T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Young

Thomas Frederick Young was a Canadian author and poet who died in 1940. The clearest surviving record of his work is Canada and Other Poems, published in 1887 by Hunter, Rose & Co.

In the preface to that book, he said he wanted to do something for his country through literature, which gives a good sense of his outlook. The collection includes patriotic poems, pieces on nature, and poems on subjects such as Niagara Falls, Nova Scotia, Louis Riel, the North-West Rebellion, and Robert Burns.

That same preface is dated from Port Albert in March 1887, offering one small glimpse of where he was writing at the time. Reliable biographical details about his personal life appear to be scarce online, so his reputation today rests mainly on the poems themselves and on their place in early Canadian literary history.