, a novel that dealt with some of the same historical material as Pratt's Brιbeuf.

McEvoy, Bernard
(1842–1932) Born in England, he served ten years with the Toronto Mail and Empire, and subsequently with the Vancouver Daily Province for many years. He published several books of verse but is best known for his From the Great Lakes to the Wide West (1902).

McEwen, Doris [later Doris Phair]
A friend of Ida Pashley

McFarlane, Leslie
(1902–77) Born in Haileybury, Ontario, McFarlane published many popular stories in various journals, as well as books of juvenile fiction, mainly in the Hardy Boys series as Franklin W. Dixon. He and Pratt met at the Toronto Writers' Club in 1932 and quickly became good friends.

McGrew, Julia

McGuigan, Archbishop James

McInnis, Edgar
(b.1899) For many years a professor of History at the University of Toronto. The author of many publications on historical subjects, he twice won the Governor-General’s medal for non-fiction.

McKelcan, Fred

McKenzie, J. Vernon
Born (1887) in New York, educated in Toronto, McKenzie was editor of Maclean's from 1920 to 1926, and later taught journalism at the Universities of Toronto and Washington (in Seattle).

McLaren, Floris Clarke
A British Columbia writer, born (1904) in Alaska, Floris McLaren published in magazines and one book, Frozen Fire (Toronto: Macmillan 1937), verse that dwells mainly on the Western landscape and Pacific seascape. McLaren was among the group assisting Alan Crawley produce Contemporary Verse, serving as Associate Editor.

McLean, James Stanley
(1876–1954) A graduate of the University of Toronto, McLean was founder and long-time president of Canada Packers Ltd. He and Pratt though good friends were never intimate 'cronies.'

McLeod, John Andrew
A native of Prince Edward Island, McLeod had been bank manager in Harbour Grace (1895–7) and in St John's (1898–1900).

McLuhan, Marshall
(1911–80)

McNaught, Carlton

McQueen, Robert [Pete]
(1896–1941) Professor of Economics and Head of the Department at the University of Manitoba, and a director of the Bank of Canada. He died in a plane crash in February 1941.

McRaye, Walter Jackson [old codger]
(1877–1946) Entertainer and agent, McRaye was a co-performer with poetess Pauline Johnson from 1900 to 1909 and traveled with her in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. He toured alone for many years giving recitals and lectures on Canadian topics.

McWilliams, Roland F.
(b.1974) Born and educated in Ontario, a lawyer by profession, McWilliams was Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1940–53).

Meech, Richard
Born (1893) in Toronto, a lawyer by profession, Meech was Vice-President of Loblaw Groceterias Ltd. and a Director of the Great Lakes Paper Company. He and Pratt were friends for many years.

Meighen, Arthur
(1874–1960) Born in Ontario and a lawyer by profession, Meighen held cabinet posts under Prime Minister Robert Borden, before serving two brief terms as Prime Minister in the 1920s. Defeated by Mackenzie King in 1926, he quit politics until appointed to the Senate in 1932. He later settled in Toronto as a Bay Street financier.

Melville, ??
An acquaintance in Kingston, Ontario

Merkel, Andrew D.
(b. 1884) An occasional poet and Atlantic Superintendent of the Canadian Press

Miller, Phoebe Florence [Florence]
(1889–1979) Miller was born and lived at Topsail, Newfoundland. Her verse appeared mainly in local papers. Her book In Caribou Land was published by Ryerson Press in 1929.

Miller, Norman
Born (1889) in Ontario, educated at Queen's and Harvard Universities, Miller was Professor of Mathematics at Queen's 1919–56.

Millman, Marjorie
A Toronto acquaintance; relative of a close friend of E.J. Pratt

Milton, John

Miner, Jack

Minkler, Frederick W.
(1903–70) Inspector of schools, and later Director of Education in North York and chairman of the first board of governors of Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology (Willowdale, Ontario).

Mitchell, Jean

Moe, Henry Allen
Director of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York

Moffit, Emma
A long-time friend of Viola Pratt. She taught English at the School for the Blind in Brantford, Ontario, and later at Brantford Collegiate.

Monroe, Harriet
(1860–1936) American poet best remembered for having founded in 1912 and edited until her death the influential magazine, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Often referred to as Poetry (Chicago), it provided an outlet for many new, young poets of the time who felt compelled to break with the established tradition. Pratt submitted poems to Poetry, but none was accepted until 1941.

Montgomery, Lucy Maude

Moore, Arthur B.B. [Art]

Moore, Dora Mavor
(1888–1979) Born in Scotland, graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Moore made her acting debut in Ottawa in 1912. She had a varied career as performer, teacher, director, and founder of theatrical groups, including the New Play Society in 1946.

Moore, E.J.
Advertising Manager and editor at Ryerson Press

Moore, Napier

Moores, John

Morgan-Powell, Samuel
(1867–1962) British by birth, Morgan-Powell was for many years Literary Editor of The Montreal Star. He became a devotee of Pratt's poetry and a casual friend. Pratt wrote a foreword to a book of verse, Down the Years, which he published in 1938.

Morine, Sir Alfred B.

Morley, Christopher [Chris]
(1890–1957) American novelist, essayist, literary columnist, and sometime contributing editor of Saturday Night Review

Morley, Helen
Wife of Christopher Morley

Morrison, Hugh W.
(b.1908) Graduate of Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), Director of Talks and Public Affairs at the CBC 1938–43, Morrison was Head of the CBC's Latin American Service.

Munro, Dr. Henry Fraser
Superintendent of Education for the province of Nova Scotia and Director of the Nova Scotia Teachers' Summer School. He hired Pratt to teach in the Summer School in 1931–33, and again in 1945, and sponsored Pratt's temporary membership in the Halifax Club during his stays in Halifax.

Murphy, Emily [nee Ferguson]
(1868–1933). Born in Ontario, Murphy lived most of her life in Western Canada, where she was a writer (as 'Janey Canuck'), feminist, social reformer, and the first woman magistrate in the British Empire. Pratt met her on his 1927 Western tour.

Murray, W.E.G.
(l892–??) General Manager of the CBC from 1936 to 1942.

Myers, ?
Warden of Union College where Pratt stayed while teaching Summer Session at the University of British Columbia

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Nash, Thomas
First husband of Wlliam Shakespeare's grand-daughter, Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Susanna. Thomas Nash of Stratford is not to be confused with Thomas Nash (or Nashe), the Elizabethan poet, playwright and prose writer.

