[104] John Hunter Duvar, b. August 29, 1830; d. January, 1899. Of Scoto-English birth and education. He lived the greater part of his life in Canada, serving as Lt.-Col. of the 3rd Brigade Halifax Garrison Artillery, and later in command of Prince County, Prince Edward Island Battalion of active militia. For ten years he was Dominion Inspector of Fisheries for the Province of Prince Edward Island. Author of The Enamorado, a drama, 1878; Roberval, a drama, 1888; The Emigration of the Fairies and The Triumph of Constancy, a romaunt. He has written other works, also: The Judgment of Osiris, The Enchanted Mooress, and Annals of the Court of Oberon. His characteristic is very marked,—the romantic with a bias towards the mystic. Respecting the poem in the text, beginning "In the Rheingan standeth Aix," it may be remarked that it is a matter of history that the crowned corpse of Charlemagne sat in the crypt of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, until 1166, when the tomb was opened and the chair taken away by the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Mr Duvar resided at "Hernewood," Fortune Cove, Prince Edward Island.
[109] Rev. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, b. at Kentville, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Harvard University. Author of Acadian Legends and Lyrics, 1889; and of several prose works, among them The Church of England in Nova Scotia, and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution; and Tales of a Garrison Town (collaborated with C. L. Betts). He has in preparation a History of the People of Nova Scotia. Resides in New York.
[116] Sir James David Edgar, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, b. at Hatley, Quebec, August 10, 1841. Author of This Canada of Ours, and Other Poems, 1893; and of Canada and its Capital, prose, 1898. Died July 31, 1899, at Toronto.
[117] Constance Fairbanks, b. at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, May 10, 1866. She edited, in conjunction with Mr H. Piers, the volume of the poems of the late Mrs Lawson. Writer of occasional verse in the Magazines. Resides at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[118] Joseph Kearney Foran, b. at Aylmer, Quebec, 1857. Educated at the University of Ottawa. A journalist. Author of Poems and Canadian Lyrics, 1895, also of a prose work, The Spirit of the Age; Faith and Infidelity. Resides in Montreal.
[120] William Henry Fuller, b. at Ramsgate, England. Came to Canada in the early seventies. Author of a local burlesque, H.M.S. Parliament, and other plays; Ye Ballad of Lyttel John A; and several essays and brochures. Resides at Ottawa.
[121] Rev. Alexander Rae Garvie, b. at Vilcoy Estate, Demerara, British Guiana, January 6, 1839; d. at Montreal, March 5, 1874; buried at Chatham, New Brunswick. He was of Scotch parentage. His ministerial service was rendered chiefly, if not wholly, in the Maritime Provinces. A singularly interesting man. Thistledown, a posthumous volume of Poems and Essays, 1875.
[123] Pierce Stevens Hamilton, b. in, or near, Truro, Nova Scotia, 1826; d. in Halifax, February 1893. A journalist and versatile political writer. Author of The Feast of St Anne and Other Poems, 1890.
[126] Mrs S. Frances Harrison ("Seranus"), b. in Toronto upwards of thirty years ago, and educated in Toronto and Montreal. She is a musical critic, and has written widely for the Magazines, in prose and verse. Author of The Canadian Birth-Day Book, 1887; Pine, Rose and Fleur-de-Lis, 1891. Resides in Rosedale, Toronto.