Roberts, Charles George Douglas (1860–1943)

Canadian poet, short-story writer, and novelist. He is known as ‘the father of Canadian literature’. His early Orion, and Other Poems (1880) influentially demonstrated that Canadian poets could creatively assimilate Tennysonian Romanticism, but later volumes such as The Vagrant of Time (1927) developed a more modern idiom. His 24 volumes of short fiction, starting with Earth's Enigmas (1896), included some of the first and most realistic animal stories as well as tales of outdoor adventure. Knighted in 1935.

He also wrote historical romances such as Barbara Ladd 1902, set during the American Revolution.