Neish, Arthur
A biologist at Queen's University in 1939. He later joined the National Research Council, where he made a considerable name for himself as a pioneer in plant biotechnology.

Neville, Herbert John Nelles [Jack]
Neville **** (The Truant Years, 335–9).

Neville, John [Jack]

Neville, K.P.R.
(b.1876) Professor of Classics and Registrar at the University of Western Ontario (1917–47) and Dean of Arts (1927–47)

Neville, Reverend Prosper

Newbolt, Henry

Newell, Isaac [Ike]
(1917–1978) Born in Newfoundland, educated at Memorial College in St John's, Queen's and Duke Universities, Newell was a professor of English at Queen's from 1951 until his death.

Newton, Ted
An associate professor at McGill University. In 1943, he was attached to the WIB (Wartime Information Board) and stationed in New York.

Nicholl, Louise

Noble, Reverend Louis

Norman, Dr. James
The Pratt family's doctor and a personal friend

Norwood, Gilbert
(1880–1954) British-born, Norwood had come to the University of Toronto as Professor of Classics in the summer of 1926.

Norwood, Robert

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O'Brien, Arthur H.
Born (1865) and educated in Toronto, O'Brien was a lawyer by profession who acted as legal counsel for the CAA, and financial manager of the CPM, for many years. O'Brien was a thorn in Earle Birney's side during his brief tenure as editor of CPM, as Birney's frequent letters of complaint to William Arthur Deacon testify.

O'Leary, Grattan
(1889–1976) Born in Gaspι, Quebec, O'Leary was for many years a leading journalist attached to the Ottawa Journal, of which he was latterly the editor. A staunch member of the Conservative Party, he was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1962.

Olmstead
Unidentified

O'Reilly, Helen
* Replacement for Ellen Elliott when she resigned from Macmillan's in 1947

O'Sullivan, Maurice

Ogilvie, Will

Osborne, Henry Campbell [Harry]
(1874–1949) Colonel Henry Osborne (1874–1949) was a career soldier who had served in the First World War. He was Secretary-General for Canada of the Imperial War Graves Commission and a founder of the Dominion Drama Festival. Pratt had known him when he lived in Toronto before moving to Ottawa.

Osborne, Yvonne
Wife of Henry Osborne

Outerbridge, Sir Leonard

P

Pacey, Desmond [Des]
(1917–75) Born in New Zealand and educated in England and in Canada, Pacey taught English at Brandon College in Manitoba (1940–44) and in 1944 moved to the University of New Brunswick, remaining there in several academic and administrative posts until his death. Best remembered for his championship of Canadian literature and studies, he published Creative Writing in Canada (1952), Ten Canadian Poets (1958), several books on Frederick Philip Grove, and many scholarly articles.

Packard, F.C., Jr.
Associate Professor at harvard University in 1946, Packard was the Editor of Harvard Vocarium Records, a subsidiary of the Harvard Film Service.

Page, Patricia Kathleen [P.K.]
Born (1916) in England, raised and educated in Alberta, Page first published poems in various magazines and in Unit of Five (1944), a collection of verse by five young poets: Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, P.K. Page, Raymond Souster, and James Wreford. She has since published several volumes solely of her own, including The Sun and the Moon (1944), As Ten as Twenty (1946), Cry Ararat! (1967), Evening Dance of the Grey Flies (1981), The Glass Air (1985), and Hologram: A Book of Glosas (1994). In 1954 The Metal and the Flower won her a Governor-General's award for poetry. She is also a painter.

Parker, Harley
A close friend of Marshall McLuhan, with whom he later collaborated on a book, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (new York: Harper & Row 1968)

Parkman, Francis
(1823–93), American historian whose Jesuits of North America was a major source for Pratt's Brιbeuf and His Brethren

Parks, Arthur E.
Medical Director of the Canada Life Assurance Company

Parsons, Mrs. Horace
Secretary of the Toronto Branch of the CAA

Pascal, Gabriel
Hungarian-born film producer (e.g. Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra), planning to film Paul Gallico's Dunkirk novelette, The Snow Goose (1940), had come to Canada to film snow geese at Jack Miner's bird sanctuary at Kingsville, Ontario. Learning that Pratt was writing a poem on Dunkirk, he asked him to supply verse to be used in the movie. Pratt did so and was promised a substantial payment, but the film was never made and Pratt was never paid. The verse written for the film vanished, though abortive lines on the snow goose theme appear in the Dunkirk MSS in the Pratt Collection at Victoria College Library. Pratt's account of the affair in the letter to George Dillon (26 August 1941) is quite misleading. See also the letter to Ellen Elliott (7 October 1941).

Pashley, Ida [Pash]
A family friend; one of the founders of the Talents Service Club to which both Viola and Claire Pratt belonged

Pearson, Lester B. [Mike]
Prime Minister of Canada 1963–68

Pearson, Marion [nιe Maryon Elspeth Moody]
Wife of Lester B. Pearson; Pratt had taught her at Victoria College in 1920

Peene, Vida
Most accurately identified as a 'practical patron' of the arts in Canada, especially the visual and performing arts. Deeply involved in many other community and national organizations, she was awarded the Order of Canada in 1970.

Penfold, Reverend John
Taught at the Jesuit seminary at Guelph

Perry, Bliss
(1860–1954) Noted American author, scholar, and professor, Perry taught English Literature at Princeton (1893–9) and at Harvard (1899–1930) Universities. He was the author of many books, fiction and non-fiction. Douglas Bush had been his student in the 1920s.

Perry, Dr.
Head of English Department, University of Buffalo

Perry, Martha Eugenie
(1898–1958) Born in Ontario, Perry lived most of her life in Victoria, B.C. She wrote varied items for journals on both sides of the Atlantic, published a book on the deaf, a book of fiction, and four of verse.

Phelps, Ann
Daughter of Arthur and Lila Phelps; later Mrs. J.D. Hamilton

Phelps, Arthur Leonard [Art]
(1887-1970)  Born in Columbus, Ontario, he received his B.A. from Victoria College in 1913. Phelps was ordained a Methodist minister in 1915, but left the ministry to teach English at Cornell College in Iowa in 1920. In 1921, he took up a position at Wesley College, later United College (1921-45). After serving as General Supervisor of CBC's International Service for two years, he moved to McGill University (1947-53). As a poet, Phelps published only two small books, Poems (Mount Vernon, Iowa: The English Club of Cornell College, 1921) and A Bobcaygeon Chapbook (Lindsay, Ont.: Author 1922), but his chief literary work was as a critic. He is best known as a commentator on Canadian affairs in various CBC radio series, including the long-running Sunday morning Neighbourly News. He and Pratt were life-long friends.
Arthur L. Phelps, c1922

Phelps, Lila [Lal]
Lila Irene Nicholls married Arthur Phelps in 1915

Phoebe
An old friend of the family, referred to as 'Auntie Phoebe' when Claire Pratt was a child (see the letter to Claire Pratt dated 10 July 1939)

Pickthall, Marjorie
(1883–1922) Born in England, Pickthall lived in Toronto from 1889 to 1912. Before her early death, she published two books of poetry — Drift of Pinions (Montreal: University Magazine, 1913) and The Lamp of Poor Souls (Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 1916) — as well as the verse drama The Woodcarver's Wife (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922), 200 short stories, and three novels, two for children. Pratt knew her as a librarian at Victoria College.

