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1872–1943
Best known for Irish Ned, the Winnipeg Newsy, this early 20th-century writer brought Winnipeg street life onto the page with warmth and sympathy. His fiction has an old-fashioned, humane feel that still makes its young hero easy to care about.
by Samuel Fea
Samuel Fea was a Canadian author and clergyman best known for Irish Ned, the Winnipeg Newsy, first published in 1910. Contemporary editions identify him as The Rev. Samuel Fea, M.A., Ph.D., and as Rector of St. Peter's, Winnipeg, which helps place the novel in the world he knew.
Irish Ned follows a newspaper-selling boy in Winnipeg and is remembered for its concern with hardship, faith, and everyday kindness. Surviving catalog and public-domain records suggest that this is the work Fea is chiefly known for today.
Some later online records give conflicting details about his death year, so it is safest to say that he was born in 1872 and died in the 1940s. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait from the sources I found, so no profile image is included.