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Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas

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Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas (1860–1943), Canadian poet, novelist, editor, and university professor, after the popular success of his history of Canada (1897) and other writings moved to New York to devote himself to literature. He published several volumes of poetry, but was best known for his historical fiction for children and adults, including The Raid from Beauséjour (1894), A Sister to Evangeline (1898), Barbara Ladd (1902), The Watchers of the Trails (1904), Red Fox (1905), and Haunters of the Silences (1907).

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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860–1943, Canadian author, b. New Brunswick. He was the first Canadian to be knighted for his work as a writer. He wrote over 67 works, of which the best-known are Orion (1880), Divers Tones (1886), Selected Poems (1936), and other volumes of lyrics and idyls; such tales of wildlife as Watchers of the Trails (1904) and Hoof and Claw (1913); and a popular History of Canada (1897).

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