Kate Eastman fonds. 1905-1968.

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Kate Eastman fonds. 1905-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606462404

The fonds consists of correspondence, autographed poems, photographs, programms, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia of Eastman and of her friends (including Bliss Carman, George Fallis, Ernest Fewster, and Noel Robinson), many of whom were connected with the Vancouver Poetry Society.

53 cm of textual records.91 photographs.

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781946

University of British Columbia Library

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Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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(William) Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet and editor. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Harvard. He is usually grouped with the Confederation Poets, who developed a distinctively Canadian poetic voice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet this identification with the Confederation group is somewhat misleading as Carman spent much of his life in New England and many readers assumed that he was American. Carman ed...

Robinson, Noel

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Vancouver Poetry Society

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Fewster, Ernest Philip, 1868-1947.

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Ernest Fewster was a doctor and poet as well as a member of the Vagabond Club of Vancouver. Born in England, Fewster came with his family first to Manitoba in 1887, and then to Vancouver in 1888. He studied medicine at the University of Chicago and then began his practice in Vancouver as a therapeutic specialist in 1911. In 1916 he began the Vancouver Poetry Society, of which he was president. As a writer, Fewster published six books, five of poetry and one of essays and poems. From ...

Eastman, Katherine Isabel.

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Katherine Eastman was born in Ontario. In 1907 she became an elementary school teacher. After an interlude of managing the poet Bliss Carman, whose 1923- 1924 transcontinental tour she directed, she returned to teaching, settling in Vancouver. Through Carmen, Eastman met Ernest Fewster, founder of the Vancouver Poetry Society and became an active member of the society. From the description of Kate Eastman fonds. 1905-1968. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id:...

Fallis, George Oliver, 1885-1952.

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