" He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.
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Shortly after ordination, 1886
Staff officers of 1st Canadian Division, 1918. (Front row): Lieut-Col J. Parsons, Brig-Gen H. Thacker, Maj-Gen A. MacDonell, Lieut-Col J. Sutherland Brown, Col H. Wright. (Back row): Lieut-Col H. Hertzberg, Hon. Lieut-Col F.G. Scott, Lieut J. Macdonnell.
On his horse Dandy, France 1916.
Standing by the grave of his son Henry, Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, 20 August 1918. Photograph by Australian war correspondent Charles Bean.Awards 1
Writers from Canada 6
About this person
Frederick George Scott was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.
Country
CanadaCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1861 to 1944 · aged 82
Written about in
3 languages
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