The Man From Glengarry; A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

The Man From Glengarry; A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon used the pen name Ralph Connor when writing his novels in order to preserve his status as a church leader. At the beginning of the First World War, in 1915 he became Chaplain of the 43rd (Cameron Highlanders) Battalion. He later became Senior Chaplain for the Canadian forces in England and then in France. Some of his books include Black Rock, The Man from Glengarry and Glengarry School Days. The romance and color of life in Upper Canada in the decade of Confederation is captured in this novel, which tells of stouthearted yet wild Highlanders of Glengarry, the daring shantymen of Ottawa, and the forests, the farms and the streams themselves.

Ralph Connor was born in 1860 in Indian Lands, Glengarry County, Canada West (later Ontario) as Charles William Gordon. In 1883, he graduated with a B.D. from the University of Toronto. In 1887, he graduated from Knox College in Toronto. He was ordained as a Presbyterian preacher three years later in Calgary, and then proceeded to Banff to serve as a missionary to the area's lumbercamps and mining communities. He went to Winnipeg's Saint Stephen's Church in 1894, where he remained for the rest of his life as pastor.

The Revered Charles William Gordon created fictional sketches for the Presbyterian periodical The Westminster in order to raise funds for his missionary efforts. He quickly rose to prominence as Canada's bestselling author, both at home and abroad, using the pen name Ralph Connor. Black Rock (1898), a collection of his early sketches, sold five million copies, together with his following two books, The Sky Pilot (1899) and The Man from Glengarry (1901). The inspiration for Connor's fiction came from his outdoor faith.

His protagonists are frequently clergymen and other representatives of established civilization who minister to the needs of frontier societies. In 1937, Ralph Connor died in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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ISBN 13	9781017101799
ISBN 10	1017101795
Title	The Man From Glengarry; A Tale of the Ottawa
Author	Ralph Connor
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Publisher	Legare Street Press
Year published	2022-10-27
Number of pages	472
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