Pierce, Lorne A. [Mephisto, old thing, old Lucifer, old Beeswax, Lord and Editor]
(1890–1961) A graduate of Queen's and several other universities, Pierce was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1916. From 1920 to 1960 he was editor-in-chief of Ryerson Press (formerly the Methodist Book Room), which he made into one of the most productive publishing houses in Canada. An ardent literary nationalist, Pierce not only encouraged and published Canadian authors, but wrote many books and pamphlets on Canadian literary, educational, and religious subjects. In 1926, he endowed a prize — the Lorne Pierce Medal — to be awarded by the Royal Society 'in annual recognition of achievement in imaginative and critical literature.' In 1922 Pierce accepted Pratt's first collection of poems, Newfoundland Verse. He and Pratt were good friends and frequent correspondents for many years.
Lorne Pierce

Pike, Muriel [Mumu]

Pike, William H. [Will]
Another Newfoundland-born probationary minister, friend and classmate of Pratt. Ordained in 1911, Pike served mainly ethnic Methodist missions in Western Canada. No relation to Willis Pike (below).

Pike, Willis [Uncle Billy]
A Bell Island resident; Pratt frequently visited Pike and his wife and three daughters when he served the Portugal Cove-Bell Island Methodist circuit as a probationary minister in 1905–7.

Pincock, Clayton

Pincock, Jenny O'Hara [Jen]
(1890—1948) Wife of Newton Pincock, the former Jenny O'Hara, was an ardent spiritualist, accomplished musician, and amateur poet. Her The Trails of Truth (Los Angeles, California: Austin 1930) includes an "Account of this Seance under Mrs. X's pen" which was identified by Claire Pratt as being by her mother (pp. 76–80), and E.J. Pratt wrote the foreward to Hidden Springs: A Narrative Poem of Old Upper Canada and Other Poems (Waterloo, Ont.: [n.s.] 1950).

Pincock, Newton [Newt]
(1884–1928) Born in Newfoundland, where his father, Reverend James Pincock, was, like Pratt's, a British-born Methodist minister, Pincock had been a boyhood friend of Pratt. An osteopath, he practised in St. Catharine's, Ontario, where Pratt visited him and his wife and later attended some of their spiritualist seances.

Pitt, David G.

Pitts, John
Great-grandfather of E.J. Pratt

Poetry (Chicage)
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in 1912 by Harriett Munroe who served as its editor until 1936. It was the leading forum for modernist verse in North America, publishing writers like Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot.

Pomeroy, Elsie

Potter, William A.
A member of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Toronto, Professor from 1925. He died while on research leave in 1931.

Potts, Paul

Powell, Mr. and Mrs.
Unidentified

Pratt, Arthur Milligan [Art]
(1886–1961) E.J. Pratt's brother. In 1924, he lived with his new wife, Maud, in Liverpool, where he was in business. Pratt made their home his headquarters during his visit to Britain.

Pratt, Calvert Coates [Cal]
(1888–1963) The youngest of Pratt's surviving brothers. A prominent St. John's businessman, and president or director of a number of commercial firms, he was named to the Canadian Senate in 1951. He was widely known for his philanthropic benefactions.

Pratt, Calvert
E.J. Pratt's nephew; Calvert Coates Pratt's younger son

Pratt, Charlotte Pitts
See Charlotte Harris.

Pratt, Claire
See Mildred Claire Pratt.

Pratt, Daphne
See Daphne House.

Pratt, Edwin John [E.J., Ned]
(1882–1964)
Pratt at Lake O'Hara, ready to climb Cathedral Mountain, July 1913
Pratt in 1926
Pratt in the summer of 1951 on the verandah at the Clarkes' cottage.
Pratt in 1962

Pratt, Ewart
E.J. Pratt's nephew; elder son of E.J. Pratt's brother Cal

Pratt, Fanny Pitts Knight
Mother of E.J. Pratt
John and Fanny Pratt, St. John's, 1901, dressed for presentation to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary)
E.J. Pratt, his daughter Claire, and his mother at her St. John's home, June 1925

Pratt, Florence Sophia [Floss, Poss]
(1892–1984) One of Pratt's three sisters. She never married and lived most of her adult life in Toronto.

Pratt, James
(1792–1858) Grandfather of E.J. Pratt was a leadminer who worked most of his life in the Old Gang mines at Gunnerside in Yorkshire. In 1813, he married Sarah Bell, who bore him thirteen children, five of whom died in infancy. The family lived for a time at Barnard Castle near Durham. Poorly educated, the family were converts to Methodism. (See The Truant Years, 4–6.)

Pratt, James Charles Spurgeon [Jim]
Brother of E.J. Pratt

Pratt, Reverend John [Johnny]
Father of E.J.Pratt
The Pratt family, 1895.
Seated Left to Right: John, Charlotte, Floss, William, Arthur, Fanny. Standing Left to Right: Edwin, James. Reclining, Calvert. Nellie was born the following year.

Pratt, John Kerr [Jack]
(1909–80) Eldest son of Pratt's brother James. A St. John's businessman, he was father of the painter Christopher Pratt.

Pratt, Maud
Wife of Arthur Pratt

Pratt, Mildred Claire [Claire; Cakey, Caykey, Kaky, Cakes and Ale, Pie, Cayke; Chick, Duckings, little Princess; Lovins]
(18 March 1921–5 April 1995) The only child of E.J. and Viola Pratt, Claire was an artist (woodcuts and wood engravings), writer, editor, and poet (haiku). She contracted polio in her right leg in the fall of 1925, undergoing numerous operations between 1925 and 1936 to straighten it, and suffered from osteomeylitis and other painful medical complications throughout her life. In 1954, her spine was fused and she spent 20 months in a body cast; in 1965 she was finally unable to continue her career as an editor.

