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MacDonald, Wilson
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Description area
Dates of existence
1880 - 1967
History
Wilson MacDonald was a poet from Cheapside, Ontario, born in 1880. He began publishing poetry in the Toronto Globe in 1899. In 1902, he graduated from McMaster University. His first collection of poetry, Song of the Prairie Land, was published in 1918. He began touring Canada in the 1920s, and published his most popular book, Out of the Wilderness, in 1926. He retired in 1953, and passed away in 1967 in Toronto.