author
Harry Jeffs
1860–1938
A British journalist and religious editor, he wrote with a practical eye for everyday life and opportunity. His best-known work for modern readers, Homes and Careers in Canada, reflects an early-20th-century interest in migration, work, and settlement.
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Homes and Careers in Canada
by Harry Jeffs
About the author
Born in Warwick in 1860, Harry Jeffs built his career in journalism and appears to have been largely self-taught. Reference sources describe him as a journalist and editor who worked on regional papers before moving into London religious publishing.
He is especially associated with the Christian World and Christian World Pulpit, which he edited for many years. Sources also connect him with Nonconformist and Liberal religious circles, and with writing meant for a broad general readership rather than a narrowly academic one.
Among his surviving books, Homes and Careers in Canada is the one most likely to interest today's listeners. Published in the early 1900s, it presents Canada as a place of possibility for settlers and workers, while also showing Jeffs's clear, informative style. He died in 1938.