Claire was educated at Victoria College, where, despite being hospitalized for much her final year, she won the gold medal in Philosophy in 1944, and at Columbia University graduate school in International Studies. In 1944, she and a friend started The Book Truck (1945–46), which became the Claire Pratt Book Service (1947-50); and she worked as an editor with Harvard University Press (1951–54) and McClelland & Stewart (1955–65), working with such authors as Margaret Laurence and Irving Layton. Her published work includes two books of verse, Haiku (1965) and The Music of Oberon, and a history of the Pratt family, The Silent Ancestors (1971), and her art was widely shown in Canada and the United Staes throughout the 1960s and 70s. She was active in Amnesty International and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.
E.J. Pratt and Claire Pratt at Bobcaygeon, c1931
Claire and Viola, 1937
Claire and Viola, 1954

Pratt, Nellie Beatrice
Sister of E.J. Pratt

Pratt, Sarah Ann
Sister of John Pratt; aunt of E.J. Pratt

Pratt, Sarah Bell
Grandmother of E.J. Pratt

Pratt, Viola Leone Whitney [Vi, mother, old darling, your Majesty, ducks]
(1893–1984) Born at Atherley, Ontario, Viola Whitney was a graduate of Victoria College and the Ontario College of Education. She married E.J. Pratt in August 1918, and over the years was manager of their very busy household and double careers. In addition to assisting her husband with the production of Canadian Poetry Magazine and with research for his books (most notably, The Last Spike), she was for many years an editor at the United Church Publishing House (Toronto), and the founding editor of the United Church children's magazine, World Friends (1929–55). She wrote and published several books, most notably Famous Doctors: Osler, Banting, Penfield (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin 1956), and Journeying with the Year (Toronto: The Women's Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada 1957), a collection of short pieces, mostly her own, written for young readers during her twenty-six years as editor of World Friends. Intensely interested in the study of comparative religions, a social activist, and popular public speaker, she was awarded an honourary Doctorate of Sacred Letters by Victoria College for 'her outstanding literary contributions and ... rare combination of intellect, temperment, and faith.' She died in 1984.
Viola Leone Whitney, 1913
Pratt's wedding to Viola Whitney, 20 August 1918
Viola Pratt, 1962

Pratt, William Knight [Will]
(1878–1924) Pratt's eldest brother, who had left home as a young man and died "under mysterious circumstances" in the United States.

Priestley, Francis E.L.
(1905–1990) Born in England, educated at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto, Priestley was professor at the Universities of Alberta (1931–6) and British Columbia (1940–4), before joining the Department of English at University College, Toronto, where he remained until retirement.

Priestley, J.B.

Proctor, A.H. [Bert]
(b.l878) President of Jones, Proctor Bros. Ltd., Toronto Insurance Brokers

Puddester, Gwenyth Pratt [Mrs. Harold Puddester]
Daughter of Pratt's brother Jim, married to the son of Sir John Puddester

Puddester, Sir John
Member of Newfoundland's Commision of Government

Q

R

Ramsay, Dr.
Professor of Greek at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon

Rashley, R.E.

Ray, Margaret [Peggy]
Associate, later Head, Librarian at Victoria College.

Raymond, W.O.
Professor of English at Bishop's University, whom Pratt and G.H.Clarke had nominated for membership in the Royal Society of Canada in 1935.

Reaney, James

Lady Roddick [Amy Redpath]
Born Amy Redpath (c1880), widow of Montreal surgeon, medical professor and Dean of Medicine at McGill, Sir Thomas Roddick (1846–1923), she had by 1940 published a dozen or more volumes of verse. In 1940, she agreed to have her name on the masthead of the CPM as a member of the Advisory Council on Awards.

Reeves, Wilfred
* (b.1901) A freelance journalist and advertising man, he and W.A. Deacon Open House (Ottawa: Graphic Press, 1931), to which many members of the Toronto Writers' Club contributed essays. Pratt's contribution was an attack on modernist poetry entitled 'The Fly-Wheel Lost' [Pursuits Amateur and Academic, 59–65].

Reynolds, Ella Julia
(1881–1970) Hamilton-born journalist, author and poet. She worked at the Hamilton Spectator from 1912 to 1945, writing music and theatre reviews as well as the book column, "Under the Study Lamp," and a weekly feature, 'Wren's Nest,' under the pen name of Jenny Wren.

Rhodenizer, Vernon B.
(l886–1968), graduate of the University of Manitoba and of Harvard, Rhodenizer was Professor of English and Head of Department at Acadia University (1918–54).

Richardson, Lorne

Riddell, John Henry
(1863-1952) graduated from Victoria College in 1890, its final year in Cobourg. He was Principal of Wesley College in Winnipeg from 1917 to 1938 and a pioneer of education in the Canadian West.

Ridout, Denzil

Robbins, William [Bill]
Born (1909) in Cranbrook, B.C. and educated at the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto, William Robbins was Professor of English at the University of British Columbia until his retirement in 1977.

Roberts, Charles G.D [Charlie, C.G.D.]
(1860–1943) New Brunswick-born poet and writer of short stories and prose romances, Roberts was one of the so-called "Confederation poets." He had taught at King's College in Nova Scotia, and later lived in new York and London before returning to Canada in 1925. He settled in Toronto. He produced ten books of poetry, but is best known for his early work including Orion, and Other Poems (Philadelphia: Lippincott 1880), In Divers Tones (Boston: E. Lothrop 1886) and Songs of the Common Day (London: Longmans, Green 1893), and for his Selected Poems (Toronto: Ryerson 1936). He was knighted in 1935.

Roberts, Michael

Roberts, Ted
A part-time actor affiliated with King’s College where he taught elocution and sometimes led the Glee Club choir.

Roberts, Theodore Goodridge [Theodore Goodrich (sic)]
(1877–1953) Brother of Charles G.D. Roberts. Born and educated in Fredericton, he spent many years in journalism in the U.S.A. and in Newfoundland. He published two books of verse and some thirty or more novels, mostly in a romantic vein.

Robertson, Grant
Son of John C. Robertson, he taught Greek at Victoria College.

Robertson, John C.
(1864–1956) Former Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts at Victoria College. He had retired from Victoria College in 1932.

Robins, John D.
(1884–1952) Robins was in the Department of English at Victoria College; from 19??–??, he was Head of Department and Head Librarian.

Robins, Leila
Wife of John D. Robins; she was an ardent supporter of the CCF and the League for Social Reconstruction.

