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William Douw Lighthall

1857–1954


William Douw Lighthall (1857–1954) was a Montreal lawyer, author and civic reformer, later mayor of Westmount, who edited a series of anthologies of Canadian poetry.

His own verse appeared in Thoughts, Moods and Ideals (1887); the poems here are those he included in his own anthology, Songs of the Great Dominion (1889).

  1. National Hymn
  2. Canada Not Last
  3. The Caughnawaga Beadwork-Seller
  4. The Pioneers
  5. The Battle of La Prairie
  6. Montreal
  7. The Confused Dawn
  8. Picken of Beaver Hall, what modest hand
  9. Praeterita ex Instantibus

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