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Watson Kirkconnell

Watson Kirkconnell (1895-1977) was an army officer, a professor emeritus of Latin and English, ninth president of Acadia University (1948-1964), a Milton scholar, author of many volumes of prose and poetry, historian, and genealogist. He was also the joint founder of the Federal Citizenship Branch (1940), the Humanities Research Council of Canada (1943) and the Baptist Federation of Canada (1944). In 1936 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Books by Watson Kirkconnell

Pan Tadeusz

The Celestial Cycle

Centennial Tales and Selected Poems

That Invincible Samson

A Slice of Canada

Awake the Courteous Echo