Robinson, Edwin Arlington
(1869–1935) American poet, author of many volumes, Robinson is best remembered for his poem 'Miniver Cheevy.' His Man Against the Sky (1916) may have mildly influenced Pratt's The Iron Door.

Robinson, J. Alexander
Pratt's old teacher at Methodist College; founder and editor of the St. John's Daily News.

Robson, Albert H.
(1882–1939) Artist, engraver, printmaker, and writer; Secretary of the Toronto branch of the CAA. A founding member of the Arts and Letters Club, the CAA, and the Dominion Drama Festival, he is best remembered for his sponsoring the Group of Seven painters at a time when their works were not in general public favour. He published Canadian Landscape Painters in 1932.

Roost, Bill

Rosenberger, Coleman
A New York journalist who wrote for several American papers. His review of the American edition of Pratt’s Collected Poems (Knopf 1945) appeared in the N.Y. Times Book Review, 20 May 1945, 5.

Ross, Malcolm
Born (1911) in Fredericton, N.B., educated at the Universities of New Brunswick, Toronto, and Cornell, Ross was on the WIB (Wartime Information Board) in 1943. Later professor of English at the University of Manitoba, and Queen's and Dalhousie Universities, he published several scholarly books and many articles. As the chief editor of the New Canadian Library Series, he had a tremnedous influence on the formation of the canon of Canadian literature.

Ross, Philip Danksen
(1858–1949) Proprietor and editor of the Ottawa Journal for more than sixty years.

Ross, W.W.E. [Eustace]
(1894–1966) For many years a geophysicist at an observatory near Toronto, Ross published several books of verse.

Rowell, Langford
Langford Rowell

Rowles, P. Winnie
Winnie Rowles at her cottage near Kington, Ontario, summer 1946

Roy, Gabrielle

Roy, James A.
Born (1884) in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh, Roy taught English at Queen's University from 1920 until his retirement.

Royal Society
Formed in 1882 to foster the development of science and culture in Canada

Ruddick, Bruce

Rukeyser, Muriel

Russel, H.Y.
Secretary-Treasurer of the Women's Canadian Club in Montreal

S

Sage, Walter
(l888–1963) Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia and author of many articles and reviews

Salverson, Laura Goodman
(1890–1970) In 1923, Goodman, who was of Icelandic origins, published her first novel, The Viking Heart (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1923), based on the experiences of Icelandic pioneers in Manitoba, to a generally warm reception. Her subsequent six novels were less successful, but her autobiography, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (Toronto: Ryersons; London: Faber and Faber 1939), is one of the best Canadian examples of the genre.

Sandburg, Carl
(1878–1967) American poet

Sanders, Wilfred
Born (1907) in South Africa, and educated at the University of Toronto, Sanders worked as a journalist before being appointed Co-director of the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion in 1941.

Sanderson, Charles R.
(b.1887) Head Librarian, Toronto Public Library

Sandwell, Bernard Kebel [B.K.]
(1876–1954) As the editor of Saturday Night (1932–52), Sandwell was a highly influential critic. He also served as Rector of Queen's University and a governor of the CBC (1944–47), as well as Honorary President of the CAA (19??).

Saunders, Robert Hood
(1903–55) Alawyer, Mayor of Toronto 1945–48. At the time of his death he was Chairman of the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario.

Saunders, S.J. Reginald (1898–1945) Born in England, Saunders settled in Toronto in 1928 and started a publishing business there in 1931.

Savage, Mr
In the Educational Department at McClelland and Stewart, he sometimes gave Claire Pratt editorial work while she was convalescing in 1955–6

Schaefer, Carl

"Ned at Ease" — Carl Schaefer's pen-and-ink sketch of Pratt at Winnie Rowles' house in Kingston, 6 August 1951

Schrum, Gordon
(1896–1985) A graduate of Victoria College, Schrum was a member of the Physics Department at the University of British Columbia and head of Department from 1937 to 1961, during which time he also served as Dean of Extension (1937–53) and Dean of Graduate Studies (1957–61). In his 'second career' he was Chairman of the British Columbia Hydro-Electric Power Commission, later serving as Director of Atomic Energy of Canada, and the first Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

Sclater, Gladys Jean
Wife of Bill Sclater

Sclater, Reverend J.R.P
Born (1876) and educated in England, in 1945 Sclater had been minister of Old St. Andrew’s United Church in Toronto since 1924. He was Moderator of the United Church 1942–4.

Sclater, Lt-Commander William [Bill]
Born (1907) in Scotland, after military service in the Far East, Sclater came to Canada in 1931. He served with the Canadian Navy during World War II. His Haida won a Governor-General's award in 1947. See the letter to Viola Pratt dated 14 July 1945.

Scott, Charles Prestwich
(1846–1932) One of most celebrated English journalists of his time, Scott was editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1872 to 1929.

Scott, Duncan Campbell
(1862-1947) Born in Ottawa, Scott served for many years in the Federal Department of Indian Affairs. Like his good friend Archibald Lampman, and maritime poets Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman, he is best remembered as one of the Confederation Poets." His books include The Magic House and Other Poems (Ottawa: J. Durie, 1893), Lundy's Lane and Other Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1916), Beauty and Life (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921), and The Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1926).

Scott, Elise [nιe Aylen]0.
(b.1904) Duncan Campbell Scott's second wife, whom he married in 1931. A minor poet in her own right, she published one book of verse, Roses of Shadow (Toronto: Macmillan 1930.

Scott, Francis Reginald [F.R., Frank]
(1899–1985) Born in Quebec City, Scott was a professor at the McGill School of Law, a political activist and one of the founding members of the CCF party (forerunner to the NDP), and a "modernist" poet. His books of poetry include Overture (1945), Events and Signals (1954), Signature (1964), Collected Poems (1981). In 1934, Scott — on behalf of A.J.M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, and A.M. Klein, all from Montreal and known as the "Montreal" or "McGill" Group of poets — invited Pratt, and later Robert Finch, to join them in putting together an anthology of "new" poetry. The anthology, published in 1936, was entitled New Provinces.

Scott, James
(b.1916) At various times professor of English, literary editor, author, and political organizer, Scott was in the Talks and Public Affairs Department at the CBC in 1947.

Scott, John
Managing editor of The Globe and Mail

Scott, Randolph

Scott, Walter

Scott, Winfield Townley
(b.1910) American poet, journalist, and critic

Seaborn, (Miss) Daughter of Edwin Seaborn

Seaborn, Edwin
(1872–1951) A medical doctor and occasional author. He published The March of Medicine in Western Ontario (Toronto: Ryerson) in 1944

Seaver, Edwin

Sedgewick, Garnet G.
(1882–1949) Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of British Columbia, best remembered for his Of Irony, Especially in Drama (1935, 1948).

