Charles Sangster

Charles Sangster (1822-1893), born near Kingston, in Upper Canada, the son of a carpenter at the Point Frederick naval yard, was raised by his mother with his four brothers and sisters. He left school at fifteen, entered the Fort Henry arsenal where he made cartridges during the rebellion of 1837, then turned to journalism: editor of a weekly in Amherstburg, proofreader and bookkeeper at the British Whig of his home town. Having joined the post office in 1868, he blamed this work for the decline of his verse. Ill from the end of the sixties, he died in Kingston.

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• PoetryThe St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and Other PoemsCharles Sangster · 1856LiteraturePublic domain