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Frederick George Scott
1861–1944
An Anglican priest, wartime chaplain, and poet, he became known as the “Poet of the Laurentians” for verse shaped by Quebec landscapes, faith, and patriotism. His writing joined nature observation with spiritual feeling and a strong sense of Canada in a changing era.
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, Frederick George Scott was a Canadian poet and Anglican clergyman whose work became closely tied to the St. Lawrence and Laurentian regions of Quebec. He studied at Bishop’s College, was ordained in the 1880s, and went on to serve for many years as rector of St. Matthew’s Church in Quebec City.
Scott was associated with the Confederation Poets, and his poems often blend landscape, religious belief, and national feeling. He published numerous books of verse, and readers especially remembered him for poems that treat rivers, forests, and seasons as windows into spiritual and emotional life.
During the First World War, he served as a senior chaplain with the Canadian forces, an experience that deepened the public image of him as both priest and patriot. He died in 1944, leaving behind a body of work that reflects an older Canada with warmth, solemnity, and vivid attention to place.