L'Envoy

Alexander MacGregor Rose 1846 (Tomantoul, Banffshire) – 1898 (Montreal)



I t'ink for dis Canadian lan'
      For mak' it t'rive an' grow,
  De bes' ees Wilfrid Laurier's smile,
      De wors' de Tupper blow.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 139
Words 25
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

Alexander MacGregor Rose

Alexander Macgregor Rose was a 19th century Scottish-born poet, journalist, Free Church minister and teacher who lived the last twenty years or so of his life in first New York City and then in two Canadian cities. He moved first to Toronto and then spent the last two years of his life in Montreal. He was born on the 17th August 1846 in the small town of Tomantoul, Banffshire which is in the far north of Scotland. He received a good education and attended the University of Aberdeen, graduating from there at the age of 21. Within three years he was Master of the Free Church School in the Ross-shire town of Gairloch. His faith though was strong enough to fuel ambitions to be a minister of the church and he gave up teaching, returning to Aberdeen for a four-year course of study in Divinity. Tragedy struck in 1898 when Rose suffered a suspected paralytic stroke. He died at the Notre Dame hospital in Montreal on the 10th May 1898, aged 51. more…

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