Shapiro, Karl (b.l913) Published his first book of verse, Poems, in 1935. His V-Letter, a collection of army poems, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945. From 1950 to 1956 he was editor of Poetry (Chicago).

Shaw, Neufville
(b.1915) A Montreal writer whose modernist verse Pratt particularly disliked, Shaw had published verse in various magazines. As editor of Preview, he attacked Smith’s anthology The Book of Canadian Poetry ("The Maple Leaf Is Dying," Preview, Dec. 1943).

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shepard, Odell [Shephard (sic)]
(1884–1967), a American, was for many years Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A friend and admirer of Bliss Carman, he published a study of him, Bliss Carman (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1923).

Shephardson, Dr.

Sigmund, Dorothy
A former classmate of Claire at Victoria College who lived with the Pratts for several years while attending university. A good typist, she sometimes typed poems for Pratt.

Sinclair, Gordon
(1900–84) Sinclair joined the Toronto Star in the early 1920s. As a reporter he travelled widely, becoming one of Canada's most colourful journalists, broadcasters, and television personalities.

Sinclair, Lister

Sirluck, Ernest [Ernie]
(b.l918) Sirluck graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1940, completing his graduate studies at the University of Toronto after serving overseas. A respected Milton scholar he taught English at the University of Chicago before returning to the University of Toronto as Dean of Graduate Studies and later Vice President. He went on to become President of the University of Manitoba (1970–76).

Sisco, Reverend Cordon

Sissons, Charles B.
(1879–1965) In 1947, Professor of Ancient History at Victoria College, author of Edgerton Ryerson: His Life and Letters (1937, 1947) and A History of Victoria University (1952). An ardent mountaineer, he was President of the Alpine Club in 1920–2.

Skinner, Constance

Smallwood, Joseph R.
The first premier of the province of Newfoundland, which entered Confederation in 1949

Smily, Judge Percy E.F. [Judge Smiling]
(b. 1890) Appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1946

Smith, A.J.M. [Arthur, Art]
(1902–80) Poet, critic and anthologist, Smith was associated as an undergraduate at McGill University with the 'Montreal Group' which included F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein, and Leo Kennedy. Although he spent most of his academic career as Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Lansing, he maintained close ties with the Canadian literary community, editing the influential anthology, The Book of Canadian Poetry (1943). He won the Governor General's award for News of the Phoenix (1944).

Smith, A. Lloyd
(c. 1890–1962) A graduate of Victoria University where he was a classmate of Pratt, he was a United Church miniter in Montreal.

Smith, Evelyn [Mrs. Wendell]
A Librarian at Victoria College

Smith, F.D.L.
Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail

Smith, Macdonald
Winner of the Canadian Open Golf Tournament in 1926 and many others. He was elected to the Professional Golf Association's Hall of Fame in 1954.

Smith, Sidney [Sid]
(1897–1959) Formerly Dean of Law at Dalhousie University, Smith was President of the University of Manitoba from 1934–45, and of the University of Toronto from 1945–??

Smith, W.G
Chief instructor in the Department of Psychology, he had been Pratt's overseer in the Psychology laboratories as well as supervisor of his dissertation research. Their relationship was one of 'chronic antagonism.' (See D.G. Pitt, The Truant Years, 149, 152–4.)

Snead, Sam
The celebrated American golfer had won the Canadian Open in 1938 and 1940, and was the winner again in 1941.

Soper, Samuel H.
A Newfoundland-born probationer, friend and classmate of Pratt. After ordination, Soper served for many years as a missionary of the Methodist (later United) Church in China.

Souster, Raymond
(b.1921) In 1946, Souster had published only one book of verse, When We Are Young. In the next four decades he published more than a dozen others, including The Colour of the Times (1964), which won him a Governor-General's award. He also edited several magazines devoted primarily to "experimental" verse.

Soward, Frederic H.
Born (1899) in Minden, Ontario, and a graduate of the Universities of Toronto, Edinburgh, and Oxford, Soward was Professor and later Head of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He was author of many publications on historical subjects.

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Speakman, Horace B.
Born (1893) in Lancashire, England and a graduate of the University of Manchester, Speakman was Professor of Zymnology (the science of fermentation) at the University of Toronto from 1919 to 1928, when he was appointed first Director of the Ontario Research Foundation.

Spencely
Unidentified

Spencer, Herbert

Spencer, Theodore
(1902–49) American poet, professor, prolific critic and editor, especially of Shakespeare

Spender, Stephen

Sproule, Dorothy
Lily Barry, Christine Henderson, and Dorothy Sproule: verse-writing members of the Montreal Branch of the CAA, active in its Poetry Group.

Spry, Graham
(1900–1983) Born at St. Thomas, Ontario, Spry had a varied career in journalism, politics, and business. In 1927 he was National Secretary of the Association of Canadian Clubs and had invited Pratt to make the western tour. Chairman of the Canadian Radio League (1930–4), he helped found the CBC in 1936. Long an activist in socialist politics, he worked for the British Government during World War II.

Squire, Sir John Collings
(1884–1958) Poet and critic, Squire was editor of the London Mercury (1919–1934), a journal of literature and the arts, and author or editor of many books of both prose and verse.

St Laurent, Louis
Prime Minister of Canada from 19?? to 19??

Stanley, Carleton W.
(1886–1971) A graduate of Victoria College and of Oxford, Stanley taught English briefly at Victoria College, and later taught Classics at McGill. He was President of Dalhousie from 1931 to 1945.

Stauffer, Ruth
A class mate of Claire Pratt. The Stauffer family lived on a farm which Claire visited from time to time. Ruth married Elery Buckley.

Steacey, Walter

Stephen, A.M.

Stephenson, Frederick CIark

Stevenson, Lionel

Stevenson, May

Stevenson, O.J.
Professor of English at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph

Stewart, Harold L.
Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University

Strange, Kathleen [Kay]
A little known Alberta writer

Strange, William [Bill]
(b.1902) Wrote for the Toronto Star and Canadian Comment during the 1930s. He was made Lt. Commander of the RCNVR [??] in 1942 and appointed to Naval Service Headquarters in Ottawa. In 1945 he was Director of Naval Information.

Stringer, Arthur
(1874–1950) A prolific author of some fifteen volumes of heterogeneous verse and several of prose, perhaps best remembered in Canadian literary history for his "free verse" Open Water (1914), usually regarded as the first "experimental" volume in Canada.

