Charles Sangster

Charles Sangster (1822–1893) was born in Kingston, Upper Canada, and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He is often called the first important native-born Canadian poet.

His principal books are The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and Other Poems (1856) and Hesperus, and Other Poems and Lyrics (1860). One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.