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Frederick George Scott
1861–1944
An Anglican priest, war chaplain, and poet, he became known as the “Poet of the Laurentians” for verse that joined Canadian landscapes with religious feeling. His life moved between parish work in Quebec, literary circles, and the front lines of the First World War.
2 Audiobooks
The Great War As I Saw It
by Frederick George Scott
My Lattice, and Other Poems
by Frederick George Scott
About the author
Born in Montreal in 1861, he studied at Bishop’s College and was ordained in the Anglican Church in the 1880s. He spent much of his career in Quebec City, serving for decades at St. Matthew’s Church, while also building a reputation as a poet whose work drew on faith, nature, and Canadian life.
He was associated with the Confederation Poets and published many volumes of verse, earning lasting recognition as the “Poet of the Laurentians.” His writing often blended close observation of the natural world with spiritual reflection, and it helped shape an early sense of Canadian literary identity.
During the First World War, he served overseas as a chaplain with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, an experience that deeply marked both his life and his writing. He died in 1944, remembered in Canada as both a clergyman and a literary figure whose poems linked devotion, patriotism, and place.