Sturdy, John Rhodes
Strudy joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in Montreal in 1941. He served on a number of naval ships including the minesweeper Kapuskasing, of which he was First Lieutenant. In 1942 he was liaison officer with Universal Pictures for the filming of Corvette with Randolph Scott.

Sullivan, A.M. [Mike]

Summers, ??
Professor of Economics, University of Buffalo, graduate of University of Toronto

Sutherland, Audrey
Wife of John Sutherland

Sutherland, John
(1919–1956) Born in Nova Scotia, Sutherland attended Queen's and McGill Universities. In Montreal in 1942 he founded First Statement, a "little magazine" of literary criticism and the work of new writers. After three years it merged with Preview, a similar journal, to form Northern Review (1946–56) with Sutherland as editor. Despite persistent illness, a prolific, often acerbic literary critic, he is probably best known for his The Poetry of E.J. Pratt: A New Interpretation (1956).
John Sutherland

Sutton, Harold [Hal]

Sword, Colin
* Born (1880) in England, Sword was a prominent Toronto Insurance executive. He and Pratt were fellow members of York Downs Golf Club.

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Tamblyn, William Ferguson
Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario 1901–49, and head of the department for 43 years

Taylor
Unidentified

Thomas, H.F. Scott
(1897–1947) Graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Johns Hopkins, Thomas was a member of the Department of English at Acadia University from 1927 until his death.

Thompson, Jimmy [Cannonball]
British-born golfer, famous as a long hitter. He was runner-up in the U.S. Open Golf Championship in 1935, and in the Canadian Open in 1936.

Thompson, Irving

Thomson, D.W.

Thomson, Terry
Wife of D.W. Thompson

Thorvaldsen, Thorbergur
(1883–1965) Born in Iceland, educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard, Thorvaldson was Head of Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan 1919–48, Dean of Graduate Studies 1946–9.

Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
(1876–1963) A member of the Department of English at Yale University, the author of several books about James Boswell, and Keeper of Rare Books at Sterling Memorial Library (Yale).

Tirol, Marcel
A professor of French at Queen's University. ("Sooreroous" refers to Professor J.A. Surerus of the German Department at Victoria College.)

Titchener, E.B.

Tolkien, J.R.R.
(1892–1973) Best known as the author of The Hobbit (London: G. Allen and Unwin 1937) and The Fellowship of the Ring, a trilogy that included the The Lord of the Rings (London: G. Allen and Unwin 1954), Tolkien was in 1924 Reader (Lecturer) in English at Leeds University. He was subsequently for many years a professor at Oxford. R.S. Knox in a letter to D.G. Pitt (9 November 1967) describes the occasion of Pratt's dinner with Tolkien thus: "... the three of us [Pratt, Davis, and himself] were Professor Tolkien's guests at Pembroke College [Oxford] where to Ned's delight we had a lively chat as we drank beer with the College porter in his lodge. We had dinner later with George Gordon and Tolkien in the Randolph Hotel, Gordon at the piano leading us in song, varied in kind — a jolly evening ..."

Trimble, Lydia Ella
(1890–1912) Born near Essex, Ontario, Lydia Trimble grew up in Red Deer, Alberta, and came to Victoria College in 1908. She and Pratt were very much in love, and became engaged. However, she died of "galloping consumption" on June 3, 1912 shortly before her graduation.
Lydia Trimble, 1912

Tucker, Gilbert
(b.1896) A graduate of the Universities of Western Ontario, Cambridge, and London, Tucker was a professor of History at Yale when in 1941 he was appointed Director of the Naval Historical Section, Ottawa, where he served until 1948.

Tweedsmuir, Lady
Wife of Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan)

Tweedsmuir, Lord [John Buchan]
Governor-General of Canada (1875–1940)

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Udell, ??
Secretary and assistant to George Dillon, editor of Poetry

Underhill, Frank H.

Upjohn, Frank
(b.l908) Editor-administrator at Macmillan, Upjohn joined the firm in 1931 as Assistant Manager (Educational Department); he later became Manager of the General Books and Assistant Manager of the Company.

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Van Doren, Mark
(1894–1972) American poet, critic and anthologist, and a professor at Columbia University

Varley, Frederick H.
(1881–1969) Varley came to Canada from Sheffield, England in 1912 at the urging of Arthur Lismer, and joined the Grip design firm where he worked with Tom Thompson. In 1920, he was a founding member of the Group of Seven. At Pratt's request, Varley was engaged by Ryerson Press to design the end-paper and decorations for his first book of poems, Newfoundland Verse,

self-portrait, painted after service in World War I as an offical "war artist"

end-paper for Newfoundland Verse

title page of Newfoundland Verse

Vey, Ted
A Newfoundland acquaintance of Pratt

Villeneuve, Cardinal

Vincent, Agnes

Vincent, Charles J.
(1906–68) Educated at the Universities of Western Ontario and Harvard, Vincent taught English at Queen's University from 1937 to 1962.

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Walker, Edmund M.
(b. 1877) Retired as Professor of Zoology and Head of the Department at the University of Toronto in 1948. He and Pratt were fellow members of the Arts and Letters Club.

Walker, Ernest W.
Manager of the Wholesale Department at Ryerson in 1923

Walker, Stanley
Born (1890) and educated in England, he had been Professor of History at King's College in Nova Scotia since 1923 and President since 1937.

Wallace, Reverend Dr. Francis H.
(1851–1930) Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Literature and Dean of Theology (1900–20) at Victoria College. He had been Pratt's teacher during his undergraduate years. The Wallaces were good friends to Pratt, taking a special interest in his slowly burgeoning poetic talents.

Wallace, Joy [nιe Wilson]
An American by birth, she was the wife of the Reverend Dr. Francis H. Wallace

Wallace, Malcolm
(1873–1960) Born in Essex County, Ontario, graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Chicago, Wallace was Professor of English at University College, Toronto, and Head of Department (1926–44). He is chiefly remembered for his Life of Sir Philip Sidney (1915). He and Pratt were golf and stag-party cronies for more than thirty years.

Wallace, Paul A.W.
(1891–1967) One of the F.H. Wallaces' two sons. He had literary ambitions, publishing The Twist and Other Stories (Toronto: Ryerson, 1923), Baptiste Larocque (Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1923) and Selections from Sam Slick by Thomas Chadler Haliburton (Toronto: Ryerson, 1923) before moving to the United States where he was to become a Professor of English at Lebanon Valley College and a prominent Pennsylvanian historian.

