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Howard Angus Kennedy

1861–1938

A British-born Canadian journalist and historian, he wrote vividly about the Canadian West and helped bring frontier history to a wider audience.

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The Book of the West

The Book of the West

by Howard Angus Kennedy

About the author

Born in England in 1861, he later made his career in Canada as a journalist and historian. Reliable sources identify him as a British-born Canadian writer whose work focused on western Canada and its past.

He is especially remembered for historical and regional writing about the prairies and frontier life, combining a reporter’s eye for detail with a storyteller’s sense of place. That background helped make his books useful to readers interested in both history and the growth of the Canadian West.

He died on February 15, 1938. A suitable verified portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I could confirm here, so none is included.