Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Wilson Pugsley MacDonald fonds
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
[ca. 1923]-1951 (Creation)
- Creator
- MacDonald, Wilson Pugsley
Physical description area
Physical description
0.06 m of textual records
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Wilson Pugsley MacDonald (1880-1967) was a poet based in Toronto, Ontario. MacDonald was born on May 5, 1880, in Cheapside, Ont. He attended Woodstock College and McMaster University and began publishing poetry in newspapers in 1899, often under the pseudonym Frederick MacLean. He worked as a sailor, teacher, reporter, and actor, among other jobs, until his first book, "Song of the Prairie Land and Other Poems," appeared in 1918. After that, he spent his life writing poetry and giving poetry readings and lectures throughout Canada and the United States. He died on April 8, 1967, in Toronto.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The fonds consists of a letter, dated 1929 Sept. 25, to Mr. Mackenzie, typescripts with holographic annotations for The House of Rebels and other poems, The song of the Undertow, and a typescript of Chapters 1 and 7 of the Castle of Graymoor.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Song of the Undertow purchased through the Edith Chown Pierce Trust. Subesequently transferred from Special Collections Unit, Douglas Library, Queen's University to the Archives.
Arrangement
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Location of originals
2055 - Box 14
2999 (MacDonald)
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Open
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
None
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
No further accruals are expected