J. R. (John Richardson) Wilkinson

John Richardson Wilkinson was a Canadian author best known for Canadian Battlefields and Other Poems, published in 1899. Book records also identify him as Lieut.-Col. J. R. Wilkinson, linking his literary work with a military career.

Available records indicate that he lived from 1837 to 1908. The combination of poetry and military title suggests a writer shaped by public service as well as literature, and his surviving work points to an interest in Canadian places, battles, and patriotic themes.

Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, Wilkinson remains a notable example of a late 19th-century Canadian writer whose work brought together verse, memory, and national history.