Queen’s University Archives

CA QUA09968
Corporate body
fl. 1920s

Santway Photo Craft Co., Watertown, N.Y.

CA QUA00204
Person
1863-1952

Philosopher, poet, literary and cultural critic. Principle figure in Classical American Philosophy.

CA QUA01030
Family
n.d.

Charles Sangster was born at Navy Bay, Kingston, Upper Canada in 1822. He served with the loyalist forces in the MacKenzie uprising in 1837. He developed a taste for writing in his early twenties and became editor of a small newspaper, "The Courier", in Amherstburg. He returned to Kingston, became a sub-editor of the "British Whig", and later a reporter on the "Daily News". He early turned to poetry and published verse in such journals as the "Literary Garland", Barker's "Canadian Monthly Magazine", and "The Anglo-American Magazine". In 1856, his first book of poetrry, "The St. Lawrence and The Saguenay and Other Poems", was issued simultaneously in Kingston and New York. Four years later, another volume appeared entitled "Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics". He died in 1893 at Kingston, Ontario.

Sandwell, Bernard Keble

CA QUA00564
Person
1876-1954

B.K. Sandwell (1876-1954) was born in Ipswich, England and came to Canada as a child. He was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto (B.A. 1897). In 1905 he was the drama critic at the Montreal Herald and, later, editor of the Financial Times. He taught economics at McGill University before becoming the head of the Department of English Literature at Queen's University. Sandwell served as Rector of Queen's University from 1944 to 1947. From 1932 to 1951 he was the contributing Editor of Saturday Night. He died in 1954.

Sands, W.W.