Wallace, Robert C.
(1881–1950) President of the University of Alberta (1928–36) and Principal of Queen's University (1936–51). His A Liberal Education in a Modern World was published by Macmillan in 1931.

Wallis, Mrs.
Unidentified

Walsh, Sir Albert

Walton, Isaac

Warr, Bertram
(1917–1943) Warr was attending the University of London when he was drafted into the Royal Air Force in 1941. He was killed in action at the age of twenty-five. He published little verse in his short lifetime, but in 1950 his best poems were published in In Quest of Beauty: Selected Poems.

Watson, A.D.

Watson, James Wreford
(b.l915) Watson wrote under the name Wreford. He was Professor of Geography at McMaster University, and later joined the Federal Geographical Bureau. Some of his poems appeared in Unit of Five (1944), a collection of verse by five young poets, including P.K. Page. Of Time and the Lover (1950) won him a Governor-General's award for poetry.

Watson, William

Watt, F.W.

Weaver, Raymond

Weaver, Robert

Webster, Daniel

Webster, Gordon
Probably Gordon Webster (b.l899), a Montreal lawyer, friend of Leo Cox

Wells, Henry W.
(b.1895) An American critic who lectured in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He and the Canadian critic Carl Klinck co-authored the first book-length study of E.J. Pratt, Edwin J. Pratt: The Man and His Poetry (1947).

Wells, Katharine
Wife of Henry W. Wells

Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
(1850–1945) A surveyor and mountaineer, Wheeler founded the Alpine Club of Canada in 1906 and was its President for several years.

Whitehead, Armand

Whitney, Hager
Brother of Viola Pratt, Like Pratt and many of his university acqauintances, both Hagar and his widowed mother were cheated out of their savings by Jack Neville in the autumn of 1926 (The Truant Years 336). Hagar Whitney's belief in 'the presence of departed "spirits" around us' influenced Pratt's own investigations into spiritualism. (See The Master Years, 9.)

Whitney, Harvie
Son of Viola Pratt's brother, Karl Whitney

Whitney, Karl
Brother of Viola Pratt, Karl Whitney was a school teacher living in Francis, Saskatchewan.

Whitney, Phyllis
Daughter of Viola Pratt's brother, Karl Whitney

Whitney, Ralph
Brother of Viola Pratt, Ralph Whitney lived in Red Deer, Alberta.

Whitney, Rita
Wife of Karl Whitney

Whytall, Marian
A friend of Ida Pashley and Claire Pratt; a founding member of the Talents Service Club

Wiegand, William B.
(b.l888) A classmate of Pratt at Victoria College, Weigand was celebrated as a tennis player, and had lived for some years in New York.

Wilkinson, Anne
(1910–1961) Born in Toronto, Wilkinson published two books of poetry, Counterpoint to Sleep (1951) and The Hangman Ties the Holly (1955). She wrote also Lions in the Way (1956), the story of the family of Sir William Osler from which she was descended on her mother's side. She was a founding editor of The Tamarack Review.

Wilkinson Frederick Hugh
(b. 1896) Coadjutor Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto

Wilkinson, Robert [Rob]
Doctor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto

Willan, Healey
(1880–1968) Born in England, Willan taught music at the Toronto Conservatory, and was organist and choirmaster at the Church of St Mary Magdalene (1921–68). His chief claim to fame is as a musical composer.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
(1824–1907) British scientist, noted for, among other things, his work on electric oscillations, which formed the basis of wireless telegraphy, and on submarine telegraphy

Willis, J. Frank

Wilson, Dr.
One of Claire Pratt's doctors in New York in 1954–5

Wilton, Margaret H.
A Toronto writer who published in various magazines

Winspear, Mary

Winter, Ross M.
(1903–68) Director of Extension at Queen's University from 1934 to 1945

Whitefield, Dora
Wife of Hugh Eayrs

Whitehead, Armand
A friend and bowling partner of Pratt in the mid-1950s when Malcolm Wallace had persuaded him to take up lawn bowling.

Woodhouse, A.S.P. [Arthur]
(1895–1964) Woodhouse was a member of the Department of English at University College (Toronto) from 1929 until his death, and served as head of Department from 1945 onwards. In the 1930s, he and E.K. Brown co-edited the University of Toronto Quarterly. His scholarly work was in Renaissance literature and the history of ideas. A major book on Milton, edited by Hugh MacCallum, was published posthumously as The Heavenly Muse: A Preface to Milton (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1972).

Woodman, Freda Maud
R.S. (Bobby) Knox married Freda Woodman in 1926

Woodrow, Constance
(1899–1937) Her The Captive Gypsy had been published as a Ryerson chapbook in 1926. She had also previously published another book of poems, The Celtic Heart (1929).

Woodside, Moffatt
(b.1906) A graduate of the University of Toronto and Oxford University, Professor of Ancient History at Victoria College and in 1944–52 its Registrar. He was subsequently University Dean of Arts (1952–57) and in 1959 was appointed Principal of University College.

Woodsworth, J.S.

Wordsworth, William

Workman, George

Wreford, James
The pseudonym under which James Wreford Watson published his poetry

Writers' Club, The Toronto
The club was '... founded in 1923 by Elton Jonson and Jack Charlesworth to take the place of the Toronto Men's Press Club, which had never lasted long in any of its incarnations.' W.A. Deacon was vice-president in 1930, and 'became president in October 1931. Among the club's members were E.J. Pratt, Bertram Brooker, Merrill Denison, C.W. Jefferys, Wilson MacDonald, Gordon Sinclair, and Charles G.D. Roberts. Initially a business and social organization, the Club had also developed commercial ambitions. In the fall of 1930, its Marketing Committee prepared the 312-page Canadian Writers' Market Survey, an inventory of writing markets in the English-speaking world, of Canadian periodicals, and of non-Canadian periodicals suitable to Canadian writers.' [Clara Thomas and John Lennox, William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982), 135–6)] The Club members presented plays and readings, and published a satiric newsletter, The Shovel, and in 1931 many — including Pratt, with 'The Fly-Wheel' (Pursuits Amateur and Academic 59–65) — contributed to a collection of essays protesting Canadian literary and political conservativism, Open House, edited by W.A. Deacon and Wilfred Reeves.

Wrong, George MacKinnon
(1860–1948) Ordained as an Anglican priest, Wrong lectured in ecclesiastical history at Wycliffe College, Toronto. He was head of the Department of History at the University of Toronto from 1894–1927.

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Young, Ewart

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