Welcome to BC?s frontier days, when loggers and laundresses penned poetry, and entertainment consisted of reciting verse 'round the fire.
The Old Red Shirt is a rollicking collection of old?fashioned pioneer poetry. Selected by longtime amateur BC historian Yvonne Klan, the poems address the social issues of the day, teach moral lessons, and reflect the unique atmosphere of the province?s early days.
Klan?s lively and informative prose introduces us to the larger?than?life characters behind the verses. Read about Dr. George Dawson, Dawson Creek?s namesake, a hunchbacked man who explored the province and penned surprisingly delicate poetry about geography and rocks.
Shed a tear for John Fraser, son of Simon, who lost his fortune to the Caribou Gold Rush and slit his own throat at the age of 32. Shout "hurrah" for the hurdy?gurdy lasses as they play havoc with the hearts of the gold?digging lads.
The Old Red Shirt is by turns colourful, tragic and funny.
The Old Red Shirt is Number 12 in the Transmontanus series edited by Terry Glavin.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 811/.30809711
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459312043 1554200067
- LCCN
- PR9190.2
- LCCN Item number
- O43 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (109 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603199 (OCoLC)288076587 (CaOOCEL)409288
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 14
- Caribou Medicine Song: TRADITIONAL 18
- Paddling Song: TRADITIONAL 20
- Song of the Voyageurs: TRADITIONAL 21
- A Farewell Ditty: THE ROYAL ENGINEERS 22
- Hurrah, Boys, the River's Ours: ANONYMOUS 25
- The Rape of the Boot: UNKNOWN 26
- Two Poems: WALTER MOBERLY 28
- Invitation to Return Home: EMMA B. MOBERLY 29
- Answer, W. to E: WALTER MOBERLY 29
- Tribute to Walter Moberly: "HIS OLDEST FRIEND" 30
- The Dog "Fraser": HUDIBRAS 32
- Epitaph on the Dog Fraser: NOT HUDIBRAS 33
- In Memoriam: HUDIBRAS 34
- `My whisky's gone and credit, too': "HODGE" 35
- Graham and Cataline: MIKE TUOHY 38
- Captain Nind's Steed: ANONYMOUS 39
- The Miner to His Claim: JOHN A. FRASER 40
- The Broken Miner: JOHN A. FRASER 42
- The German Lasses: JAMES ANDERSON 43
- The Prospector's Shanty: JAMES ANDERSON 44
- Waiting for the Mail: JAMES ANDERSON 46
- Lines to the Telegraph: TAL O. EIFON 47
- The Old Red Shirt: REBECCA GIBBS 48
- On the Lillooet Road: ARTHUR MARTLEY [?] 51
- The Wraith of the Trail: ARTHUR CHAPMAN 53
- The House of Wend: LEONARD NORRIS 54
- 'Long have I roamed these dreary plains': J. H. SECRETAN 56
- The Pathfinder: J. N. J. BROWN 57
- The Call: R. ALPINE MCGREGOR 58
- Four Poems: GEORGE MERCER DAWSON 60
- To Dr. George: CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY 61
- Father Pat: GEORGE WINKLER 63
- On the West Kettle River Road: GEORGE WINKLER 64
- The Start: WILLIAM RIDLEY, D. D. 65
- Mr. Doolan's Lament: ERL VIKING [JOHN MARTLEY] 67
- An Old-Time Dance at Carson's: ARTHUR MAITLAND STEPHEN 69
- This Green and Gracious Land: ELIZA JANE SWALWELL 71
- The Fruit Rancher: LLOYD ROBERTS 72
- 'Over the mountain trails we tramped': FRED NASH 73
- Drought: ERIC DUNCAN 75
- An Ox Song: ERIC DUNCAN 75
- Unreasonable: ERIC DUNCAN 76
- The Burning of the Guns: PETER DIACHKOFF 78
- Weary Willie's Ordeal: ROBERT T. ANDERSON 80
- Welcome to Lord and Lady Aberdeen: MOUNTAINEER 81
- 'Well, I'll be blow'd, if since I have been here': MUDLARK 83
- 'This monument upon the primal page': ROBERT THORNTON LOWERY 83
- Printer's Poetry: ROBERT THORNTON LOWERY 84
- In the Cold Green Mountains: HAMLIN GARLAND 85
- The Poor Man's Trail: UNKNOWN 87
- Mush, You Malemutes, Mush: SPERRY "DUTCH" CLINE 89
- 'His clothes are wet, his face is froze': PETE CURRAN 90
- The Astronomer: EARL K. POLLON 91
- The Lament of the Graham Islanders: ANONYMOUS 93
- Waiting: GEORGE MCINNIS 95
- Sitka Spruce: DANIEL HATT 96
- The Fallers: DANIEL HATT 96
- The Davis Raft: ROBERT H. CHESTNUT 97
- John Campbell's Shack: ROBERT H. CHESTNUT 99
- The Call of the British Columbia Forests: MRS. B. E. WARD 101
- The Nitinat Bar: PERCY E. WILLIS 102
- Sealing In the Behring Sea: ANONYMOUS 104
- The Bank Trollers: W. B. BERTRAND SINCLAIR 105
- Kite Song: ANONYMOUS 107
- Come Into The Garden, Lady: ANONYMOUS 108
- Musings: M. P. JUDGE 109
